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BUILDING COMMUNITY
Cold hard cash for Labor’s Community Service Agency
Amalgamated Transit Union
Local 757 donated $600 to La-
bor’s Community Service
Agency (LCSA) last month.
The money came from a 50/50
drawing the union held at its
annual picnic at Blue Lake
Park.
Each year Local 757 selects
a non-profit to donate to.
“Labor’s Community Serv-
IBEW LOCAL 125 PICKETS PACIFIC POWER HEADQUARTERS. ice Agency is very deserving.
Nearly 200 outside linemen and wiremen from several electrical utilities We recommend our members
in Oregon, Washington, and Utah picketed Sept. 23 outside the corpo- to the agency all the time,” said
rate headquarters of PacifiCorp in the Lloyd District. The union workers ATU President Shirley Block.
Block and ATU Secretary-
at Pacific Power, a subsidiary of PacifiCorp, which is owned by Warren
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy, have been bargaining for a new Treasurer Mary Longoria pre-
contract for more than a year. They have rejected two proposals. The sented the cash to LCSA Exec-
most recent was on Sept. 1, at which time they also voted to authorize a utive Director Vickie Burns
strike if needed. The company is demanding a four-year deal, and it Sept. 10 at Local 757’s Schop-
wants to shift more of its health care costs onto workers. Over the last pert Hall in Northeast Portland.
two contracts the company has terminated its pension plan and raised
wages just 1 percent a year. Union electrical workers from other compa-
nies joined in the protest knowing that this fight for benefits could easily
become their fight for benefits in the future. “It’s all about solidarity,” said
Don Eri, a lineman and Local 125 member at Portland General Electric.
“We bargained in good faith for our benefits, and we want to keep them.
None of us wants to go down this road.” Local 125 represents 320 line-
men, meter readers, substation wiremen and others at Pacific Power. The
service area extends from Astoria to Bend to Walla Walla, Washington.
Vickie Burns (center) executive director of Labor’s Community Service
Agency, receives a cash donation from ATU Local 757 President Shirley
Block (right) and Secretary-Treasurer Mary Longoria.
Burns said the money will go
to the agency’s Helping Hands
temporary hardship assistance
program.
Scholarships for kids of workers injured or killed on the job
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ids’ Chance of Oregon, a two-year-old non-
profit that provides post-secondary and
trade school scholarships to children of Oregon
workers who have been severely or fatally in-
jured in a workplace accident, handed out schol-
arships Sept. 16 at McMenamin’s Kennedy
School. The scholarship recipients were Josika
Wigner (left) and twins Kayla and Randi John-
ston. Making the presentation is Bob Shiprack,
president of Kids’ Chance of Oregon.
Wigner, who has Tourette’s syndrome and as-
pergers, lost her father to a workplace accident
in 2012. She attends Clark Honors College at the
University of Oregon, and plans to go to medical
school to someday work as a geriatric physician.
She received a $14,000 scholarship.
Randi and Kayla are repeat Kids’ Chance schol-
arship recipients. They were five when their fa-
ther was killed in a job-related accident. Both are
studying business management at Lower Co-
lumbia College in Longview, Washington, and
both plan to attend Oregon State University next
year. They received $1,200 and $1,400 scholar-
ships, respectively.
Oregon is the 27th state with a Kids’ Chance
chapter. Its board of directors is made up prima-
rily of professionals with experience in workers’
compensation-related industries. Labor is repre-
sented on the 12-member board by Shiprack, a
retired executive director of the Oregon State
Building Trades Council, and Bob Tackett, execu-
tive secretary-treasurer of the Northwest Oregon
Labor Council. Other notables on the board are
Nelson Hall, a labor attorney at Bennett, Hart-
man, Morris & Kaplan, and Jennifer Flood, State
of Oregon ombudsmen for injured workers.
More than 100 people attended the Sept. 16
scholarship awards ceremony, which also dou-
bled as a fundraiser for the organization. Among
the guest speakers was Kevin Jensen, a retired
business manager of Iron Workers Local 29.
Jensen serves on the board of SAIF Corp., Ore-
gon's not-for-profit, state-chartered workers’
compensation insurance company.
“It hurts to lose a parent at any age, but when
a young person loses a parent, or a parent is crit-
ically injured, it can be devastating,” Jensen said.
“These scholarships can help provide some sta-
bility, by providing some financial support to at-
tend college or a trade school.”
Jensen and Shiprack encourage Oregon labor
unions to become more involved in Kids’ Chance
of Oregon and to help raise funds for future
scholarships.
For more information about Kids’ Chance of
Oregon, visit their website at www.kidschanceo-
foregon.com.