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Phillips retires at Sheet Metal Workers; Candioto appointed business manager Len Phillips, a 40-year member of Portland-based Sheet Metal Workers Local 16, has retired as business man- ager/financial secretary. The local’s Ex- ecutive Board appointed business agent John Candioto to complete the unex- pired term. The Executive Board appointed Russ Benton to fill Candioto’s unex- pired term as a business agent. The transition took place Dec. 1. Officer elections will be held in June 2012. Phillips, 62, has held the local’s top position since 2003. He had less than a Gradine Storms, Principal Broker RE/MAX equity group Cell/Text 503-495-4932 grady@gradystorms.com Enjoy a blessed Holiday Season! one term on the Executive year remaining on his third Board. term. A native Oregonian, Can- A graduate of the Sheet dioto grew up in a union Metal Workers apprenticeship household. His late father was and training program, Phillips a member of International worked as a business agent for Longshore and Warehouse the local from 1993 to 1995, Union Local 8, and his grand- servicing Southern Oregon. J OHN was a union boiler- father He returned to the tools in C ANDIOTO maker. 1995, taking a job as a con- “I was a union kid,” he struction manager for South- said. land Industries. That’s what After graduating from he was doing when he was Portland’s Cleveland High appointed business manager School, Candioto moved to in 2003, following the resig- the Tri-Cities in Washington, nation of Bob Ronspiess. where he worked as a union In addition to business construction laborer. manager, Phillips has served L EN In 1976 he entered the as president of the local, as a P HILLIPS sheet metal apprenticeship pension trustee, on the ap- prenticeship and training committee, program in the Tri-Cities, joining Sheet and as a trustee to the international Metal Workers Local 242 (now Local 55). He followed work to Portland in training trust. “The local is stable and on solid fi- 1988, where he transferred his union nancial ground,” Phillips said. “When card to Local 16. Candioto said work in Local 16’s ju- I took this job, I set a goal of leaving office with the union better off than I risdiction currently is the best it’s been found it. I feel we’ve done that. Now, in two and a half years. “We’re not fully I’ve challenged my successor and the recovered, but we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he said. other officers to do the same.” The union represents 2,200 Sheet Candioto, 54, has worked full time as an elected business agent for Local Metal Workers in both construction and 16 since 2006. Prior to that he served industrial production. IN MEMORIAM L EE H UNSAKER , a former business representative and 69-year member of the Ma- chinists Union, died Nov. 11 of age-related causes. He was 88. L EE G. H UNSAKER was born March 28, 1923, in Dil- lon, Mont., to Isaac and Laura Griffith Hunsaker. He married Mar- garet “Mickey” Mickelson on Nov. 20, 1942, in Eugene. Hunsaker began his career as an ap- prentice saw-maker at Spear & Jack- son, Inc., the charter shop of Machin- ists Paradise Lodge No. 1311 in Eugene. The shop made circular saws and bandsaws for mills. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he returned to Spear & Jackson to com- plete his apprenticeship. He worked as a journeyman saw- maker until he was elected business representative for Santiam District Lodge 163, which was comprised of Machinists locals in Cottage Grove, Eugene, Corvallis, and Salem. After District 163 was merged with District Lodge 24, Hunsaker continued as a business rep until his retirement in 1978. Hunsaker held several offices in Lodge 1311. He also held delegate po- sitions to the Lane County Labor Council, the Linn-Benton-Lincoln La- bor Council, the Oregon Ma- chinists Council, and the Ore- gon AFL-CIO during his career. In recent years, Lodge 1311 was merged into Lodge 1432. Hunsaker was a member of Lodge 1432 at the time of his death. Hunsaker is survived by his wife; a son, Richard of Springfield; a daughter, Nancy Van Buskirk of Eu- gene; six grandchildren; and nine great- grandchildren. A memorial service was held Nov. 17 at Lane Memorial Gardens & Fu- neral Home in Eugene. The family asks that remembrances go to the Lane County chapter of the American Red Cross. ‘American Made’ in the Northwest Mon-Fri 9:30-7:30 Sat 9:30-5:30 Sun 12-6 (International Standard Serial Number 0894-444X) Established in 1900 at Portland, Oregon as a voice of the labor movement. 4275 NE Halsey St., P.O. Box 13150, Portland, Ore. 97213 Telephone: (503) 288-3311 Editor: Michael Gutwig Staff: Don McIntosh, Cheri Rice Published on a semi-monthly basis on the first and third Fridays of each month by the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Co. Inc., a non- profit corporation owned by 20 unions and councils including the Oregon AFL-CIO. Serving more than 120 union organizations in Ore- gon and SW Washington. Subscriptions $13.75 per year for union members. Group rates available to trade union organizations. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT PORTLAND, OREGON. 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