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AUG. 6, 2010:NWLP 8/3/10 10:11 AM Page 12 Davis re-elected business manager of IBEW #48 Clif Davis defeated Barry Mitchell in a run-off election for business man- ager/financial secretary of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers (IBEW) Local 48. The vote was 912-619. Ballots were tallied July 13. Neither candidate was able to obtain the required 50 percent-plus-one major- ity in the first mail-in election June 23. Three candidates were in that race, in- cluding Paul Riggs. Mitchell and Davis, the top two vote-getters, then went to a run-off. Davis, 53, has served as business manager of the 3,800-member local since 2007, when he unseated Mitchell, who was wrapping up his first term in office. Davis is a Portland native and 1974 graduate of Benson High School. He started in the labor movement as a Fred Meyer cashier and member of Clerks Local 1092. After six years as a cashier, and six as a Fred Meyer manager, he worked three years at Frito-Lay as a member of the Teamsters Union. He en- tered the IBEW apprenticeship program in 1988 and turned out in 1993. Davis also holds an associates de- gree in applied science from Portland Community College. He worked as a general foreman and as an instructor at the NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center in Northeast Portland before being hired in 1996 as an organizer for Local 48. In 2001, he took a job as a business representative for the local. In other election results, Erik Richardson defeated incumbent Phil Parker for president, while Gary Young out-polled Joe Jacobs for vice president. John Sargent and Kathy Duncan ran un- opposed for treasurer and recording sec- retary, respectively. In a 12-person race for six Executive Board seats, the top vote-getters were Rod Belisle, Paul Behrman, Dan Ma- her, Bob Blair, Paul New, and Marjorie Ramirez. Jason Jenkins, Alan Keser, and Cari Ebbert were elected to the Exam Board in a four-person race. Fourteen members ran for eight slots as convention delegates. Elected were Lee Duncan, Bruce Zimmerman, Kathy Duncan, Lisa Serrano, Eric Hayes, Bob Carroll, Ryan Brown, and Joe Es- monde. Officers, Board members, and dele- gates were sworn in July 28. Terms of office are three years. Washington residents: the deadline to register to vote in the Aug. 17 primary election is Monday, Aug. 9 MACG organizing 100 homes in Cully for clean energy program C LIF D AVIS Building Trades to host labor night with Beavers on Aug. 19 Building Trades Night with the Portland Beavers will be held Thurs- day, Aug. 19, at PGE Park. Infield reserve tickets are only $12. A bloc of 100 tickets have been re- served for union members and their families. Gates open at 6 p.m. with the first pitch at 7:05 p.m. The Beavers are hosting Round Rock Express. To order your tickets, contact Brian Pollard at 503-553-5441 or bpollard@pgepark.com and be sure to mention you are with the building trades event. Deadline to order tickets is Wednesday, Aug. 18 at 5 p.m. Know Your Rights Over 300 residents from Portland’s Cully neighborhood gathered at Rigler School July 29 to learn about the “Changing the Climate in Cully” ini- tiative. As part of the Clean Energy Works Portland residential weatheriza- tion retrofit program, eligible home- owners who choose to participate in the project will improve the comfort and value of their homes, save energy, and create family-supporting jobs in the community. Sponsored by Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good (MACG) and a coalition of other community partners, the event — which also featured free ice cream, music, and family entertain- ment — marked the kick-off of the neighborhood-led initiative. Home- owners in attendance learned more about home weatherization, and many signed up for an energy assessment. Through outreach and volunteer activ- ities such as door-knocking, phone banks and house parties, MACG’s "”Changing the Climate in Cully” ef- fort will organize 100 Cully homes by September for retrofits this year. Beyond energy efficiency, “Chang- ing the Climate in Cully” is concerned with creating family-supporting jobs and growing the area’s economy. As a start, the program will create 17 new jobs, while sustaining another 16. In or- der to provide the highest quality work to customers, while ensuring the high- est quality job creation, six small, local construction contractors and workers from the Laborers Union have teamed up to perform the weatherization retro- fit work, guaranteeing living-wage jobs and health care benefits for all workers employed on the project. With a new weatherization training program, the Laborers Union has been providing training and credentials in jobs as weatherization installers and su- pervisors. In addition, subcontractors representing three trade union locals — Sheet Metal Workers Local 16, Electri- cal Workers Local 48, and Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 290 — will be performing specialty work on the proj- ect. “Our members are walking the streets of Cully talking with residents about the program, helping to build this innovative organizing model, and most importantly to us, will perform this work under a union contract,” said Greg Held, Business Manager of the Oregon, Southern Idaho and Wyoming District Council of Laborers. “Thanks to the efforts of MACG and its partner organizations, workers on this green energy efficiency project will all be making living wages and receiving health care.” Earlier this year, the U.S. Depart- ment of Energy awarded the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sus- tainability a $20 million “Retrofit Ramp-Up” award to weatherize thou- sands of homes and commercial build- ings statewide through an expansion of the pilot program called Clean Energy Works Portland (CEWP). “Changing the Climate in Cully” is part of that larger CEWP program, which has already retrofitted 158 homes in Portland and has another 228 homes in progress. In the coming weeks, MACG’s Cully neighborhood volunteers will talk to their neighbors about the proj- ect through house parties and commu- nity events. Outreach activities will wind down at the end of September, with the 100 home retrofit goal to be reached by December 2010. The only time you must go to a doctor chosen by the employer or workers’ compensation insurer is if you receive a proper notice of an “independent medical exam (IME).” This one-time appointment is for their expert to comment on your case. PAGE 12 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS AUGUST 6, 2010
