NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS | June 5, 2015 | PAGE 11
International taps Bakers
Local 114 rep Shad Clark
Paula Kingsbury (left) and Leanna Hakala (center), retirees from American Federation of Teachers-Oregon,
join LCSA Executive Director Vickie Burns at the Beaverton City Library May 17 to crochet and knit items for
newborn babies. The volunteer project is part of Labor Community Service Agency’s new Team Labor! pro-
gram. The knitted items are donated to the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Clinic and Randall Children’s
Hospital. The knitting group meets monthly, and volunteers are always welcome.
Portland labor agency launches
new community volunteer program
Labor’s Community Service
Agency (LCSA) has launched a
program that will help union
members and labor advocates
volunteer for neighborhood and
public service projects through-
out the Portland metropolitan
area.
The Team Labor! program
offers an array of volunteer jobs
and services with various times
and locations to choose from.
Registered volunteers will work
side-by-side with other union
members, as well as the general
public, lending a hand with
community-enriching projects
such as park clean up, library
book repair, local conservation
efforts, even knitting for new-
borns. Volunteers will also be
encouraged to wear clothing or
gear printed with their local
union logo while volunteering.
The program came about on
the heels of LCSA’s 2014 Pres-
ents from Partners toy drive and
holiday giving party.
“Our volunteers, along with
brothers and sisters who read or
heard about Presents from Part-
ners, were asking us for addi-
tional opportunities,” said
LCSA Executive Director
Vickie Burns. “We considered
several possibilities, but the
Team Labor! concept fits best
with our goals and mission.”
LCSA will work with its part-
ner United Way of the Colum-
bia-Willamette and United
Way’s Hands On Greater Port-
land agency to develop and
choose projects best suited to
Team Labor! volunteers.
On May 17, Burns and two
union retirees — Paula Kings-
bury and Leanna Hakala of the
American Federation of Teach-
ers-Oregon, volunteered at a
knitting club to make items for
newborn babies.
“Union members have a sin-
cere interest in helping our
neighborhoods and communi-
ties grow and thrive,” said
Burns. “With such an abun-
dance of talent and enthusiasm
in our midst, Team Labor! vol-
unteers can make a significant
difference in the quality of life
in the Portland Metro area.”
To become a member of
Team Labor!, register online at
http://vols.pt/teamlabor
For more information, visit
the LCSA website at www.lc-
saportland.org
Shad Clark, who was
at Oregon Nurses As-
business agent at Port-
sociation.
land based Bakers Local
He received a soc-
114, was hired as West-
cer scholarship to
ern Regional interna-
Winthrop University
tional representative of
in Rock Hill, South
the Bakery, Confec-
Carolina, where he
tionery, Tobacco Work-
earned a bachelor’s
ers and Grain Millers
degree in human re-
(BCTGM) effective June
sources.
Shad Clark
1. Clark replaces Eric
After college, he
Anderson, who retired.
took a job at Franz
BCTGM’s Western Region in- Bakery in Portland, where he
cludes locals in California, Ore- became a member of Local 114.
gon, Washington, Montana, He later was elected president of
Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Local 114, and went to work as
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Ari- business agent.
zona.
To succeed Clark as business
Working at the International, agent, the Local 114 Executive
Clark will be one of two repre- Board named president Darren
sentatives assisting Western Re- Hamann. Hamann, 41, worked
gion locals in organizing and at Kroger Clackamas Bakery for
contract bargaining campaigns. 20 years, and served on the Ex-
It’s a diverse membership, rang- ecutive Board the last eight.
ing from big industrial bakeries He’ll be responsible for negoti-
to Boise sugar beet factory ating and enforcing the local’s
workers to Bay Area employees wholesale contracts.
of Ghirardelli, See’s Candy, and
And to replace Hamann as
American Licorice (makers of president, the Executive Board
Red Vines).
appointed Andrew Stern.
Clark, 45, was born in
Local 114, with about 1,200
Hawaii, but grew up in Port- members, includes workers at
land, where he graduated from the Franz, Kroger, Safeway and
graduated from Benson Poly- Bimbo/Oroweat wholesale bak-
technic High School.
eries, as well as cake decorators
His father was principal offi- and bakery department workers
cer of Bakers Local 364, and his in local unionized grocery
mother was an office manager stores.
IN MEMORIAM
Bruce N. Zimmerman
June 16, 1944 - April 27, 2015
Bruce Zimmerman, a former
president of IBEW Local 48,
died April 27 at Legacy Good
Samaritan Hospital in Portland
following a long battle with
pancreatic cancer. He was 70.
Zimmerman was assistant di-
rector at the NECA-IBEW
Electrical Training Center in
Northeast Portland from 1991
until his retirement in October
2011. Prior to that, he worked
for West Side Electric.
He served as president of
IBEW Local 48 from 2004 to
2007. He also served on several
electrical boards, most recently
chairing the board of the IBEW
and United Workers Federal
Credit Union.
In 2008, Zimmerman and
union brothers Jeff Hawkins
and Bob Palandech went on a
humanitarian trip to Peru with
Health Bridges
International, a
Portland-based
nonprofit. There,
they helped local
Peruvians revamp
the electrical sys-
tem at a health
care clinic.
Bruce Neal Zimmerman was
born June 16, 1944, in Portland.
He graduated from Cleveland
High School in 1962. He went
on to study mathematics and
play football at Portland State
University, where he received
his Master’s degree.
An avid sportsman, Zimmer-
man met his wife, Kathy Weber,
at a softball game, and they mar-
ried Feb. 11, 1981.
He is survived by his wife;
daughters Ruthie Smith and
Elizabeth Zimmerman; two
grandchildren; and brother
Gary.