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Union Sportsmen’s Alliance sponsors NASCAR giveaway
Buck hunting season starts Oct. 4
in Oregon, and as attention turns to
hunting, union members have a new
reason to join Union Sportsmen’s Al-
liance — a union hunting and fishing
group.
On Oct. 17, one randomly-selected
member will be given a weekend for
two of NASCAR racing at Texas Mo-
tor Speedway. The trip is sponsored
by the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance
and Beretta-USA, and includes air-
fare, three nights lodging, two tickets
to the fall 2008 Texas Motor Speed-
way races, plus VIP passes to the
Beretta private suite and pit passes,
and a brand-new U.S.-made Beretta
American Citizen shotgun.
The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance
was formed last year as a project of
the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation
Partnership (TRCP) for conservation-
minded union members, retirees and
their families who hunt, fish and ap-
preciate the outdoors. Members of
AFL-CIO affiliated unions and their
families can join online at
www.UnionSportsmen.org or by
phone at 1-877-USA-2211.
Thus far the group has 6,000 mem-
bers nationwide, including 58 in Ore-
gon and 146 in Washington.
For dues of $25 a year, members
get discounts on outdoor gear and
services; a year’s subscription to Pe-
tersen’s Hunting, In-Fisherman, or
Guns & Ammo magazine; full access
to MyTopo.com; and a $25 gift certifi-
cate for Beretta field gear. Members
also can access the members-only
portion of UnionSportsmen.org,
where they can buy, sell, and trade
gear and share tips on techniques and
spots to hunt and fish. And member-
IN MEMORIAM
Nick J. Mikatich, a union activist
from Pueblo, Colorado, died Sept. 11
of pancreatic cancer. He was 65. “Big
Nick,” as Mikatich was known, was a
familiar figure to many in the Portland
labor community for his efforts as a
“road warrior” during a six-year-long
United Steel Workers labor dispute at
Colorado Fuel & Iron — a subsidiary
of Portland-based Oregon Iron Works.
Mikatich spent 39 years at the rail
plant in Pueblo as a machine operator
and rank-and-file union member. He
and 1,100 co-workers went out on an
unfair labor practice strike in October
1997; three months later, it became a
lockout after the company refused an
unconditional offer of reinstatement.
Mikatich joined one of several
teams of workers that travelled the
country drumming up support for the
Q
strike. He spent a lot of time in Port-
land, where the company was head-
quartered.
When the labor dispute ended in
2004, the company agreed to full rein-
statement of the workers, and $100
million in back pay. Instead of return-
ing, Mikatich accepted an early retire-
ment offer. He then went to work for
the union and travelled across the
country fighting for the rights of work-
ers, including striking copper miners
at ASARCO in Hayden, Ariz., locked-
out pharmacy technicians at Medco in
Las Vegas, Nev., and striking nurses at
Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in
New Jersey.
Mikatich is survived by his wife
Kitty of Pueblo. His remains were cre-
mated and interred at Roselawn Ceme-
tery in Pueblo.
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Allied Workers, and Communication
Workers of America. Oct. 15 is the
ship dues support the TCRP, a nonpar-
tisan advocacy group that works to
preserve the traditions of hunting and
fishing by expanding access, preserv-
ing habitat, and ensuring funding for
state wildlife programs. Members are
automatically enrolled in TCRP and
get e-mail updates about the group’s
campaigns.
This year, the group helped win an
“Open Fields” provision in the Farm
Bill that Congress passed. That will
provide $50 million in incentives over
the next four years to get private
landowners to allow public hunting
and fishing access on their land, and
requires them to utilize best manage-
ment practices for fish and wildlife.
Two labor leaders sit on the TRCP
board — International Association of
Machinists (IAM) President Thomas
Buffenbarger and United Association
of Plumbers and Pipefitters President
William Hite. And nine unions are
charter members of the Union Sports-
men’s Alliance: United Steelworkers
of America, International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, IAM, Interna-
tional Association of Fire Fighters,
United Association of Plumbers &
Pipefitters (UA), Sheet Metal Workers
International Association, Interna-
tional Union of Painters & Allied
Trades, Roofers, Waterproofers, &
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