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June 3, 2016 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
BUILDING COMMUNITY
Support Labor’s Community
Service Agency by shopping
at unionized Fred Meyer
STARS!
COMMITMENT TO
TRAINING SETS UNION
PAINTERS AND FLOOR
COVERERS APART FROM
THEIR COMPETITION
Nearly 100 union painters
and floor coverers received
$599 bonus checks May 20 at
a Safety Training Awards
Recognition (STAR) banquet
in Portland. The craftsmen
and women are members of
Portland-based Painters Lo-
cal 10 and Floor Coverers Lo-
cal 1236 who work for em-
ployers of the Signatory
Painting Contractors Organi-
zation and the Signatory
Floor Covering Contractors.
The union workers quali-
fied for the bonuses after
completing seven classes (painters only) and
24 hours of voluntary skill-advancement train-
ing and safety courses over a 12-month period.
The STAR program was initiated in 2004
when Painters and Allied Trades District Coun-
cil No. 5 and the Signatory Painting Contrac-
tors Organization made a commitment to
each other to field the best-trained, highest
educated workforce in the industry. This led to
the creation of the Painters Union/Manage-
ment Partnership, or PUMP. The program is
funded by a cents-per-hour contribution ne-
gotiated in their collective bargaining agree-
ment. Local 1236 started funding its PUMP
program in 2010. Bonus checks were awarded
starting in 2012.
The following members received bonus
checks:
PAINTERS — Miguel Almanza, Jorge Arel-
lano, Raquel Avalos, Christopher Barela,
William Barney, Juan Bernal, Joe Bishop, Hum-
berto Blanco, Mike Bokamper, Timothy Brad-
field, Jose Bravo, Sean Carpenter, Brian Chung,
Angel Cuellar, Gregory Cunningham, Martin
Daniell, John Daniels, Frances Delandro, Ger-
ald Dooley, Harry Drury, Foo (Beng) Foong,
Jose Franquez, Jaime Garcia, Larry Goebel,
Hector Gonzalez, Sergio Gonzales, Timothy
Goodnight, Ian Gordon, Patrick Greene, Eileen
Grigat, Carlos Hernandez, Daniel Hill, Michael
Hocking, Darrell Holbrook, Jonathan Jaimez,
Damon Keene, Roger Kennedy, Jason Lay-
ton, Mark Lightner, Michael Llanos, Manuel
Lomeli, Moses Longoria, Eric Mann, Justin
Manning, Scott Marchant, Higinio Marcos-
Jimenez, Sean McCarthy, Julio Mena
Fuentes, Richard Mentzer, David Mercado,
Moises Mercado, James Meyer, Daryl Mid-
dleton, Joel Miller, Daniel Norman, Jason Os-
trowski, Ronald Pearson, Charles Pennell,
Jeff Phares, Rudy Ponder, Kenneth Rheel,
Francisco Rico, Atanacio Rodriguez, Steven
Rodriguez, Joel Roman-Fernandez, Moises
Romero, Jon Saiz, Kevin Sauers, Erin Scott,
James Shields, Vincent Spillman, Jeff
Splichal, Nicholas Sprecher, Todd Stange,
Matthew Svetich, Paul Swearingen, Jesus
Valencia, Amber Vankuren, Juan Carlos Vay-
lon, Noel Vega, Chris Vezaldenos, Seth Wan-
namaker, and Juan Zepeda.
FLOOR COVERERS — Jonathan Doran,
Jeff Hamilton, Loren Harshman, Steve Lut-
trell, Roberto Mendez Luna, Rodrigo
Morales-Corona, Michael Nguyen, Michael
Nielsen, Dave Rowden, Donald Rusk,
Thomas Schafer, Clinton Stone, Brent Tomp-
kins, Robert Wheeler, and Craig Wolf.
Union members can help fund
programs for Labor’s Community
Service Agency (LCSA) using
their Fred Meyer Rewards Card.
Fred Meyer, a union employer,
will donate $2.5 million to non-
profits in Oregon, Washington,
Alaska, and Idaho annually
through a new program it calls
Community Rewards. All you
have to do is link your Rewards
Card and use it when you shop at
Fred Meyer. Here’s how it works:
Link your Fred Meyer Re-
wards Card online to LCSA
(number 91427) at www.fred-
meyer.com/communityrewards.
Whenever you use your Re-
wards Card when shopping at
Fred Meyer, you’ll be helping La-
bor’s Community Service Agency
earn a donation. That’s because at
the end of each quarter, Fred
Meyer will make a donation to
participating non-profits based on
their percentage of spending as it
relates to the total spending of all
participating Fred Meyer Com-
munity Reward organizations.
And the great thing about it is
you still get to keep and use all of
your Fred Meyer rewards points,
fuel points and rebates.
Most purchases qualify for
Community Rewards, but some
items are not eligible, including
prescriptions, lottery tickets, fuel,
tobacco, and gift cards, to name a
few.
Washington AFL-CIO passes on congressional ‘fast track’ supporters
Washington congressional candidates
who voted for “Fast Track” Trade Promo-
tion Authority last year were not endorsed
by the Washington State Labor Council
(WSLC), including U.S. Sen. Patty Mur-
ray, who has challengers running for her
office.
Hundreds of delegates representing
some 600 unions from across Washing-
ton met May 21 in Seattle to vote on en-
dorsements for congressional, statewide
and legislative candidates. A two-thirds
majority vote is required for endorse-
ment.
The Washington primary election is
Aug. 2.
In addition to Murray, Democratic
Reps. Suzan DelBene, Rick Larsen, and
Derek Kilmer, plus all four of the state’s
Republican members of Congress were
not endorsed because of their support of
Fast Track. Fast Track is intended to
speed passage of the Trans-Pacific Part-
nership (TPP) — a free trade agreement
between 12 Pacific Rim nations —block-
ing Congress from changing it to protect
workers, consumers, or the environment.
“The fact that rank-and-file delegates
from across the state chose to make no
recommendation in these races, despite
some of these candidates’ excellent
records on other working family issues,
demonstrates how strongly the labor
movement feels about improving U.S.
trade policies,” said WSLC President
Jeff Johnson.
WSLC did endorse fellow union mem-
ber and Democratic State Rep. Jim
Moeller in his bid to unseat 3rd District
Republican Congresswoman Jaime Her-
rera Beutler. Moeller, 60, is a member of
the Oregon Federation of Nurses and
Health Professionals Local 5017 at Kaiser
Permanente, where he works as a chemi-
cal dependency counselor. Moeller has
represented the 49th Legislative District
since 2002. Prior to that he served eight
years on the Vancouver City Council.
The state of Washington uses the “Top
Two” system, which allows voters to
choose among all candidates running for
each office. Voters do not have to declare
a party affiliation to vote in the primary.
Candidates for partisan office may state
a preference for a political party, which
is listed on the ballot. The two candidates
who receive the most votes in the pri-
mary qualify for the General Election in
November.
Additional endorsement action will be
made at the WSLC’s 2016 Constitutional
Convention July 19-21 in Wenatchee.
The following candidates and initiatives
have been endorsed (or opposed) by the
Washington State Labor Council:
CONGRESS
CD 3 — Jim Moeller
STATEWIDE
Governor — Jay Inslee
Lt. Governor — Cyrus Habib
Insurance Commissioner — Mike Kreidler
Attorney General — Bob Ferguson
Lands Commissioner — Dave Upthegrove
Secretary of State — Tina Podlodowski
State Auditor — Jeff Sprung
Supt of Public Instruction — Chris Reykdal
SUPREME COURT
Position 1 — Mary Yu
Position 5 — Barbara Madsen
Position 6 — Charles Wiggins
LEGISLATIVE (SW WASHINGTON)
LD 17 Senate — Tim Probst
LD 17 Representative Pos. 1 — Sam Kim
LD 49 Senate — Annette Cleveland
LD 49 Rep Pos. 1 — Sharon Wylie
LD 49 Rep Pos. 2 — Monica Stonier
INITIATIVES
SUPPORT — Initiative 1433 on minimum
leave/sick leave (action taken previously)
OPPOSE — Initiative 732 on carbon taxes
SUPPORT — Initiative 735 to repeal Citi-
zens United
SUPPORT — Initiative 1501 to protect vul-
nerable individuals and in-home care-
givers
OPPOSE — Initiative 1515 on gender-seg-
regated facilities