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ern spotted owl a threatened species. UFCW Local 555 strikes Portland-area supermar-
kets for 24 days before approving a 4-year contract. Union-built Oregon Convention Cen-
ter opened. Ballot Measure 5 passes, placing severe limitations on property taxes to sup-
port schools and government services. Labor helps elect Barbara Roberts first woman
governor of Oregon. United Mine Workers of America win strike against Pittston Coal. 1991:
Labor pushes lawmakers for universal health care. KOIN-TV placed on the Unfair List —
some 50 off-camera employees were working without a contract at the station for nearly
two years. Unions support troops in the Persian Gulf War. 1992: Oregonians first in the
nation to hold a vote-by-mail election. U.S. Senate kills bill prohibiting employers from hir-
ing scabs to replace striking union workers. Public employees brace for an onslaught of
pink slips after lawmakers reject Gov. Barbara Roberts’ proposal to overhaul Oregon’s tax
system. PGE says it will phase out the Trojan nuclear power plant. Members of Mult-
nomah County Employees Local 88 get new contract that provides health care coverage
for unmarried domestic partners. Bill Clinton elected president. The Washington Post re-
ports that 10 women alleged that Bob Packwood fondled and pressured them sexually.
Packwood never denied the charges. The Oregon AFL-CIO joins forces with Oregonians
for Ethical Representation to hold Packwood accountable for the allegations. Asian Pacific
American Labor Alliance created within AFL-CIO. 1993: World Wide Web introduced. Tro-
Mohlis to succeed Shiprack at OSBCTC
ROSEBURG — John Mohlis, ex-
ecutive secretary-treasurer of the Co-
lumbia Pacific Building and Construc-
tion Trades Council, was elected by
acclamation to succeed Bob Shiprack
as executive secretary of the Oregon
SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
State Building Trades Council.
Shiprack is retiring after 25 years at
the helm.
The election took place Aug. 25 at
the Oregon State Building Trades
Council’s 48th annual convention.
Mohlis, a former business manager
of Bricklayers and Allied Craftwork-
ers Local 1, will take office Oct. 1. He
has served in the top post at the Co-
lumbia Pacific Building Trades Coun-
cil since 2005. He had served as pres-
ident of the council since 1994.
Shiprack, a longtime member of
International Brotherhood of Electri-
cal Workers Local 48, was a Demo-
cratic state representative from
Clackamas County when he was first
elected president of the state building
trades council in 1984. He took over
as executive secretary a year later.
Convention delegates passed four
resolutions: supporting a 300 acre ma-
rine terminal development on West
Hayden Island; continuation of a
planned new mental health hospital in
Junction City; support of Ballot Meas-
ure 72 to allow the state to issue low-
est-cost bonds to finance state owned
or operated property; and a $1 per
member, per month assessment to
fund its political action committee,
Oregonians to Maintain Community
Standards.
Because of space restrictions in
this 110th anniversary issue, a more
complete report from the convention
will appear in the Sept. 17 edition of
the Northwest Labor Press.
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
jan nuclear power plant closes. Rick Bender named president of Washington State Labor
Council after Larry Kenney resigns to take state job. Boeing Co. plans to cut 27,000 jobs
by 1994. ATU and Greyhound end bitter three-year strike. Nine union activists arrested at
Portland National Labor Relations Board office to bring attention to failure of federal labor
laws to protect workers’ rights in organizing unions. The Bonneville Power Administration
proposes hiking electricity rates 20 percent or more. President Clinton’s Northwest For-
est Plan is met by “boos.” Northwest Oregon Labor Retirees Council, AFL-CIO, estab-
lished. North American Free Trade Agreement passes in the House of Representatives.
1994: Rick Bender elected president of WSLC. Lone Star Northwest busts Operating En-
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