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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.