Roseburg techie will lead OSEA
Past president Bonnie
Luisi retired and did
not seek a second
two-year term.
In a close race, Roseburg School
District network technician Tim Stoelb
outpolled Bend-La Pine School District
secretary Linda Bradetich to become
president of Oregon School Employees
Association (OSEA). The election took
place June 30 among roughly 260 del-
egates at the union’s annual convention.
OSEA’s previous president, Bonnie
Luisi, retired and did not seek a second
two-year term.
OSEA represents about 20,000
support workers in K-12 school dis-
tricts around Oregon, as well as in
Head Start centers, several community
colleges and private contractors that
have contracts
with the
schools. Its
members in-
clude school
secretaries,
custodians,
cafeteria
workers,
school bus
drivers, main-
tenance work-
TIM STOELB
ers, and educa-
tional assistants, as well as computer
technicians and district office staff
such as bookkeepers and payroll and
accounting clerks. OSEA affiliated
with American Federation of Teachers
in 2008, becoming AFT Local 6732.
Luisi, a secretary in Hermiston
School District’s special education de-
partment, decided to take advantage of
an early retirement clause in the con-
Union-sponsored hunting show
returns to Sportsman Channel
The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance’s
(USA) award-winning hunting and
fishing TV Show, “Brotherhood Out-
doors” kicked off its third season June
28. The show airs Thursdays at 5 p.m.
Pacific Time on the Sportsman Chan-
nel, which is Channel 405 on Comcast.
USA is a union-dedicated outdoor
organization whose members hunt,
fish, shoot and volunteer their skills for
conservation.
“Brotherhood Outdoors” showcases
union workers who have the opportu-
nity take part in an outfitted North
American adventure or to act as a
guide, inviting the show’s host to their
favorite hunting or fishing locations.
The show is produced by USA and
sponsored by the Bank of Labor, the
AFL-CIO, and numerous labor unions.
For more information about the
show, USA, or the Sportsman Channel,
go online to www.BrotherhoodOut-
doors.tv or www.unionsportsmen.org.
tract recently
ratified by her
chapter in Her-
miston. By re-
tiring early,
Luisi — a can-
cer survivor —
can continue
receiving
health insur-
ance benefits
until
she is eli-
BONNIE LUISI
gible
for
Medicare. She will continue to serve on
the OSEA Board as junior past presi-
dent.
Stoelb, 56, came to work for Rose-
burg School District after a 21-year in-
formational technology career in the
U.S. Navy, where he attained the rank
of chief petty officer. After watching
bargaining sessions between the union
and the school district in 2001, he got
involved in OSEA, becoming building
representative, steward, unit treasurer
and president, OSEA Board member,
director of OSEA Zone 5 in Josephine,
Jackson, Klamath and Douglas coun-
ties, and a trustee on the Southern Ore-
gon Central Labor Council. Stoelb will
seek release from his job to work half
time in Salem for OSEA.
Stoelb told the Labor Press his pri-
ority as president will be educating the
public — at a time when public school
budgets are being cut and public em-
ployees and their unions have come un-
der attack.
“It would be nice to get people to
understand that we’re not the bad guy,”
Stoelb said.
IN MEMORIAM
C ARLA F LOYD , a past presi-
dent of Communications Work-
ers of America (CWA) Local
7901, passed away at her
Southeast Portland home June
27. She was 62.
Floyd served four terms as
president of Local 7901 —
from 1987 to 1996. During that
time she negotiated numerous collec-
tive bargaining agreements and repre-
sented workers of various employers.
She led the local during strikes against
Dex One in 1989 and USWest in 1998,
and was responsible for saving many
jobs during the massive re-organiza-
tion that US West (Qwest’s predeces-
sor) went through in the 1990s.
C ARLA J O F LOYD was born in
Portland, Oregon, Sept. 28, 1949, to
Heini and Dorothy Ziegler. She was
raised in Corbett, Oregon, and gradu-
ated high school there. She attended
several colleges in Oregon and served
as a Vista volunteer prior to starting her
career with Pacific Northwest Bell
more than 38 years ago.
Before being elected president of
Local 7901, Floyd was an ac-
tive shop steward and execu-
tive vice president. She chaired
many committees within the
local, including Community
Services.
Floyd also served as the la-
bor representative on the Mult-
nomah County Civil Service
Board.
At the time of her death, Floyd was
working for CWA District 7 as the
health benefits coordinator at Century
Link (formerly Qwest).
Floyd is survived by her daughter,
Amanda Floyd; sister, Brenda Atkin-
son; and grandson, Ethan Sanders.
A memorial service was held July
20 at Rose City Funeral Home in Port-
land.
The family asks that in lieu of flow-
ers, donations in Floyd’s name be
made to the American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Do-
nate on line at ASPCA.org/donate, or
send a check to ASPCA Attn: Linda
Tiramani, 520 8th Avenue 7th Floor,
NY, NY 10018.
Local Motion
June 2012
A list of Oregon and Southwest Washington workplaces deciding
whether to be union-represented – as reported by the National
Labor Relations Board and the Oregon Employment Relations Board.
Voting in union elections
Date Workplace (Location) Union
Yes
No
9
3
59
33
5/23 Rural Metro paramedics (Eugene)Teamsters Local 206
6/7 Ore. Child Dev. Coalition (Cornelius) Laborers Local 320
DECERT
Unionizing by majority sign-up
Date Workplace (Location) Union
Number of workers in unit
5/16 Multnomah County physicians (Portland) Oregon AFSCME
5/30 Washington County appraisers (Hillsboro) Oregon AFSCME
6/21 Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (Redmond) ATU Local 757
26
28
45
Requesting a union election
Workplace (Location) Union
Number of workers in unit
City of Waldport (Waldport) Oregon AFSCME DECERT
BrucePac (Woodburn, Silverton) Laborers Local 296
McMinnville Water and Light (McMinnville) IBEW Local 125 DECERT
YoCream/Dannon frozen yogurt manufacturing (Portland) Teamsters Local 305
City of LaPine Public Works (LaPine) Teamsters Local 962
Turner Fire District (Turner) Fire Fighters Local 2557 DECERT
9
300
10
45
5
2
L EGEND
: workers will be union-represented
DECERT
JULY 20, 2012
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
: workers will be on their own
: A decertification election occurs when some union-represented workers declare
that the union no longer has majority support. A ‘yes’ vote is a vote for the union.
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