Official
Notices
B AKERY , C ONFECTIONERY ,
T OBACCO W ORKERS AND
G RAIN M ILLERS 114
Executive Board meets 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, in
the meeting room at 7931 NE Halsey, Suite 205, Port-
land. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE SECOND
TUESDAY.
SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE: Nominations
for all officers of Bakers and Grain Millers Union Lo-
cal 114 will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014 at the
Bakers and Grain Millers Union Local 114 meeting
room located at 7931 NE Halsey St., Suite 201, Port-
land, Oregon 97213. Ballots will be mailed Friday,
November 28, 2014. To qualify to receive a ballot you
must be in good standing on November 11, 2014.
C EMENT M ASONS 555
Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at 12812
NE Marx St., Portland.
C ENTRAL O REGON
L ABOR C OUNCIL
Delegates meet 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, at the
Social Justice Center, 155 NE Irving Ave., Bend.
C OLUMBIA -P ACIFIC
B UILDING T RADES
Delegates meet 10 a.m. Tuesdays, Nov. 11 and
Nov. 18, at Kirkland Union Manor II, 3535 SE 86th,
Portland.
E LECTRICAL W ORKERS 48
Electrical Workers Minority Caucus meets 5:30
p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, in the Dispatch Lobby.
Residential Unit meets 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, in
the Executive Boardroom.
Executive Board Meeting meets 6:30 p.m. Wednes-
day, Nov. 12, in the Executive Boardroom.
Wasco Unit meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at
Northern Wasco County PUD, 2345 River Road, The
Dalles.
Sound and Communication Unit meets 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the Meeting Hall.
Washington Unit Meeting meets at 6 p.m. Thurs-
day, Nov. 13, at the Longview Hall, 1145 Commerce
Ave. Long View, WA.
General Membership meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 19, in the Meeting Hall. Doors open at 5 p.m.
Meetings are at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland,
unless otherwise noted.
DEATH ASSESSMENTS: No. 2409, Albert B.
Schlottmann; No. 2410, Scott A. Trapp; No. 2411,
Garth R. Edington; No. 2412, George R. Reynolds,
No. 2413, Steven P. Cayton; No. 2414, Robert L. Ku-
fus; and No. 2415 Michael W. Ploense. The Nov. as-
sessment is $1.50.
E LEVATOR C ONSTRUCTORS 23
Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, preceded
by a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 12779 NE
Whitaker Way, Portland. PLEASE NOTE: At the
Portland unionists
to discuss $15
minimum wage
Portland Labor Notes and 15 Now
PDX will host a brunch Saturday, Nov.
15, at the Oregon Labor Center, 3645
SE 32nd Ave., Portland, to discuss the
role of unions in the fight for a $15
minimum wage.
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nomination meeting, all positions were unopposed
and elected by acclamation.
M ETAL T RADES C OUNCIL
F IRE F IGHTERS 452
Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.
Delegates meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25.
Meetings are at IBEW Local 48 Hall, 15937 NE
Airport Way, Portland.
Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 2807
NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver, Wash.
F IRE F IGHTERS 1660
Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at 4411
SW Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego.
I NSULATORS 36
Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Members meet 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14.
Meetings are at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland.
I RON W ORKERS 29
Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, preceded
by a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 11620 NE
Ainsworth Circle #200, Portland.
I RON W ORKERS
S HOPMEN 516
Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.
Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 22.
PLEASE NOTE DATE AND TIME CHANGE.
Meetings at 11620 NE Ainsworth Circle, #300,
Portland.
L ABORERS 320
Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at Joe
Edgar Hall, Teamsters’ Complex, 1850 NE 162nd
Ave., Portland.
L ABORERS 483
M UNICIPAL E MPLOYEES
Members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, pre-
ceded by a 5:30 p.m. stewards’ meeting, at the Musi-
cians Hall, 325 NE 20th Ave., Portland.
L ABORERS /V ANCOUVER 335
Members meet 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, preceded
by a 6:15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Van-
couver Labor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vanc.
L ANE C OUNTY
L ABOR C OUNCIL
Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, at
1116 South A St., Springfield.
L ANE , C OOS , C URRY &
D OUGLAS B UILDING T RADES
Delegates meet at noon Wednesday, Nov. 26, at the
Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Parkway,
Springfield.
L INOLEUM L AYERS 1236
Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
20, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. PLEASE
NOTE: Date changed due to Thanksgiving holiday.
M ARION -P OLK -Y AMHILL
L ABOR C OUNCIL
Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11,
followed by a 7 p.m. general meeting at 1400 Tandem
Ave. SE., Salem.
The discussion will feature Alysa-
beth Alexander, vice president of poli-
tics for Service Employees Interna-
tional Union (SEIU) Local 1021 in
San Francisco, and Nicole Grant of the
International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW) Local 46 in Seattle.
SEIU Local 1021 was instrumental
in leading the campaign for a $15 min-
imum wage that became the ballot ini-
tiative that voters were expected to ap-
prove on Election Day, Nov. 4.
Grant was directly involved
in Seattle’s $15 campaign. She
is president of the Washington
Young Emerging Labor Lead-
ers (YELL) and is vice presi-
dent of the Washington State
Labor Council.
The brunch starts at 10:30
a.m. The program will begin
at 11 a.m.
M ID -C OLUMBIA
L ABOR C OUNCIL
Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 3313
W. 2nd, The Dalles.
M OLDERS 139B
Members meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, pre-
ceded by a 6 p.m. Executive Board meeting at the Car-
penters Hall, 2205 N. Lombard, Portland.
M ULTNOMAH C OUNTY
E MPLOYEES 88
General membership and stewards meet 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 19. Meeting agendas may be
viewed on the AFSCME Local 88 webpage on the
Monday prior to the Wednesday meeting.
Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3.
Any member in good standing may attend as a non-
voting visitor.
Meetings are at 6025 E. Burnside, Portland.
N ORTHWEST O REGON
L ABOR C OUNCIL
Delegates meet 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at IBEW
Local 48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland.
PLEASE NOTE: The Nov. 24 and Dec. 22 meetings
have been canceled.
O PERATING E NGINEERS 701
Members meet 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Lo-
cal 701 Union Hall, 555 East First St., Gladstone for
the Semi-Annual meeting.
P AINTERS & D RYWALL
F INISHERS 10
Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, at
11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland.
Website: www.iupatlocal10.org
P ORTLAND C ITY &
M ETROPOLITAN E MPLOYEES
189
Executive Board meets 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11.
General membership meets 6:15 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 25.
Meetings are at 6025 E Burnside, Portland.
R OOFERS & W ATERPROOFERS
49
Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.
Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4.
Meetings are at 5032 SE 26th Ave., Portland.
S HEET M ETAL W ORKERS 16
Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.
11, at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th
Ave., Portland
Medford area members meet 4 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 12, at Wild River Pizza, 2684 N Pacific Hwy.,
Medford.
Eugene area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
13, at the Local 16 Hall, 1887 Laura St., Springfield.
Coos Bay area members meet 4 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 20, at Abby’s Pizza, 997 First St., Coos Bay.
Women of Sheet Metal Workers Local 16
(WOSM) meet 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at
Beaulahland, 118 NE 28th Ave., Portland. Children
are welcome.
Portland VOC meets 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, at the
Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave.,
Portland.
S IGN P AINTERS &
P AINT M AKERS 1094
Members meet 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in the
District Office, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland.
S OUTHEASTERN O REGON
L ABOR C OUNCIL
Delegates meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at the
Woodworkers Hall, 3836 Altamont Drive, Klamath
Falls.
S OUTHERN O REGON
C ENTRAL L ABOR C OUNCIL
Delegates meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at the La-
bor Temple, 4480 Rogue Valley Hwy. #3, Central
Point.
S OUTHWESTERN O REGON
C ENTRAL L ABOR C OUNCIL
Delegates meet 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at the Bay
Area Labor Center, 3427 Ash, North Bend.
S OUTHWEST W ASHINGTON
L ABOR C OUNCIL
Delegates meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at La-
borers Hall, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vancouver, WA.
U NITED A SSOCIATION 290
Portland area members meet 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov.
21, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tualatin. The following
locations will be able to participate remotely in the
Regular Business Meeting at 7:30 on the 3rd Friday of
every month: Bend, Eugene/Springfield, Eureka,
Medford, and Salem.
Astoria meeting has been canceled.
Brookings area members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 25. Please contact Craig Spjut at 707-496-1767
for location information.
Coos Bay area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.
25, at the Coos Bay Training Center, 2nd & Kruse,
Coos Bay.
Klamath Falls area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 25, at 4816 S 6th St., Klamath Falls.
The Dalles November meeting is cancelled.
Retiree Meeting
Notices
A LLIANCE FOR R ETIRED
A MERICANS O REGON C HAPTER
Members meet 11 a.m. Thursday,
Nov. 13, at 3642 SE 32nd, Portland.
All retirees are welcome to attend.
I RON W ORKERS 29
Retirees meet 12 noon Wednes-
day, Nov. 12, at 11620 NE
Ainsworth Cir., Portland for a
catered lunch.
E LECTRICAL W ORKERS 48
Retirees, wives and friends meet
for lunch 11:30 a.m Tuesday, Nov.
11, at Bob’s Red Mill Deli, 5000
SE International Way, Milwaukie.
For reservations and more informa-
tion, please contact Glenn
Hodgkinson at 503-656-0028.
O REGON AFSCME
Retirees meet 10 a.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 18, at the AFSCME office,
6025 E. Burnside, Portland. Call
Michael Arken for information at 1-
800-521-5954 ext. 226..
E LEVATOR C ONSTRUCTORS 23
Retirees meet 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Home-
Town Buffet, 10542 SE Washing-
ton St., Portland.
S HEET M ETAL W ORKERS 16
Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thurs-
day, Nov. 13, at Shari’s Restaurant,
11335 NE Airport Way, Portland.
U NITED A SSOCIATION 290
Portland area retirees meet 10
a.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at 20210
SW Teton Ave., Tualatin.
Is USDA playing ‘chicken’ with our health?
American Federation of Govern-
ment Employees (AFGE) is suing the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) to block new rules that could
result in diseased or tainted poultry be-
ing sold to consumers.
The new rules, if fully implemented,
could dramatically reduce the number
of poultry inspectors, and make each in-
spector responsible for examining 140
birds per minute — four times as much
as the previous standard. Federal in-
spectors would no longer conduct com-
prehensive examinations of the carcass
of each chicken and turkey: That re-
sponsibility would be delegated to poul-
try processors themselves. USDA in-
spectors would see carcasses only after
they have been eviscerated, sorted,
trimmed and reprocessed by the poul-
try processors.
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
AFGE’s lawsuit — filed Oct. 20 in
the U.S. District Court for the District
of Columbia — says the new inspection
system will impair the ability of federal
inspectors to detect unwholesome and
adulterated chickens because they will
no longer see the viscera of each car-
cass. Despite that, the viscera, known as
giblets, would be sold for human con-
sumption with the official USDA in-
spection stamp. The union argues that
the new rule violates a federal law, the
Poultry Products Inspection Act, which
requires that government inspectors
perform a post-mortem inspection of
the carcass of each bird
USDA inspector Ken Adrian is pres-
ident of AFGE Local 1188, a 43-mem-
ber Pacific Northwest local of food in-
spectors. He says the concern is that if
inspectors are company employees,
they’ll be reluctant to shut the produc-
tion line down when there are problems.
“We [federal employees] have the
authority to stop production if we see a
huge problem,” Adrian said. “Let’s say
there’s a lot of feces on the carcasses be-
cause the machinery is breaking down.
It doesn’t cost us anything to stop pro-
duction and say we have a problem -
there’s contaminated product. Their
own employees on the other hand …
these are companies that keep track of
how much it costs them for each second
the production line is shut down.”
It’s not that the companies would
want to sell contaminated product,
Adrian says, just that the temptation to
cut corners could put public health at
risk. So far, Adrian says, the new rules
are voluntary, and no poultry processor
in Oregon or Washington is using them.
NOVEMBER 7, 2014