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Local Motion
May 2009
Union certifications and decertifications in Oregon and Southwest
Washington, as reported by the National Labor Relations Board and
the Oregon Employment Relations Board
Recognition elections
Results:
Name of employer
Date
Name of union
Location
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
5/28
Oregon Nurses Association
Prineville
Union Union
Yes No
30
3
Recognition by card check
Location
Number of employees
Name of employer
Date Name of union
Klamath Falls
Klamath Community College
70
5/20 Klamath Community College Faculty Association/OEA
Requests for recognition election
Name of employer
Name of union
Eugene
60
Red Apple Market ( DECERTIFICATION )
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 555
Marion County
Marion County Law Enforcement Association
St. Helens
26
Salem
6
McMinnville Water & Light
Employees of McMinnville W&L vs IBEW Local 125
McMinnville
12
City of Umatilla
City of Umatilla Public Safety Assn. vs. SEIU Local 503
Umatilla
11
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And union backers have to contend
with the fact that some of their full-time
co-workers may be less enthusiastic
about the union drive. Full-timers got a
10 percent cut from wages of $29 an
hour, but that still gives them a lot more
to lose.
“Unions these days give conces-
sions all the time,” argued a full-timer
who showed up to a June 12 union
strategy meeting to speak against
unionizing. It was an odd argument to
make: If unions bargain concessions, at
least members get to vote on it; this
group of workers had just had conces-
sions imposed on them without a vote.
Another fear: If they unionize, the
company may decide to fire them all
and replace them with temps. Workers
say representatives of Barrett Business
Services, a temp agency, were seen vis-
iting the department.
Despite the risk, several pro-union
workers who spoke with the Labor
Press said they don’t have much to lose
at this point.
“We have no other choice,” said one.
“We should have done it a lot sooner.”
JUNE 19, 2009
The Portland City Council passed
resolutions June 3 pledging to buy
goods and services made or produced
in America — and to establish employ-
ment standards for all programs funded
with monies from the federal American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The resolutions were carried by
Mayor Sam Adams and Commission-
ers Dan Saltzman and Randy Leonard.
There was no opposition.
The American Recovery and Revi-
talization Act (ARRA) passed earlier
this year by Congress includes $787
billion in federal funding for infra-
structure, health care, education, en-
ergy efficiency, public safety, job train-
ing, and other programs.
The amount coming to Portland is
expected to be $30 million. Approxi-
mately $14.7 million has been ear-
marked for surface transportation and
another $5.6 million for energency ef-
ficiency programs.
Location
Number of employees
McDonald Wholesale
Teamsters Locals 206 and 962
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The City Council also is working
with local partners and state agencies
to secure additional funding through
ARRA competitive grants.
The “Buy America” campaign was
launched on a national scale by United
Steelworkers. To date, more than 500
states, towns, and other public entities
have passed similar resolutions, includ-
ing commissioners in Multnomah and
Yamhill counties, city councils repre-
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senting Albany, Sweet Home, and Carl-
ton in Oregon; and Clark County, the
City of Vancouver, and the Regional
Transportation Council in Southwest
Washington.
Testifying in favor of the Portland
resolutions were Barbara Byrd, secre-
tary-treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO,
and Judy O’Connor, executive secre-
tary-treasurer of the Northwest Oregon
Labor Council.
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Letter Carriers’ food
drive beats record
Despite the difficult economic times
throughout the nation, Americans do-
nated a record 73.4 million pounds of
non-perishable food in the Letter Car-
riers National Food Drive to restock
community food banks and pantries,
the National Association of Letter Car-
riers (NALC) announced.
The food was collected by letter car-
riers on May 9 as they delivered mail
along their postal routes in over 10,000
cities and towns in all 50 states.
It is the nation’s largest one-day ef-
fort to “Stamp Out Hunger.”
In Oregon and Southwest Washing-
ton, 1,602,405 pounds of food were col-
lected, plus $74,221 in cash donations.
Final results showed 73,414,533
pounds of non-perishable food were col-
lected nationwide, an increase over the
previous record of 73.1 million pounds
set in 2008. It was the sixth consecutive
year above 70 million pounds and
brought the total for the drive’s 17 years
to over 982 million pounds of food.
West Coast Florida NALC Branch
1477, headquartered in St. Petersburg,
collected 1,755,689 pounds of dona-
tions to take top honors among the
more than 1,400 local NALC branches.
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
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