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PAGE 4 | April 2, 2021 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS UNION MEETING NOTICES AFSCME 189 All meetings have been canceled due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. Check afscme189.com for updates. Bakers 114 Executive Board will meet via Zoom at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 27. Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers 1 in” via Zoom. Marine Unit meeting cancelled. General Membership meeting cancelled. Please monitor IBEW48.com or the Facebook page for changes to the schedule. DEATH ASSESSMENTS: No. 2747, Lall Jagroop. The April 2021 assessment is $1.50 Electrical Workers 280 Meetings are canceled until further notice. Meetings are canceled until further notice. Elevator Constructors 23 Cement Masons 555 Executive Board meet 5 p.m. Thursday, April 8, at 12067 NE Glenn Widing Drive, #108, Portland. Meetings are canceled until further notice. Drywall Finishers 101 Membership meetings are the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. via Zoom, due to COVID restric- tions. Next meeting is Monday, April 5. Contact Kirk Malcom for more details. Reminder that if you attend eight meetings in 2021 you will receive a union jacket. 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. on 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- celled. Wasco Unit meeting cancelled. Washington Unit meeting cancelled. 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- ter and Union Hall, 11620 NE Ainsworth Circle, Roofers & Waterproofers 49 Laborers/Vancouver 335 Meetings are canceled until further notice. Meetings are canceled until further notice. Sheet Metal Workers 16 Laborers 483 Membership meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, 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. Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 20. PLEASE NOTE: Meetings will be conducted virtu- ally. Attendance requires pre-registration via email. Contact the office if you do not already receive email invitations. Laborers 737 All meetings have been canceled until further notice, due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. 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 online via RingCen- tral. Meetings will be held on the third Thursday of the month with the next meeting April 15. All meet- ings 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. Glass Workers 740 Operating Engineers 701 Fire Fighters 452 Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, at 2807 NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver. Fire Fighters 1660 Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, April 8, at 4411 SW Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego. Floor Coverers 1236 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 are at 7:00 p.m. first Thursday of each month. Next meeting Thursday, May 6. Meetings will be conducted virtually, requires preregistration. Iron Workers Shopmen 516 Regular union meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Next regular meeting Thursday, April 22. Executive Board meets the second Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Next meeting Thursday, April 8. Meetings are held at the Iron Workers Training Cen- All meetings have been canceled until further notice. Painters Local 10 Meetings are canceled until further notice. Sign Painters & Paint Makers 1094 Meetings are canceled until further notice. Plasterers 82 Executive Board will meet via Zoom Wednesday, April 7, at 4 p.m. General membership meetings are canceled until further notice. Plumbers and Fitters 290 Members Informational Meetings are held the third Friday of the month at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Contact the Union Hall with any questions (503) 691-5700. USW 139 (B) Membership meetings have been canceled until fur- ther notice due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Executive Board will meet via conference call at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 17. CENTRAL LABOR CHAPTERS Central Oregon Delegates will meet by teleconference 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 26. Eastern Oregon Meetings are canceled until further notice. Lane County CENTRAL LABOR COUNCILS Northwest Oregon Delegates will meet via Zoom at 4 p.m. Monday, April 26. Login information will be emailed to dele- gates prior to the meeting. Southwest Washington Delegates will meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, 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 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 couple minutes before 6 p.m. BUILDING TRADES COUNCILS Columbia-Pacific On site meetings have been canceled until further notice. Meetings will be held via Zoom every Tues- day at 10 a.m. Email Willy Meyers for an invitation. Delegates teleconference 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 28. Contact Jeff McGillivray at jeffm@ua290.org METAL TRADES COUNCIL Portland and Vicinity Linn-Benton-Lincoln Meetings are canceled until further notice. Meetings are canceled until further notice. Marion-Polk-Yamhill Delegates will meet by teleconference 6 p.m. Mon- day, April 12. Contact Will Music at mpyclc@gmail.com North Coast Delegates will meet by teleconference 7 p.m. Tues- day, April 20. RETIREE MEETINGS Plumbers & Fitters 290 Retired Local 290 members meet the third Thursday of the month at 10 a.m. via Zoom. Contact Teri Geter with any questions (541) 646-1493. Southern Oregon Delegates will meet by teleconference 6 p.m. Tues- day, April 13. Contact Amanda Sager at president@iatse154.com Postal unions alarmed by parts of postmaster general’s plan WASHINGTON, D.C.—Post- master General Louis DeJoy presented a 10-year plan to “save” the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) March 23. Entitled “De- livering for America,” the 58- page plan would slow first class mail delivery, reduce post office operating hours, and raise prices. The plan also calls for ending a congressional mandate to pre- fund retiree health care, some- thing postal unions have also been calling for. That require- ment costs USPS nearly $5 bil- lion a year. DeJoy is a corporate execu- tive and big Republican donor who was named postmaster gen- eral last May by Trump ap- pointees on the USPS Board of Governors, despite concerns about financial conflicts of inter- est. DeJoy and his wife have more than $30 million invested in XPO Logistics, a Postal Serv- ice contractor, and as much as $300,000 invested in United Par- cel Service. Postal unions were critical of parts of DeJoy’s plan for the USPS and its 644,000 workers. Most USPS employees are union members, and many of them veterans. The unions agree with De- Joy’s proposals to repeal the re- quirement to pre-fund retiree health insurance, and to preserve six-day and seven-day mail de- livery. Postal unions have noted that without the $5 billion yearly prepayment on health insur- ance—something no other com- pany or federal agency is re- quired to do—USPS would turn a profit most years. They agree too with DeJoy’s proposal that new postal retirees be integrated into Medicare, an- other money-saving measure. They also welcomed DeJoy’s promise to replace the USPS’ decades-old vehicle fleet with an all-electric fleet by 2035, to open 46 new sorting centers to handle the USPS’ growing—and in- creasingly profitable—package delivery business, and to mod- ernize local post offices. USPS delivers nearly half of global mail volume. With its na- tionwide network delivering to every home and business, USPS handles the “last mile” of pack- age delivery not just for itself, but for private firms, notably UPS, which is unionized, and FedEx, which isn’t. Those “last miles,” especially in rural areas, aren’t profitable, the private firms say. DeJoy estimated the package delivery upgrade would earn USPS a net of $24 billion over the next decade. But DeJoy also proposed “set- ting new delivery standards” for first-class mail, still the USPS’s prime money-maker despite the pandemic downturn and prior shifts of business to the Internet. DeJoy’s proposal to set a 70% standard for first-class delivery “within three days or less,” would be a worsening of current standards. That drew congressional ire. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), whose Oversight panel’s Gov- ernment Operations subcommit- tee would have the House’s first crack at postal legislation, said DeJoy’s plan “guarantees the death spiral of the United States Postal Service.” “Customers and Congress are fed up with DeJoy’s service cuts and record delays,” Connolly said. “The only way to right this ship is new leadership, a better vision, and a realistic plan that serves all.” After taking over as postmas- ter general last year, DeJoy over- saw the removal of package sort- ing machines, and a reduction in overtime approvals, which re- sulted in undelivered mail piling up. The USPS inspector general reported that mail delivery over- all showed sharp declines after DeJoy took over. (Editor’s Note: Press Associ- ates Inc. contributed to this re- port.)
