Glaziers Local 740 awards pins
to longtime union members
Glass Workers Local 740 honored
longtime members with pins Dec.
19 at a retirees’ luncheon in North-
east Portland.
In a special presentation, Bill
Vonderohe (pictured) received a
50-year gold card, a watch, and spe-
cial plaque. Vonderohe has
been an officer of the
union since 1967,
most recently as the
local’s recording
secretary.
He
chairs the retirees’
club as well.
Karl Werner
was on hand to
receive a 55-year
pin, and Robert
Johnson and Robin
Knutson took home 45-
year pins. Thirty-five
year pins were presented
to Alan Brown, Frank Fath, Eddy
Gardner and Charles Voelpel. Martin
Vasquez was not present. Also not at-
tending were 40-year members Timo-
thy Triden and Tim Washington; 50-
year member Donald Hansen,
and 65-year member James
Johnsrud.
Presented with 30-year pins
were Tom Golden and Eric
Maki. Not in attendance were
30-year members Lawrence
Jackson, Henry Johans-
son, Bryon Tem-
ple, and Jerry
Thomas.
The local’s
longest-serving
member, with 67
years — 85-year-old
Chuck Boothby —
also attended. Booth-
by’s father, William,
was a founding mem-
ber of the local 101
years ago.
Presenting
the
awards were Local 740
President Alan Brown and Business
Representative Jerry Fisher.
Membership pins of 5 to 25 years
will be presented at the Local’s regular
membership meeting in January.
NW labor history association
puts out call for papers on CIO
The Pacific Northwest Labor His-
tory Association (PNLHA) has put out
a call for presentations, workshops, and
papers for its conference May 3-5 in
Portland.
PNLHA is a non-profit association
dedicated to preserving the history and
heritage of workers in the Pacific
Northwest, which includes Oregon,
Washington, and British Columbia.
Members are trade unionists, students,
academics, and others who share an in-
terest in the history and heritage of
workers in the region.
The theme of this year’s conference,
its 45th, is “Labor Under Attack:
Learning from the Past and Preparing
for the Future.”
The association is seeking propos-
als related to the 75th anniversary of
the founding of the Congress of Indus-
trial Organizations (CIO) and its con-
nection to workers, politics, and com-
munity activist groups.
In its call for papers PNLHA en-
courages participatory methods for
program presentations, including panel
discussions, oral histories, and the arts.
The deadline for proposals is Tues-
day, Jan. 15.
For more information, or to submit a
proposal, contact Laurie Mercier at
lmercier@vancouver.wsu.edu.
The conference will be held at Uni-
versity Place Hotel and Conference
Center in downtown Portland. A bloc
of rooms has been reserved for confer-
ence attendees.
The Oregon Historical Society will
host a reception and registration on Fri-
day, May 3.
Retirees of Glass Workers Local 740 gathered for a holiday luncheon and membership pin ceremony Dec. 19 in
Portland. Among those attending was Chuck Boothby (seated), the local’s longest-serving member with 67 years.
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opened a new facility in Coos County.
The AFL-CIO’s Housing Investment
Trust (HIT) financed $22 million of the
$30 million construction project, and
some 225 union construction workers
were employed under a project labor
agreement with general contractor
Neenan Archistructure.
Early in 2012, construction unions
held several informational pickets at the
Port of Vancouver, where an out-of-
state, nonunion contractor was employ-
ing foreign and out-of-state workers to
build an export terminal expansion for
United Grain.
Postal worker unions held several
rallies throughout the year to protest the
postmaster general’s plan to shutter
half of all mail processing facilities in
the United States and end Saturday
mail delivery.
In Oregon politics, the Clackamas
County board of commissioners in Jan-
uary unanimously passed a resolution
prioritizing the use of local source hir-
ing of workers and materials that pro-
vide family wage jobs whenever it puts
out for bid public construction projects
and/or personal and professional serv-
ice contracts.
In the November election, a union-
sponsored ballot initiative diverting
Oregon’s corporate kicker tax refund to
schools passed by a wide margin. La-
bor also helped reject Measure 84, an
attempt to phase out inheritance taxes
on large estates.
Union members knocked on over
115,000 doors and made over 315,000
phone calls in the Oregon AFL-CIO’s
election program, where labor-backed
Democrats picked up four seats in the
Oregon House, retaking the majority
there while holding on to 16-14 major-
ity in the Oregon Senate.
Meanwhile, in Washington, labor-
endorsed Democrat Jay Inslee won the
governor’s race, but Democrats held
the state senate by only 26-23, and in
December, two Democrats announced
a power-sharing deal to turn the cham-
ber over to Republicans.
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it well.”
On the floor with Campbell at the
time of the Clackamas Town Center
shooting were fellow Local 350 mem-
bers Julie Anderson, Suzanne Baugh-
man, Jaime Scheneman Cooper, Devon
Halleman, Andrew Mickelson, Michael
Smith, and Beth Spreadborough, as
well as supervisors Jodi Edmeier and
Teresa Raihala-Sethe (both former
members). Local 350 members Karey
Ammons, Holle Burbach and Local
350 President Fred Yungbluth came in
voluntarily after hearing about the situ-
ation, and members Lori Gillingham,
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Kory Oman, Megan Pointer, and Ben
Postlewait all dealt with the continuing
aftermath as they came on the next shift.
Campbell says C-COM Director
Bob Cozzie arrived within minutes of
hearing about the situation on the news,
as did operations manager Mark
Spross, who happened to be driving by
the Town Center at the time.
“We had a lot of support from man-
agement as well as our union brothers
and sisters,” said Campbell.
(Editor’s Note: Don Loving is com-
munications director of Oregon AF-
SCME Council 75.)
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
JANUARY 4, 2013