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Anderson Enrolled Agent NPTI Fellow/America’s Tax Expert LTC-1807 www.nancydanderson.com 503-244-2577 WASHINGTON At Longview paper mill, strike is over, but dispute continues The strike at the Kapstone paper mill and box plant in Longview, Washington, ended Sept. 8 after 12 days, but there’s still no con- tract between the company and the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers (AWPPW). Union Vice President Greg Pallesen says he wouldn’t be surprised if Kapstone locks out AWPPW members before the end of the year. “We think they would do it just to try to scare people,” Pallesen said. Workers went on strike sev- eral weeks after Kapstone im- posed the terms of its final offer, which includes health benefit cuts and changes to seniority and transfer rights. The work stoppage reportedly cost work- ers $2.4 million in wages and benefits—and the company $14 million in net income. Kapstone refused to allow five of the strikers to return to work. Managers also sent home a worker who put a “no scabs” sticker on his coffee thermos, and threatened to fire him if he returned to work with the sticker. “Even though people know they have a legal right to do something, there’s not a lot of them that can go without a pay- check for six months or a year,” Pallesen said. On Oct. 12, Kapstone wrote AWPWW demanding that it schedule another vote within six days on the company’s imposed offer, but the union declined. “We have no intention of re- voting,” Pallesen said. “They want us to vote yes on what we already received.” Pallesen says Kapstone has also switched to mostly non- union maintenance contractors in Longview, after members of the Bricklayers, Plumbers, Car- penters, and other unions refused to cross AWPPW’s picket line during the strike. AWPPW has accused Kap- stone of multiple labor law vio- lations, including refusal to bar- gain in good faith. A hearing on the charges before an adminis- trative law judge of the National Labor Relations Board was scheduled for December but has been postponed until February 2016. A lot could rest on the out- come: If the judge rules Kap- stone broke the law, workers could strike over the violations and the company would not be lawfully allowed to permanently replace them. AWPPW hasn’t ruled out another strike. Airport retailer fires union activists At Portland International Air- port, World Duty Free has ter- minated three of the most vo- cal supporters of a union campaign. The Italian-head- quarted company runs the Kiehl’s, Rich’s News, The Oregonian, and “The Market” kiosks at the airport. In Febru- ary, a group of workers there came out in favor of joining UNITE HERE Local 8, but the company declined to voluntar- ily recognize the union. On Oct. 22, pro-union em- ployees Jim Waltz and David Cry were told they were being permanently laid off in a re- structuring. Apparently their job title will no longer be needed, so those who held the title are being let go—even while the same locations were hiring for other jobs. “I think my support for the union had everything to do wtih it,” Waltz said. “They hired six people the week I was let go.” Waltz earned $13 an hour; his five-year tenure made him the second-most senior in a workplace of about 45. Local 8 says a third key union supporter was termi- nated for trumped-up infrac- tions. The union filed charges Oct. 30 with the National La- bor Relations Board. LOCAL MOTION ] SEPT/OCT 2015 The following are Oregon and Southwest Washington workplaces where workers have voted on whether to be represented by a union. The thumbs-up symbol means workers will be union- represented. Thumbs-down means they’ll be on their own. Decert means a decertification election, where union-represented workers vote whether to remain union. The information comes from the National Labor Relations Board and the Oregon Employment Relations Board. Election Results Employer (Location) Union Yes-No = First Student (Gresham) Oregon School Employees Assn. DECERT 32-62 % Life Care Center (Coos Bay) Teamsters Local 206 3-11 % Peacehealth Laboratories (Longview) AFT Healthcare NW 15-1 ^ First Student (Molalla) Oregon School Employees Assn. DECERT 22-9 ^ Oregon Child Development Coalition (Klamath Falls) AFSCME 24-10 ^