Guide Dog Dash motorcycle poker run raises
cash for a good cause
Forty-seven motorcycle riders participated in the 8th
annual Guide Dogs Dash Aug. 23, sponsored by Ma-
chinists Lodge 63 and Machinists District W24. This
year’s ride was held in honor of Chuck Drake, who
passed away last December. Drake had the original idea
for the ride to raise money for Guide Dogs of America.
Guide Dogs was founded by the International Associa-
tion of Machinists in 1948 in Sylmar, California, to
provide guide dogs free of charge to the blind commu-
nity. The organization depends solely on voluntary do-
nations, bequests, and fundraising events, such as the
motorcycle poker run. This year’s event raised nearly
$3,500.
(PHOTO LEFT) This
Harley, with license
plate UNION 2,
belongs to IAM W24
Assistant Directing
Business Rep Bob
Petroff.
Guide-dog-in-training Zeus enjoys the poker run.
Laborers Local 483 reaches
tentative agreement at Metro
Laborers Local 483 reached tenta-
tive agreement Aug. 14 on a new col-
lective bargaining agreement with the
Metro regional government, covering
about 500 workers at the Oregon Zoo
and Metro’s regional parks and natural
areas.
The four-year agreement provides
an immediate 2.5 percent cost-of-living
wage increase, followed by annual
raises equal to the increase in the Con-
sumer Price Index (minimum 1.25 per-
cent, maximum 3.5 percent).
The agreement grants up to 50 hours
of paid sick leave, institutes premium
pay for split shifts, and guarantees at
least four hours of pay when an em-
ployee reports to work.
It provides new rights to workers
who are classified as “temps”: After
2,080 hours (two years), they will no
longer be considered at-will employ-
ees, and will have the right to contest
unfair discipline through a grievance
process and binding arbitration. The
agreement also improves the contract’s
definition of temps.
Local 483 agreed to halt further in-
formational picketing at the Zoo as part
of the agreement.
Local 483 also made several con-
cessions. The agreement increases em-
ployee contributions to health insur-
ance premiums to 8 percent, up from
the current 6 percent. It also adds a new
parking charge of $10 a month starting
January 2016 ($40 a month for those
who don’t currently have a parking
spot.)
If approved, the contract would be
retroactive to July 1, 2014 and would
run through June 30, 2018.
Members were slated to vote on the
agreement the first week of September.
...ILWU
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United Grain and the Clark County
Board of Commissioners tried to per-
suade the county sheriff’s department
to provide escorts, but Sheriff Garry
Lucas declined. [United Grain offered
to pay the sheriff’s department for the
service.]
Without police escorts, grain in-
spectors refused to enter the facility, ef-
fectively shutting down grain exports
at the Port of Vancouver.
On Aug. 12, FMCS announced that
a tentative agreement had been
reached.
Members of ILWU have loaded
grain for export in the Pacific North-
west since 1934.
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