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Endicott re-elected business
manager of UA Local 290
Officers installed at Columbia Pacific BCTC
Newly elected officers of the Columbia Pacific Building and Construction Trades Council are sworn in to office Jan.
7 by Bob Shiprack (left), executive secretary of the Oregon State BCTC. Officers from left to right are: Trustee Brett
Hinsley of Cement Masons Local 555; Trustee Tim Carrier of Painters District Council 5; President Jim Pauley of
Iron Workers Local 29; Executive Secretary-Treasurer John Mohlis of Bricklayers Local 1; Sergeant-at-arms
Herman Stonebraker of Plumbers and Fitters Local 290; and Trustee Dave Ritchey of Laborers Local 335. Not
pictured is Vice President Tim Foster of IBEW Local 48. Terms are for three years.
Labor Law Conference slated Feb. 27 at IBEW Hall
The 13th annual Oregon Labor Law
Conference will be held Friday, Feb.
27, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
IBEW Local 48 union hall, 15937 NE
Airport Way.
The event is sponsored by Local 48,
the Oregon AFL-CIO, the Oregon
State and Columbia-Pacific Building
Trades Councils, and the Northwest
Oregon Labor Council.
The conference organizer is Norm
Malbin, in-house attorney for Local
48. The conference is for business
managers, business agents and officers.
The goal is to provide information that
will help them do their job better and to
help avoid legal liability.
The number of participants is lim-
ited to 230. Registration is $85 and in-
cludes lunch and all materials. The
deadline to register is Jan. 30.
For more information, call Kristi
Straight at 503-889-3660 or Malbin at
503-889-3669.
John Endicott
has been re-elected
business manager
of Plumbers and
Fitters Local 290.
He defeated two
challengers — Al
Shropshire and
Frank Harju, cap- J OHN E NDICOTT
turing over 48 per-
cent of the votes.
Bill Hargrave was re-elected presi-
dent. He defeated Lyman Warnock 837-
433.
Terry Neely defeated incumbent vice
president Robert Porter 648-575, while
Kyle Stancliff and Drake Pilcher ran un-
opposed for recording secretary and in-
side guard, respectively.
Elected to the Executive Board were
John Kimberling and Teresa Neely in
Region 1; Dennis Mask in Region 2;
and Gary Barnes in Region 3.
Chris McNicholas, Dave Hauth and
Rick Hindman were re-elected to the Fi-
nance Committee while Shawn Mask
and Mark Aichele (pipefitter); Frank
Boyle and Jeff McGillivray (plumber);
Jeff Simons and Erv Garrison (ACR);
Pete Bakker and Barry Sather (oil
burner); and Jim Eastman and Steve
Nitsch (metal trades) were tapped to
Examining Boards.
All terms are for three years.
Local 290 represents about 4,000
plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters in
Oregon, Southwest Washington and
Northern California. The local’s master
labor agreement expires March 31, so
bargaining will take place this year.
Machinists District
Lodge 24 reps all
run unopposed
Because there
were no chal-
lengers, Bob Pet-
roff, directing busi-
ness representative
of Machinists Dis-
trict Lodge 24 and
four incumbent
business represen- B OB P ETROFF
tatives have been
re-elected to new four-year terms.
Nominations were held last month
and an election was scheduled for Feb.
21. But because there was no opposi-
tion, an election will not be held. The
new terms of office begin in February.
Re-elected as business representa-
tives were Joe Kear, Britt Cornman,
Scott Lucy, and Phil Dilsaver.
Michael E. Hardeman, Business Representative
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