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STARS OF THE PAINTERS/DRYWALL FINISHERS LOCAL 10 AND FLOOR COVERERS LOCAL 1236
Congratulations to members of
Painters & Drywall Finishers Lo-
cal 10 and Floor Coverers Local
1236 who received bonus awards
at the STAR Awards banquet May
31 in Troutdale. The union work-
ers qualified for the bonuses after
completing skill-advancement
training an safety courses. Local 10
members first must take 10 safety
classes, seven of which don’t ex-
pire. To get a $400 bonus they
must take eight additional hours
of voluntary skill advancement
training; to qualify for a $700
bonus they must complete 16 hours of
advanced training; and to score a $1,000
bonus they also must mentor an appren-
tice. Members of Local 1236 must com-
plete 24 hours of safety or industry re-
lated training in a calendar year.
The STAR program was initiated in
2004 when Painters and Allied Trades
District Council No. 5 and the Signatory
Painting Contractors Organization made a
commitment to each other to field the
best-trained workforce in the industry.
This led to the creation of the Painters
Union/Management Partnership, or
PUMP. The program is funded by a cents-
per-hour contribution negotiated in their
collective bargaining agreement. Local
1236 started funding its program in 2010.
The following members of Local 10 (pictured above left) re-
ceived bonus checks of $400, $700, or $1,000 depending on
the number of class requirements they met, plus a Makita
bluetooth speaker and a monogrammed Lucas ProFinish
paint brush.
PAINTERS: Jermie Ali, Joseluis Castellanos, Cody
Doney, Ryan Ely, Michael Keller, Andrew Kingery,
James McClara, Tearsa McVey, Destiny Mullis, Frank
Ramos, Tony Schmidt, and Timothy Simpson.
DRYWALL FINISHERS: David Aldaco, Richard
Apodaca, Horacio Arista, Max Cole, Tucker Crone,
Fernando Diaz, Nathan Glade, Luis Ibanez, Jose
Maciel, Juan Maldonado, Luis Ortiz Lopez, Jesus
Pedro, Daniel Radcliffe, and Sabato Schmidt-Urciuoli.
The following members of Local 1236 (pictured above right)
received bonus checks of $599, plus a Makita bluetooth
speaker and a $100 gift card to T&A Supply:
FLOOR COVERERS: Andrew Booth, Ryan
Burlingame, Nicholas Burnham, Adam Cornell,
Rodrigo Morales-Corona, Michael Ells, Dustin Hagan,
Loren Harshman, Kevin Lawrence, Roberto Mendez
Luna, Michael Nielsen, Kevin Palmer, Daniel Ramirez,
Donald Rusk, Thomas Schafer, Andrew Sparks, Vovka
Tarasenko, Brent Tompkins, Jake Underwood, Roger
Vidal, and Ryan Weeks.
Ryan Ely with
monogrammed
paint brush.