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NW Oregon Labor Council recognizes its friends at annual dinner
Twenty-eight people received
awards May 30 at the 12th annual La-
bor Appreciation and Recognition
Night dinner sponsored by the North-
west Oregon Labor Council.
The event was a fundraiser for La-
bor’s Community Service Agency. This
year, $2,039 was raised on raffle tickets
for cash and Made in the U.S. prizes do-
nated by local unions and area busi-
nesses.
Recognized at this year’s dinner
were: Joe Esmonde, IBEW Local 48;
Becky Steward and Michael Hanna,
Multnomah County Employees AF-
SCME Local 88; Cameron Taylor and
Victor Weekes, Bakers Local 364; Jodi
Parker and David Tischer, Laborers Lo-
cal 320; City Commissioner Nick Fish;
Val Jack of the Oregon Alliance for Re-
tired Americans; Linda Rasmussen,
Communications Workers of America;
Harold King, NOLC Retirees Council;
Joe LeBarron, retired member of Amal-
gamated Transit Union Local 757; Bar-
bara Mathey, CEO of IBEW & United
Workers Federal Credit Union; Darel
Aker, retired from Joint Council of
Teamsters No. 37; Randy Fish and
Terry Lansing, Bakers Local 114; Jesse
Sackett, Insulators Local 36; Shelby
Palmer and Evertt Roberts, Interna-
tional Longshore and Warehouse Union
Local 8 and Local 40; Tyler Gorton,
ILWU; John Mohlis, executive secre-
tary of the Columbia Pacific Building
and Construction Trades Council; Lynn
Lehrbach, Joint Council of Teamsters
No. 37; Jack Roy and Gary Moore, La-
borers Local 296; Terry Allen Moe, pas-
tor, Redeemer Lutheran Church and
leader of Metropolitan Alliance for
Common Good; Michael Arken, Ore-
gon AFSCME Retirees; Aida Arada,
Pictured are Labor Appreciation and Recognition Night recipients from left to right:Val Jack, Barbara Mathey, Victor
Weekes, Terry Lansing, Randy Fish, and Jodi Parker.
Oregon & Southern Idaho District
Council of Laborers-Employers Train-
ing Center; and the late Earl Kirkland,
retired executive secretary of the Co-
lumbia Pacific Building and Construc-
tion Trades Council.
Mayor reappoints Vancouver city employees forego cost-of-living raises for two years
Additionally, all city managers and nonunion em-
VANCOUVER — Members of four unions rep-
The agreement will save the city approximately
resenting workers at the City of Vancouver have $495,000 in 2009.
Building Trades’
ployees received no cost- of-living increases for 2009.
Earlier this year, Fire Fighters Local 452 agreed to
agreed to give up cost-of-living raises for the next two
“We are well aware of the city’s budget situation
waive a previously negotiated cost-of-living increase and knew we would be asked to forgo pay increases
years.
Mohlis to PDC
Office and Professional Employees International for 2009, which resulted in a savings of more than
John Mohlis, executive secretary of
the Columbia Pacific Building and
Construction Trades Council, has been
appointed to a second term on the Port-
land Development Commission.
The action came as a consent
agenda item at the May 20 Portland
City Council meeting. Also reap-
pointed at that time was PDC chair
Charles Wilhoite.
Appointments to the PDC, the
quasi-independent development arm of
the city of Portland, are made by the
mayor and confirmed by City Council.
Mohlis was first appointed to the
commission in 2007 by then Mayor
Tom Potter.
His and Wilhoite’s new terms expire
June 30, 2012.
Local 11, which represents 172 city employees, ap-
proved the deal, along with the Joint Labor Coalition,
which is comprised of the Machinists Union,
Plumbers and Fitters Local 290, and Teamsters Lo-
cal 58. The coalition represents 67 employees.
The contract does not impact step increases of 3.5
percent for roughly 100 employees.
$700,000. Local 452 and sister Local 4378, as well as
the Fire Marshal’s Unit and Fire Command, also
waived their wage increases for 2009 and 2010.
Two other unions, the American Federation of
State, County & Municipal Employees and the Po-
lice Command Unit, also represented by Local 11,
are working under terms of expired contracts.
for the biennium,” said Rick Wilson, a business rep-
resentative of OPEIU Local 11. “I am pleased to say
that our members overwhelmingly pledged their sup-
port for this agreement to help the city meet their fi-
nancial challenges,”
The Vancouver City Council approved the two-
year contract at its meeting June 1.
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