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Newspaper Page TextNORTHWEST LABOR PRESS | September 16, 2016 | PAGE 3 UNIONIZATION ] JULY-AUG 2016 The following are Oregon and Southwest Washington workplaces where workers have decided 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. The information comes from the National Labor Relations Board and the Oregon Employment Relations Board. Union election results Employer (Location) Union Yes-No = Peacehealth St. John Medical Ctr. reception (Longview) SEIU Local 49 Commercial Aircraft Painting Services (Portland) Machinists W24 GBW Railcar Services railcar repair (Chehalis) Sheet Metal Local 66 Universal Recycling Technologies (Clackamas) Steelworkers Dist 12 Menzies Aviation cabin cleaners (Portland) SEIU Local 49 Cowlitz Family Health Ctr. (Longview) Machinists Lodge W536 Cowlitz Family Health Ctr. (Longview) Machinists Lodge W536 Heritage Glass (Portland) Glass Workers Local 740 70-43 80-68 39-37 12-12 14-0 22-10 0-6 6-9 ^ ^ ^ % ^ ^ % % Unionization by majority signup Employer (Location) Union Crook County Fire and Rescue (Prineville) International Assn. of Fire Fighters ■ 13 firefighter/paramedics, lieutenants and captains Support for TPP costs Gov. Kate Brown endorsement from Oregon Machinists Gov. Kate Brown’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has cost her an endorse- ment from the Machinists Non- Partisan Political League (MNPL), the political arm of Machinists District W24. Brown, a Democrat, is run- ning for re-election in November. “We had every intention of endorsing her, but when she came out in favor of the TPP, our support ended,” said John Hall, secretary-treasurer of the 2,300-member Machinists Lodge 63 and chair of the MNPL. Hall said the Machinists’ in- ternational union is dead-set Menzies cabin cleaners go union at PDX A group of 53 aircraft cabin cleaners at Portland Interna- tional Airport has joined Service Employees (SEIU) Local 49. The workers are employees of Menzies Aviation, which has a contract to clean planes for Alaska Airlines as well as for its subsidiary Horizon Airlines and 140 partner SkyWest Airlines. The tally was 14-0 for the union in an Aug. 16 election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). A majority of the workers had previously signed union cards. Workers wanted to unionize because of concerns about safety, turnover, and the lack of a livable wage, said Local 49 spokesperson Jesse Stemmler in an email. Most workers in the group are paid minimum wage, and even lead cabin cleaners make just $12 to $14 an hour. Menzies earlier tried to avoid the NLRB election by making legal arguments that the cabin cleaners should unionize under the Railway Labor Act, not the In Clackamas County WE SUPPORT Jim Bernard for County Chair Ken Humberston for County Commissioner Position 4 NW Oregon Labor Council, AFL-CIO Paid for and authorized by NW Oregon Labor Council National Labor Relations Act. Under the Railway Labor Act, the workers would have had to unionize every location nation- wide. But a federal administra- tive law judge rejected those ar- guments, and ruled that Menzies is not an airline, and that Alaska Airlines doesn’t directly oversee the work of Menzies employees. SEIU represents Menzies workers at Los Angeles Interna- tional Airport. against the TPP. “Our union has lost thousands of jobs due to bad trade deals. Our international has said ‘anyone who supports the TPP, we won’t support.’” TPP is a NAFTA-style pact between the United States and 11 Pacific Rim nations, includ- ing three that have poor human rights records and no current trade agreement with the U.S. Organized labor strongly op- poses the TPP, and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump say they don’t support it. TPP negotiations concluded last October, but to take effect, the pact must be approved by Congress. Unions affiliated with Ma- chinists District W24 represent workers at Boeing, Freightliner, and a number of automotive re- pair shops and general manu- facturing companies in Oregon.