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Local 21
Motion
September 2010
Union certifications and decertifications in Oregon and Southwest
Washington, as reported by the National Labor Relations Board and
the Oregon Employment Relations Board
U.S. House resolution
recognizes Labor Press
Oregon Congressman David Wu
(D-1st District), introduced a resolution
in the U.S. House of Representatives
recognizing the 110th anniversary of
the Oregon Labor Press Publishing
Company, owner of the Northwest La-
bor Press.
House Resolution 1627 recognizes
the Northwest Labor Press as “a na-
tional model for quality, in-depth re-
porting on labor issues” and “instru-
mental in providing news and
information in print and online to
workers and retirees around the Pacific
Northwest that goes unreported by
other media.”
The Northwest Labor Press was
founded on Labor Day 1900 and has
published without interruption for the
past 110 years.
HR 1627 was referred to the House
Committee on Oversight and Govern-
ment Reform. It has one co-sponsor,
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-3rd
District).
Recognition elections
Name of employer
Date
Name of union
Fred Meyer Jewelers
9/7
UFCW Local 555
Results:
Union Union
Yes No
Location
Hillsboro
Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office
9/27
Deschutes Cty. DAs Assn.
Bend
3
1
10
5
Requests for recognition election
Name of employer
Name of union
Location
Number of employees
Enterprise Holdings (decertification)
Teamsters Local 305
Tualatin
60
First Student (drivers)
Teamsters Local 324
Woodburn
44
First Student (maintenance)
Teamsters Local 324
Woodburn
3
Blachly-Lane Electrical Cooperative
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 659
Eugene
13
Transit Union delegates pick Hanley
over Oregonian Ron Heintzman
ORLANDO — At a Sept. 27-30 convention in Orlando, Florida, delegates chose
Larry Hanley over Ron Heintzman as international president of Amalgamated Tran-
sit Union (ATU).
Heintzman, former president of Portland-based ATU Local 757, had served as
international president since the July 1 resignation of former president Warren
George, and was backed by George as a successor. Hanley, former president of
Local 726 in the Staten Island borough of New York, was an international vice
president. The vote was 372 to 272.
Hanley pledged to focus ATU’s attention on organizing and political activism.
Hanley ran on a slate with longtime Ohio unionist Robert Baker, who won election
as international executive vice president, ATU’s number two position. Heintzman
ran as part of a three-person slate that included Oscar Owens. Owens won re-elec-
tion as international secretary-treasurer.
ATU represents 192,000 active and retired bus drivers, mechanics and transit dis-
trict employees in the United States and Canada.
Heintzman was president of Local 757 from 1988 until 2002, when he was ap-
pointed international vice president and relocated to Washington, D.C. He will now
return to Oregon.
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