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June 5, 2020 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
UNION MEETING NOTICES
AFSCME 189
Operating Engineers 701
All meetings in April have been canceled due to the
COVID-19 virus pandemic.Check the web site at
www.afscme189.com for updates.
All meetings have been canceled until further notice.
Bakery, Confectionery,
Tobacco Workers and
Grain Millers 114
Painters & Drywall Finishers 10
All meetings have been canceled until further notice
due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Meetings have been canceled until further notice.
Sign Painters & Paint Makers
1094
Bricklayers and Allied
Craftworkers 1
Plasterers 82
Meetings have been canceled until further notice.
Cement Masons 555
Membership meetings are canceled until further no-
tice. Executive Board will meet via Zoom
Electrical Workers 48
RENEW meets 6:00 p.m. on the first Tuesday of
every month. This will be an informal “check-in” via
zoom.
Executive Board meets 6:00 p.m. on the first and
third Wednesday of the month via Zoom No Visitors
at this time.
Coast Unit meets 6:00 p.m. on the first Thursday of
every month. This will be an informal “check-in” via
zoom.
Electrical Workers Minority Caucus meets 6:00
p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month via zoom.
Residential Unit meets 5:00 p.m. on the second
Wednesday of every month. This will be an informal
“check-in” via zoom.
Sound and Communication Unit canceled.
Wasco Unit meeting canceled.
Washington Unit meeting canceled.
Sisters in Solidarity of Local 48 meets 6:00 p.m. on
the third Monday of every month via zoom.
Public Sector Unit – date to be determined, please
watch the web site. This will be an informal “check-
in” via zoom.
Marine Unit meeting canceled.
General Membership Meeting canceled.
Please monitor the IBEW48.COM website for
changes to the schedule.
DEATH ASSESSMENTS:
No. 2690, William P. Fleming Sr; No. 2692, Louie
Wayman.; No. 2693, Steve A. Parsons; No. 2694,
Mark A. Scott; No. 2695, Anthony J. Smith.
The June 2020 assessment is $1.50
Electrical Workers 280
All meetings are canceled until further notice.
Elevator Constructors 23
The June membership meeting has been canceled.
Fire Fighters 452
Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 6, at 2807
NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver.
Meetings have been canceled until further notice due
to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Membership meetings are canceled until further no-
tice. Executive Board will meet via Zoom.
Plumbers and Fitters 290
Membership meetings are canceled until further no-
tice.
Roofers & Waterproofers 49
All meetings in April have been canceled due to the
COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Sheet Metal Workers 16
Meetings are canceled until further notice.
USW 139 (B)
Meetings have been canceled until further notice due
to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
Northwest Oregon
All meetings are canceled until further notice due
to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Southwest Washington
Delegates will meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 1, on
line via AnyMeeting. Delegates can call in from a
computer, smart phone or tablet. Login requires you
to download the AnyMeeting app. If you participate
via your computer, Anymeeting works best with
Google Chrome. If you plan to participate by calling
in on your phone, the invitation will include a phone
number and a code to enter. Be sure to call in a cou-
ple minutes before 6 p.m.
CENTRAL LABOR CHAPTERS
Chapters have moved to teleconferencing.
Check with your chapter for details.
Central Oregon
Delegates teleconference 5:30 p.m. Monday, June
22.
Eastern Oregon
Meetings are canceled until further notice.
Lane County
Fire Fighters 1660
Delegates teleconference 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June
24. Contact Pat Riggs Henson at henson2831@com-
cast.net
Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, April 9, at 4411 SW
Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego.
Linn-Benton-Lincoln
Floor Coverers 1236
All meetings have been canceled until further notice
due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Glass Workers 740
All meetings have been canceled until further notice
due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Insulators 36
Meetings are canceled until further notice.
Iron Workers 29
Meetings are canceled until further notice.
Marion-Polk-Yamhill
Delegates teleconference 6 p.m. Monday, June 8.
Contact Will Music at mpyclc@gmail.com
North Coast
Delegates teleconference 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 16.
Southern Oregon
Delegates teleconference 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 9.
Contact Amanda Sager at president@iatse154.com
Iron Workers Shopmen 516
BUILDING TRADES COUNCILS
Columbia-Pacific
General membership meeting in June is canceled.
Executive Board will meet with social distancing on
Thursday, June 11.
On site meetings have been canceled until further
notice. Meetings will be held via Zoom. Email Willy
Meyers for an invitation.
Meetings have been canceled until further notice.
Laborers/Vancouver 335
Meetings have been canceled until further notice.
Laborers 483
Municipal Employees
All meetings have been canceled until further notice.
Laborers 737
All meetings have been canceled until further notice.
METAL TRADES
Portland and Vicinity
All meetings have been canceled until further notice.
RETIREE MEETINGS
CHECK WITH YOUR LOCAL RETIREES
CLUB TO SEE IF MEETINGS HAVE BEEN
CANCELED.
Unions: Vote by mail now more than ever
By Noah Wass
The push for national vote-by-
mail is timelier than ever in the
midst of a pandemic, but postal
union leaders say it won’t matter
much if the U.S. Postal Service
isn’t around. Barring significant
federal appropriation from Con-
gress, the U.S. Postal Service
will run out of operating funds
by the end of September.
“Over and over again we have
proven that we can process and
deliver ballots in a secure and
timely way for tens of millions
of people, for absentee ballots
and overseas voters,” said Amer-
ican Postal Workers Union pres-
ident Mark Dimondstein in a
May 27 press call with national
postal union leaders. “With the
pandemic, I think it’s even
clearer if people are going to
have access to the ballot box we
have got to have a vibrant postal
service.”
In 2000, Oregon became the
first state to conduct a general
presidential election entirely by
mail, and since then members of
Oregon’s Congressional delega-
tion have championed its expan-
sion. Congressman Earl Blume-
nauer introduced a bill March 11
to require states to allow regis-
tered voters to vote by mail
when at least 25% of states have
declared a state of emergency
due to natural disaster or infec-
tious disease. And on March 18
SAVE THE POSTAL SERVICE
A socially distanced, masked rally and
march starts 11am, Tuesday, June 16
at East Portland Post Office, 1020 SE
7th Ave Details at bit.ly/2Mx6pSd
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden joined
Minnesota Senator Amy
Klobuchar in introducing a bill
to ensure that all voters have the
option to vote by mail during an
emergency.
President Trump has attacked
vote-by-mail however.
“There is NO WAY (ZERO!)
that Mail-In Ballots will be any-
thing less than substantially
fraudulent. Mail boxes will be
robbed, ballots will be forged &
even illegally printed out &
fraudulently signed,” Trump
tweeted May 26. Twitter re-
sponded by appending a fact-
checking link to the president’s
tweet for the first time ever,
pointing out that there’s no evi-
dence that mail-in ballots are
linked to voter fraud.
Though Trump may try to
portray vote-by-mail as a parti-
san issue, a recent Reuters/IP-
SOS poll shows that 72% of
American adults are in favor of
vote-by-mail for the Nov. 3 elec-
tion, and election administrators
in at least seven Republican-led
states have expanded vote-by-
mail with bi-partisan support.
Letter carriers work long
AFL-CIO endorses Biden
WASHINGTON. D.C (PAI) —
By vote of its general board, the
national AFL-CIO formally en-
dorsed presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee Joe Biden
for election in 2020. The en-
dorsement, announced in a 10-
minute speech May 26 by labor
federation President Richard
Trumka, was expected.
The AFL-CIO’s nod clears
the way for the federation to
mobilize its unions’ millions of
members, their families and
their allies to elect Biden.
Trumka said President Don-
ald Trump’s disastrous handling
of the coronavirus pandemic—
which has sickened more than
1.7 million people and killed
more than 100,000—would be a
top issue on the campaign trail.
Trump’s track record on the
coronavirus, Trumka said, has
been disorganized and deadly.
And his track record on worker
health and safety and collective
bargaining rights has been
dreadful, he added.
“Worse yet, Donald Trump
has used the highest office in the
land to divide America, scape-
goating immigrants, degrading
women and playing on people’s
worst fears,” Trumka declared.
Trumka said “I get it,” in dis-
cussing why millions of workers
and their families turned to
Trump in 2016, especially in the
key swing states of the industrial
Midwest: Ohio, Wisconsin,
Michigan and his home state of
Pennsylvania. Symbolic of the
shift was Trumka’s home in
Pennsylvania’s farthest south-
western corner. That small coal-
mining county, including his
hometown of Nemacolin, went
for Trump by almost 3-to-1.
Those workers were desper-
ately looking for a change from
40 years of anti-worker policies
from politicians of both parties,
and from an economy that
worked against workers,
Trumka said. Trump promised
it, but hasn’t delivered. Biden,
Trumka said, will do so.
hours on overburdened routes to
deliver election mail, but say
they are proud to accomplish it.
“Every election year the
workload increases, and it’s hec-
tic for us carriers,” said Randall
Hoxie, a letter carrier in South-
east Portland and a steward for
Branch 82 of the National Asso-
ciation of Letter Carriers. “But
this is the most challenging out
of my experience in 16 years at
the post office, with the virus and
the number of people out sick.”
Hoxie said the average carrier
is stressed out.
“But with solidarity, I believe
we can get through this,” Hoxie
said.
USPS is in financial trouble
chiefly because in 2006 Con-
gress mandated that it pre-pay
retiree health benefits up to 75
years in advance. Since then, the
resulting financial burden has
led to operating losses at the
Postal Service. A dramatic drop-
off in mail volume since March
has made its financial position
much worse.
Blumenauer told the Labor
Press the House included $25
billion in direct funding for the
USPS in the HEROES Act, a
second round stimulus bill that
passed the House May 15. But
the bill has not moved forward
in the Republican-controlled
Senate.
Glazier
Apprenticeship
Accepting
Applications
The Oregon & SW Washington
Glaziers, Architectural Metal &
Glass Workers Joint
Apprenticeship & Journeyman
Training Program will be open
to accept applications to create
a pool of eligible applicants.
Applicants must be at least 18
years old, and must apply in
person and furnish a copy of a
high school diploma and grade
transcript or GED and test
scores at time of application.
Applications will be taken
July 6 through July 17, 2020
Monday through Friday,
9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m.
Face masks are required
and a limited number of
applicants will be allowed in
the building at one time.
Glaziers Training Center
Mt. Hood Community College
Room GE 108
26000 SE Stark St., Gresham, OR
Women and minorities are
encouraged to apply;
Veterans’ GI Benefits may apply