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February 6, 2015 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
Lights on? Thank an IBEW member
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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.