Sheet Metal Workers Local 16 re-elects John Candioto
John Candioto was returned as busi-
ness manager of Portland-based Sheet
Metal Workers Local 16 in union offi-
cer elections held June 26 to 28, out-
polling challenger Dennis Boyd 84 to
16 percent. Candioto has been business
manager since his Dec. 1, 2011, ap-
pointment by Local 16’s Executive
Board. He succeeded Len Phillips,
who retired.
Local 16 represents 1,938 sheet
metal workers in construction and
manufacturing in Oregon and South-
west Washington — including about
400 retirees.
Members also elected four full-time
business representatives and 16 offi-
cers. Incumbent business representa-
tive Willy Myers won with 68 percent
of the vote
against chal-
lenger Robert
Brewer, and
incumbent
business rep
Russ Benton,
who was ap-
pointed to re-
place Candioto
in December,
won with 64
JOHN
percent of the
CANDIOTO
vote against
challenger Robert Riehl. Business rep-
resentatives Dennis Dover and Del
Brown were elected unopposed.
Brown represents production employ-
ees, while the others represent mem-
bers in construction.
Charles Johnson, Seth Kerner, and
James Ramos were the top vote-getters
for Executive Board for the local’s con-
struction members. All other officers
were elected unopposed. Those were:
president, Ric Olander; vice president,
Art Himm; recording secretary, Matt
O’Neill; Executive Board for produc-
tion, Darrell Alcorn, Devin Hosking,
and William Willman; Executive
Board for Southwest Oregon, Joel
Hutchinson; trustees, Ed Dawes, Tom
Harding, and James Philley; and war-
den, Ron Hergenrader.
All terms are three years, and offi-
cers were sworn in July 11.
Candioto, 55, has been in the sheet
metal trade since he went to work as an
apprentice in 1976 in Local 242 (which
is now Local 55) in Walla Walla, Wash-
ington. A 1975 graduate of Cleveland
High School in Portland, his first union
work was pouring concrete at Hanford
Nuclear Reservation as a member of
Laborers Local 348. He moved to Port-
land in 1988, became a member of Lo-
cal 16, and was elected to the Local 16
Executive Board in 2003, and business
agent in 2006.
On the building trades side, work
has picked up in the last couple years,
at Intel and projects around Portland,
as well as at Facebook’s Prineville data
center; just under 12 percent of the
union membership are currently out of
work. Construction sheet metal work-
ers install heating, ventilation and air
conditioning systems and ductwork, as
well as architectural and structural and
decorative sheet metal, including metal
roofs and siding.
WSLC convention Aug. 6-9 in Wenatchee
WENATCHEE, Wash. — The 2012
Constitutional Convention of the Wash-
ington State Labor Council (WSLC)
will be held Monday through Thursday,
Aug. 6-9, at the Coast Wenatchee Hotel
and Convention Center. The WSLC is
comprised of more than 500 affiliated
labor organizations, representing some
400,000 rank-and-file members across
the state.
Under the theme “Stronger To-
gether,” the convention agenda will fea-
ture AFL-CIO Executive Vice Presi-
dent Arlene Holt Baker and
labor-endorsed candidates, including
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and Jay In-
slee for governor. In addition, there will
be panels on Jobs and the Economy;
Trade, Immigrant Workers and Traf-
ficking; and Union Organizing.
Special convention events include a
golf tournament and opening reception
Aug. 5; film night Aug. 6; a COPE bar-
becue fundraiser Aug. 7; and conven-
tion banquet Aug. 7. Also on Aug. 5,
the Washington Young Emerging Labor
Leaders (WA YELL) will hold its first
convention.
For more info about the convention,
contact Jan or Karen at 206-281-8901.
Make your union-made sundae using these products from
members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain MIllers
Union; the Machinists Union; United Food & Commercial Workers;
Teamsters; and the United Auto Workers.
* Hershey operates a number of nonunion
manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Mex-
ico that produce Hershey products, including
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and more.
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JULY 20, 2012