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PAGE 4 | November 6, 2020 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS UNION DEMOCRACY UNION MEETING NOTICES AFSCME 189 Iron Workers Shopmen 516 CENTRAL LABOR CHAPTERS All meetings have been canceled due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Check the web site at www.afscme189.com for updates. Executive Board meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Novem- ber 12. Special Union Meeting: Saturday November 21, at 10:00 a.m. Meeting date and time changed due to Thanksgiving holiday, and in the event a quorum is not present on that date to conduct regular local union business. Meetings are at Iron Workers Training Center and Union Hall, 11620 NE Ainsworth Cir., Portland. NOTE: Regular union meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m. (except November and December); Chapters have moved to teleconfer- encing. Check your chapter for de- tails. Laborers/Vancouver 335 Lane County Meetings have been canceled until further notice. Delegates teleconference 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 25. Contact Pat Riggs Henson at hen- son2831@comcast.net. Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers 114 Executive Board will meet via Zoom at 9:00 am Tuesday November 10, 2020, followed by a Gen- eral Membership Meeting. PLEASE NOTE: Nominations of Officers / Whistle Blower and conflict of Interest Policies. Currently all membership meetings are held via Zoom. Therefore, any member in good standing, who wishes to attend must RSVP no later than 12:00 noon of the day proceeding the General Membership meeting. 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. 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 Wednesday of every month. This will be an informal “check-in” via Zoom. Sound and Communication Unit meeting can- celed. 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. 2714, Ernest D. Pine; No. 2715, Wesley D. Drury; No. 2716, Peter Britz; No. 2717, Milford C. Bronson; No. 2718, Glenn E. Plance. The November 2020 assessment is $1.50 Electrical Workers 280 Meetings are canceled until further notice. Elevator Constructors 23 Executive Board meet 5 p.m. Thursday, November 12, at 12067 NE Glenn Widing Drive, #108, Port- land. Fire Fighters 452 Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 4, at 2807 NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver. Fire Fighters 1660 Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, November 12, at 4411 SW Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego. Floor Coverers 1236 All meetings have been canceled until further no- tice. 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. Laborers 483 Central Oregon Delegates will meet by teleconference 5:30 p.m. Monday, November 30. Eastern Oregon Meetings are canceled until further notice. Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 17. PLEASE NOTE: Meetings will be conducted virtually. Attendance requires pre-registration via email. Contact the office if you do not already re- ceive email invitations. Linn-Benton-Lincoln Laborers 737 Delegates will meet by teleconference 6 p.m. Monday, November 9. Contact Will Music at mpyclc@gmail.com PLEASE NOTE: Per the action of the Executive Board and the International Variance to allow video conference Union meetings due to the COVID-19 restrictions remaining in effect, Local 737 will hold regular membership meetings on- line via RingCentral. Meetings will be held on the third Thursday of the month with the next meeting being November 19. All meetings will begin at 6 p.m. and can be logged into via https:llmeetings. ringcentral.com/ join with meeting ID 148 508 9028. The log-in process will begin at 5:30 p.m. to allow for verification of membership. Once the meeting is started it will be closed to entry. If you have any questions please call the office at 541 801-2209. Operating Engineers 701 Meetings are canceled until further notice. Painters 10 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 no- tice. Roofers & Waterproofers 49 General membership meetings have been canceled due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Sheet Metal Workers 16 Membership meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, via Zoom. Members must email info@smw16.org with the following information in order to get a link sent to them: Name, Membership #, current e-mail ad- dress. Sign Painters & Paint Makers 1094 Meetings are canceled until further notice. USW 139 (B) Membership meetings have been canceled until further notice due to the COVID-19 virus pan- demic. Executive Board will meet via conference call at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, November 21. CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Northwest Oregon Delegates will meet via Zoom at 4 p.m. Monday, November 30. Login information will be emailed to delegates prior to the meeting. Southwest Washington Delegates will meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Decem- ber 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 num- ber and a code to enter. Be sure to call in a cou- ple minutes before 6 p.m. Meetings are canceled until further notice. Marion-Polk-Yamhill North Coast Delegates will meet by teleconference 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 17. Southern Oregon Delegates will meet by teleconference 6 p.m. Tuesday, November 10. Contact Amanda Sager at president@iatse154.com. BUILDING TRADES COUNCILS Columbia-Pacific Meetings will be held via Zoom every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Email Willy Meyers for an invitation. METAL TRADES Portland and Vicinity All meetings have been canceled until further no- tice. RETIREE MEETINGS Check with your local retirees club to see if meetings have been canceled . Union coalitions at shipyards, Portland, PPS under new leadership Pat Christensen, a business rep for Plumbers and Fitters Local 290, has retired, leav- ing vacant top leadership spots at the Metal Trades Council of Portland & Vicinity, the District Coun- cil of Unions (DCU) at Portland Public Schools, and the District Council of Trade Unions (DCTU) at the City of Portland. Metal Trades Council shipyards is good. “We see more work coming on the books. We’re feeling good about the new owner group … We’re pick- ing up more work be- cause of it.” Vigor In- dustrial was bought in Scott Oldham will July 2019 by the Car- head Metal Trades lyle Group, a global investment firm, and Stellex Capital Man- agement, a private eq- uity firm. The Metal Trades Council is a coalition of 10 unions that represents workers at DCTU and DCU the Swan Island shipyards IBEW Local 48 busi- in Portland, as well as facil- ness rep Jenna Bazner ities in Clackamas and was vice president at Vancouver. To succeed Jenna Bazner will both DCU and DCTU, Christensen as its president, lead DCTU, DCU and succeeded Chris- Painters and Allied Trades tensen as president District Council 5 business repre- per those councils’ bylaws. sentative Scott Oldham was DCU is a coalition of 13 craft elected. Oldham had been the unions that represent more than 80 council’s vice president. Laborers maintenance employees at PPS. It Local 737 business rep Rick ratified a new four-year agreement Ohmie was elected vice president, in February. defeating Brian Richart, assistant DCTU is a coalition of six business manager of Boilermakers unions that bargain jointly for Local 104. Elections were held about 1,220 city worker. It’s in the Oct. 12. Oldham and Ohmie will midst of negotiating a new con- fill out the terms of office that ex- tract. City employees are working pire on Dec. 31, 2021. Contracts under a six-month extension of the are in place through 2021, and Old- previous contract, which expires ham said the work outlook at the Dec. 31, 2020.
