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PAGE 2 | February 6, 2015 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Lights on? Thank an IBEW member NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS (International Standard Serial Number 0894-444X) Established in 1900 in Portland, Oregon as a voice of the la- bor movement. Published on a semi-monthly basis on the first and third Fridays of each month by the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Co. Inc., a non-profit mutual benefit corpo- ration owned by 20 unions and councils including the Ore- gon AFL-CIO. Serving more than 120 union organizations in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Office location: 4275 NE Halsey St., Portland, Oregon Mailing address: P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213 Phone: (503) 288-3311 Web address: http://nwlaborpress.org Editor: Michael Gutwig Associate editor: Don McIntosh Office manager: Cheri Rice Printed on recycled paper, using soy-based inks, by members of Teamsters Local 747-M. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Individual subscriptions are $13.75 per year for union members, $20 a year for all others. Send a check for that amount, indicating mailing address and union affilia- tion, to P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213. For 25 or more subscriptions, group rates of $9.60 a year per person are available to trade union organizations. Call 503-288-3311 for de- tails. CORRECTIONS: See an error? Please let us know at editor@nwlaborpress.org or by phone at 503-288-3311. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT PORTLAND, OREGON. CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOTICE: Three weeks are required for a change of address. When or- dering a change, please give your old and new addresses and the name and number of your local union. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS P.O. BOX 13150 PORTLAND, OR 97213-0150 for the BEST flowers call 503-288-5537 1638 NE Broadway, Portland 140 IRS PROBLEMS? • Haven’t filed for ... years? • Lost records? • Liens - Levies - Garnishments? • Negotiate settlements. • Prepare offer in Compromise. Call Nancy D. Anderson Enrolled Agent NPTI Fellow/America’s Tax Expert LTC-1807 www.nancydanderson.com 503-244-2577 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Lo- cal 125 has a message for resi- dents of Oregon and Southeast Washington: Your electric power is safe and reliable — be- cause union members are trained and ready to answer the call. That’s the theme of a series of full-page ads that ran in mid- to late-January in newspapers in areas served by PacifiCorp. “Why are the lights on at PDX just hours after an out- age?” asks one such ad, which ran in Willamette Week. “Be- cause IBEW 125 lineman Je- remy Barr has a 21-year head start.” “The communities the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electri- cal Workers 125 serves are where we live and work, and in Portland, the people we serve are our neighbors,” the ad con- tinues. “Linemen like Jeremy train for three and a half years ONLINE EXTRA See all five ads at nwlaborpress.org/ 2015/01/ibew-ads/ Broadway Floral Marcy Grail. The print ads — as well as a web component — were devel- oped by San Francisco based Storefront Political Media, a firm that has done work in the past for IBEW Local 1245. Besides the Portland ad, which featured Barr, Local 125’s ads have included mem- bers Jeremy White in Bend, Marilyn Brockey in Astoria, Butch Wilson in Pendleton, and Doug Hinds in Walla Walla. IBEW Local 125 launches ad campaign for residents of Oregon and SE Washington Amazon.com gets a union landlord — longer than it takes to be- come a lawyer — before they go to work in your community. That training helps keep the lights on and prevents accidents. And because power outages can happen at any time, IBEW 125 linemen are on call 24 hours a day.” “It’s an opportunity to recog- nize and celebrate the work our members do,” explains Local 125 business representative SEATTLE — An entity re- lated to the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust (BIT) has pur- chased Blanchard Plaza, 2201 Sixth Ave., Seattle, for $120.7 million, reports the Daily Jour- nal of Commerce. In an ironic twist, the 15-story, 255,818-square-foot building is 100 percent leased to the not-so- union-friendly Amazon.com through 2026. BIT purchased the building from Shorenstein Properties of San Francisco. Steelworkers strike Anacortes, 8 other U.S. refineries About 230 workers at the Tesoro Anacortes Refinery in Washington are among 3,800 members of the United Steel- workers Union (USW) on strike at nine U.S. refineries. The workers walked out Feb. 1 at five refineries in Texas, two in California, and one in Ken- tucky. It is the union’s largest strike since 1980. USW is bargaining with Royal Dutch Shell, which is serving as the lead company in national oil bargaining. When- ever this deal gets settled, the contract terms will be used as a model for other companies within the industry. Negotiations started Jan. 21. The union is seeking a three- year deal. Sticking points are staffing and maintenance, in- cluding the use of contract em- ployees. USW represents about 30,000 workers at 65 U.S. refineries and over 230 refineries, oil terminals, pipelines and petrochemical fa- cilities in the U.S. The facilities not targeted for strike are operat- ing under a rolling 24-hour con- tract extension. This includes a Shell refinery in Anacortes.
