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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
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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