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Newspaper Page TextNORTHWEST LABOR PRESS | October 2, 2015 | PAGE 5 Old Glory rises at IBEW Local 48 union hall An American ﬂag that once ﬂew over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., has found a home at IBEW Local 48’s union hall in Northeast Portland. Machinists protest firing of ABM employee Members of the Machinists Union picketed Portland Inter- national Airport Sept. 18 to protest the firing of union ac- tivist Greg Morris. His em- ployer, ABM Onsite Services, refuses to recognize the union, after a large majority of 25 em- ployees voted to join the Ma- chinists. Morris, 25, is a four- year employee who was active in the union campaign. He was fired without cause on Aug. 20. Joining Machinists business reps Will Lukens and Bob Petroff at PDX was Tom Cham- berlain (left), president of the Oregon AFL-CIO and a Port of Portland commissioner. Also pictured are Bobby Klein and Mark Gagliardi. Both men were in town for the UFCW Local 555 Shoot for a Cure sporting clay shoot fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Soci- ety. Klein is a retired business rep for the Northwest California Carpenters, and Gagliardi is chief steward for Office and Professional Employees Local 277 in California — and the vol- unteer coordinator of the Shoot for a Cure charity program. The ﬂag was dedicated Sept. 23 in a ceremony that included an American Legion riﬂe volley and color guard. Crystal Lariza sang the national anthem as the ﬂag was raised. Ed Barnes, a retired Local 48 business manager, donated the ﬂag to his union. It was a birth- day gift to him from U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell. The ﬂag ﬂew over the nation’s Capitol on Aug. 17 — Barnes’ birthday. Current Local 48 Business Man- ager Gary Young said the ﬂag “is in honor to our members who have passed away on the job.” Soon, the union will sell bricks that members can engrave with messages. The bricks will be laid in the plot of land underneath the ﬂagpoles. Money raised will go to Local 48’s Sick Fund. The American ﬂag is displayed on a 30-foot ﬂag- pole. Flags of Oregon and Washington are hung on adjacent 25-foot poles. Three ﬂoodlights were installed on the roof of the union hall so that the ﬂags are illuminated at night.