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NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS | jecting a ballot measure to privatize the state’s workers’ compensation system. Build- ing trades back bid for private casino. Postal unions oppose move to eliminate Saturday mail service. ATU Local 757’s Ron Heintzman tapped as president of ATU international union. Machinists and Flight Attendants lose union elections at Delta Airlines. NLRB grinds to a halt as U.S. Senate fails to confirm board members. $1 billion Big Pipe project wraps up ahead of schedule. Soccer stadium deal comes with union neutrality and living wage commitments. Airport screeners in nation- wide campaign to unionize. 2011: Mass protests at state capitols, starting in Madison, Wisconsin, against plan to strip Wisconsin public employees of union rights. Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City spread world- wide within weeks; protest camp in downtown Portland evicted by police after 37 days. Con- gress ratifies NAFTA-style trade deals with Korea, Panama, and Colombia. 43,000 trans- portation security officers at 450 airports vote to join American Federation of Government Employees. Building trades union members perform a $144 million renovation of the Edith Green Wendell Wyatt Federal Building. Judge tosses a lawsuit by Bill Sizemore against sev- eral unions for calling him “racketeer.” 7,751 state-paid personal service providers join SEIU Local 503, making it Oregon’s largest union. Washingtonians vote to privatize liquor sales, in a ballot measure paid for by Costco. OSHA pulls rule on reporting ergonomics in- juries. International Longshore and Ware- house Union, shut out of operating EGT’s August 21, 2020 | PAGE 33 new $200 million grain terminal in Longview, Washington, ramps up protests with mass civil disobedience on railroad tracks, halting grain shipments. Rick Bender and Al Link re- tire as president and secretary treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council, pass the mantle to Jeff Johnson and Lynne Dod- son. 2012: Obama re-elected with union backing, but immediately after, union leaders Talented staffers keep Labor Press running Over the years the Labor Press has been blessed with a number of talented and dedi- cated full- and part-time staffers. In chronological order they include Alfred D. Cridge, Kel- ley Loe, Arthur Brock, Emsie Howard, Doris Clark, Ann Beckmann, Jean Soderberg Miller, Buford Sommers, Frank Flori, Bob Hulen, Gail Mason Rosebrook, Mary Lyons (MacKillop), Amy Klare, Debbie Sluyter, Patrick Philpott, Diane Whitehead, Bonnie Serino, and Cheri Rice. Regular contributors of articles and columns have in- cluded W.S. U’Ren, Colonel C.E.S. Wood. Tom Scanlon, George Roe, Tim Nesbitt, Tom Chamberlain, and Gra- ham Trainor. Current staff members are senior staff reporter Don McIntosh and office manager Jill Lukens. In addition to re- porting, McIntosh, 50, man- ages the online version of the newspaper. Lukens, 49, takes care of the meeting notices, circulation, billing and book- keeping. McIntosh came on staff in October 1998. Lukens joined the Labor Press in De- cember 2018. Both are mem- bers of Office and Profes- sional Employees Local 11. Don McIntosh Jill Lukens The Labor Press crew in 1990 consisted of from left to right: columnist and retired editor Gene Klare, office manager Debbie Sluyter, editor Michael Gutwig, reporter/photographer Bob Hulen, and typesetter/Newsletter Plus editor Pat Philpott. Wishing all Union Members a restful and hard-earned Labor Day Weekend
