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Local 21
Motion
June 2010
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
Name of employer
Date
Name of union
First Student
6/10
OSEA 6732 v. Teamsters 206
Results:
Union Union
Yes No
Location
Gresham
First Student
6/11
OR School Employees Assn. St. Helens
67 6 25
16
22
North Lake School District (decertification)
6/15
OR School Employees Assn. Silver Lake
5
6
King City
6/15
King City Police Emp Assn King City
4
0
Recognition by card check
Name of employer
Date Name of union
Location
Number of employees
Portland
10
Oregon Zoo (classified staff & P-T teachers)
Laborers Local 483
6/3
Requests for recognition election
Name of employer
Name of union
Alpha Iron
Iron Workers Shopmen’s Local 516
Boeing (simulator technicians)
Machinists Wood Workers District Lodge 1
Portland Center for the Performing Arts (decert)
Int. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
Location
Number of employees
Vancouver
16
...Pension plan reform
(From Page 1)
we set out to do,” said Randy De-
Frehn, executive director of the Na-
tional Coordinating Committee for
Multiemployer Plans. DeFrehn’s
group has been lobbying for pension
funding relief for over a year. De-
Frehn said the new law will allow
union employers that participate in
multi-employer pension plans to re-
main competitive.
The law also grants some relief to
single-employer pension plans,
though few companies are likely to
use it. Single-employer plans will get
to amortize losses over nine or 15
years, under the new law, instead of
the previous seven years. But compa-
nies that accept that funding relief will
have to make additional pension
catchup contributions — matching
any amount they pay executives over
$1 million a year or any amount they
pay in extra dividends or stock buy-
backs.
For the multi-employer pensions to
be eligible for the relief provisions,
actuaries have to certify they’ll still
have sufficient assets to pay all prom-
ised benefits over the 30 years. And
plans that choose the longer catch-up
period will face some restrictions on
increasing benefits, unless employers
make additional contributions to cover
the benefit increases.
DeFrehn said one open question is
how the new law will affect multi-em-
ployer plans that have already adopted
“rehabilitation” schedules: Will they
be able to re-certify their funding sta-
tus and decrease the amount of make-
up contributions imposed on partici-
pating employers? NCCMP is asking
Congress to clarify that the law is
retroactive, but given a tight election-
year legislative schedule, DeFrehn
said the group is also asking the
Treasury Department to interpret that
aspect of the law.
And NCCMP will continue to
press for enactment of other relief
measures that were contained in a bill
sponsored by Sen. Bob Casey (D-
Penn.), including provisions that
would allow multi-employer plans to
partition off groups of workers
“stranded” when a large employer
goes out of business.
The bill, which also made some
changes to Medicare reimbursements,
passed unanimously in both the
House and Senate.
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