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PAGE 28 | August 21, 2020 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS MEETING NOTICES AFSCME 88 Laborers/Vancouver 335 Executive Board meeting will be held virtually at 6 p.m. Wednesday, September 2. Any member in good standing may attend as a non-voting visitor. General Membership Meetings will be held virtually at 6 p.m. Wednesday, September 16. More informa- tion on how to join will be coming out as we get closer to the date. Check the website for updates. Meetings have been canceled until further notice. AFSCME 189 The August general membership meeting has been canceled due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Check the web site at afscme189.com for updates. Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers 114 Executive Board will meet via Zoom at 9 a.m Tuesday, August 25. “Money Matters” Commit- tee Appointed. Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers 1 Meetings have been canceled until further notice. Cement Masons 555 Membership meetings are canceled until further no- tice. Executive Board will meet via Zoom. Drywall Finishers 101 All meetings have been canceled until further notice due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Laborers 483 All meetings have been canceled until further notice. Laborers 737 All meetings have been canceled until further notice. Operating Engineers 701 All meetings have been canceled until further notice. Painters 10 All meetings have been canceled until further notice due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Plasterers 82 Membership meetings are canceled until further no- tice. Executive Board will meet via Zoom. Plumbers and Fitters 290 Membership meetings canceled until further notice. Roofers & Waterproofers 49 General membership meetings have been canceled due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Sheet Metal Workers 16 Membership meet Wednesday, August 19 @ 6:00 p.m. via Zoom. Members must email info@smw16.org with the fol- lowing information in order to get a link sent to them: Name, Membership #, Current email address. Electrical Workers 48 RENEW meets 6 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month. This will be an informal “check-in” via zoom. Executive Board meets 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of the month via Zoom. No visitors at this time. Coast Unit meets 6 p.m. the first Thursday of every month. This will be an informal “check-in” via zoom. Electrical Workers Minority Caucus meets 6 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month via zoom. Residential Unit meets 5 p.m. on the second Wednes- day of every month. This will be an informal “check- in” via Zoom. Sound and Communication Unit meeting canceled. Wasco Unit meeting canceled. Washington Unit meeting canceled. Sisters in Solidarity of Local 48 meets 6 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. 2700, Robert E. Carson; No. 2701, Vernon Cruse.; No. 2702, Albert A. Hostetler. The August 2020 assessment is $1.50 CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Northwest Oregon Electrical Workers 280 METAL TRADES Portland and Vicinity All meetings are canceled until further notice. Elevator Constructors 23 NOTE: Membership meeting is canceled. Execu- tive Board meets Thursday, Sept. 10, at 5 p.m. at 12067 NE Glenn Widing Drive, #108, Portland. Fire Fighters 452 Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, September 2, at 2807 NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver. Fire Fighters 1660 No July or August meetings. Floor Coverers 1236 All meetings have been canceled until further notice. 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 have been canceled until further notice. Iron Workers Shopmen 516 General membership meeting is canceled. Executive Board will meet with social distancing. NOTE: The Aug. 24 delegates’ meeting was rescheduled and held Monday, Aug. 10 via Zoom. Southwest Washington Delegates will meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, 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 teleconfer- encing. Check your chapter for details. BUILDING TRADES COUNCILS Columbia-Pacific Meetings will be held via Zoom. Email Willy Mey- ers for an invitation. All meetings have been canceled until further notice. HAPPENINGS Virtual Labor Day With all the union-sponsored Labor Day pic- nics canceled due to the coronavirus pan- demic, the Oregon AFL-CIO will host a statewide “Virtual Labor Day” celebration and call to action Monday, September 7, at noon. “ Each year, we observe Labor Day to recognize and renew our commitment as trade unionists to the fight for a fair and just economy for all,” the state labor federation said in a statement. “Working Oregonians are facing three crises at once: a deadly global pandemic, an economic freefall, and long-standing structural and institutional racism. Hear from Oregon’s labor leaders, elected officials, and working Oregonians on the need for change as we continue our pursuit towards justice for all working peo- ple.” LEARN MORE AT WWW.ORAFLCIO.ORG Coos Bay, and 250 workers at the corporate headquarters in Portland. Bakers Local 114 strikes Beaverton Bakery. Public employees unions file lawsuits to stop voter-approved Measure 8, which requires public employees to take a pay cut of 6% and contribute that amount into their pension funds. Oregon building trades unions defeat Ballot Measure 12, which would have repealed state prevail- ing wage laws. 1995: Thomas Donahue re- places Lane Kirkland as interim president of AFL-CIO. John Sweeney, Richard Trumka and Linda Chavez-Thompson are elected to lead the national AFL-CIO in “New Voice” campaign. 15,000 members of Oregon Public Employees Union stage largest public work- ers’ strike in Oregon history. Portland Mayor Vera Katz signs pact with District Council of Trade Unions, temporarily protecting 800 city employees from pay cuts associated with Measure 8. AFL-CIO joins Columbia River Al- liance in denouncing a court-ordered federal plan to save salmon in the Columbia and Snake rivers, saying it would shatter the re- gional economy. Coalition of labor, religious and community groups forms to try to stop closure of Bess Kaiser Medical Center in north Portland, to no avail. Senate Bill 750 passes to exclude working conditions as a mandatory subject of public employee bar- gaining. AFL-CIO establishes a relief fund for victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. Port of Portland selects Cascade General to op- erate ship repair yard. Machinists strike Boe- ing for 69 days. 1996: Machinists strike at Voith Sulzer Papertechnology; workers are replaced and union is decertified. Govern- ment Employees rally in downtown Portland to protest partial shutdown of federal govern- ment because of budget battles with House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Portland unionists on front lines shoring up banks of flooding Willamette River in downtown Portland. Port- land City Council placed on Unfair List of Northwest Oregon Labor Council at request of Fire Fighters Local 43. National AFL-CIO’s “America Needs a Raise” campaign comes ATU Local 757 confronts the TriMet Board of Directors in 1992 after the transit agency board re- jected a contract that had been ratified by a 95% margin after six months of heated bargain- ing. Some 7,000 mem- bers of UFCW Lo- cal 555 struck the grocery and meat industry in Port- land for 87 days in 1994. Fred Meyer was the targeted store, but when the strike began the other union grocers locked out workers. 50,000 demonstrators take to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the World Trade Organization.
