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0-49 years (6 states)
50-99 years (18 states)
100-149 years (19 states)
150 years or more (7 states)
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
“Employment and Wages Annual Averages, 2005” and Occupa-
tional Safety and Health Administration IMIS data on worksite in-
spections FY 2006.
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Women in Trades Career Fair set for Saturday, May 1-3
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copper pipe at the 16th Annual Women
in Trades Career Fair, sponsored by
Oregon Tradeswomen Inc.
This year’s fair will be held May 1-
3 at the NECA-IBEW Local 48 Elec-
trical Training Center, 16021 NE Air-
port Way, Portland.
Saturday, May 3 is “Career Day,”
and the fair is open to the general pub-
lic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is
free of charge.
On May 1, middle-school students
will tour the fair, and May 2 is reserved
for high school students. An estimated
1,400 students from more than 50 mid-
dle and high schools across Oregon and
Southwest Washington will participate.
Connie Ashbrook, executive direc-
tor of Oregon Tradeswomen Inc., said
the fair provides an atmosphere where
girls are encouraged and supported by
adult female role models to explore
skilled living-wage careers in construc-
tion-related trades.The event allows
students and women to meet more than
70 employers, learn about apprentice-
ship programs, and community college
trades training, and participate in nu-
merous hands-on workshops and
demonstrations.
Free parking and child care are
available. For more information, call
503-335-8200, or go to their Web site
at www.tradeswomen.net.
Education conference will focus
on Oregon workers’ comp system
SALEM — An educational conference on Oregon’s workers’ compensation
system will be held May 14-15 at the Salem Conference Center.
The conference, sponsored by the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division
and the International Workers’Compensation Foundation, is geared for union rep-
resentatives, safety managers, employers, attorneys, injured workers and others.
Registration is $325 if postmarked by April 21.
For more information, contact Kara Olsen at 503-947-7515 or e-mail her at
kara.r.olsen@state.or.us.
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
TRI-CITIES, Wash. — Union con-
struction workers who spent any time
at all working at Hanford Reservation,
or at any of the hundreds of nuclear
weapons program sites in the U.S., are
eligible to receive a free medical
screening to see if they have been ex-
posed to life-threatening ailments.
The free service is provided through
the Building Trades National Medical
Screening Program (BTMed), which
started in 1996 in cooperation with the
Department of Energy. BTMed serves
union construction workers from 23
DOE sites, including Hanford, Idaho
National Engineering and Environ-
mental Laboratory in Scoville, and
Amchitka Test Site in Amchitka Island,
Alaska.
To date, 16,000 workers (out of
some 700,000) have been screened —
with more than 3,000 of those having
worked at Hanford.
Of the three key indicators of occu-
pational disease associated with work
at Hanford, BTMed has have found
that nearly 38 percent of participants
with X-rays have lung abnormalities;
more than 38 percent of those with
breathing tests have decreased lung ca-
pacity; 66 percent of those with a hear-
ing test have evidence of work-related
noise-induced hearing loss, and 2.7 per-
cent of those with a beryllium test have
evidence of sensitization.
If you worked at Hanford, call
Sherry Gosseen at the Hanford Out-
reach Office at 1-509-542-9347. If you
worked elsewhere, call BTMed at 1-
800-866-9663 or go online for more in-
formation at www.btmed.org.
Turner Construction
will stop work April
28 to honor dead
Turner Construction of Portland will
hold a moment of silence at all of its
jobsites first thing Monday morning,
April 28, to remember workers who
have been killed on the job.
April 28 is Workers Memorial Day.
It was established in 1989 by the AFL-
CIO to honor workers who have been
killed and/or injured on the job.
Turner has several large projects go-
ing in Oregon, including the Provi-
dence Cancer Center in Portland, Sa-
cred Heart Hospital in Eugene, and
Salem Hospital.
“We probably have a thousand
workers on our jobsites,” said Safety
Manager Alan Blood. “It’s a good time
to remember those who have been
killed on the job and to heighten aware-
ness of safety.”
At each jobsite the names of work-
ers killed job the job in Oregon in 2007
will be read.
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