DISTRICT 3S: District Director (2 positions available)
What are your qualifications
for this office?
Name
Barton (Bart) T.
Lewis
UofO
Annette Woodmark
Justice
Union Experience:
Why are you seeking
this office, your goals?
District Director 3 South
(2002-04).
Chairperson of District 3 CAPE
Committee (2002-04).
Completed Leadership
Training, Levels 1 and 2.
Chairperson of the SEIU
Relationship Committee,
Chairperson of the Higher Ed
Bargaining Team (2000-01),
District 3 South Secretary-
Treasurer, member of the
Statewide Finance Committee,
steward, General Council
Delegate, and delegate to the
SEIU International Convention.
Also, phone-banking and can
vassing.
I want to use my experience as
an activist to further the mis
sion of SEIU Local 503.1
believe in worker empower
ment through a progressive
union. It is up to us to shape
the future. We can't leave it up
to the wealthy, the corpora
tions, or the politicians in
Salem.
I am a Lane County
Democratic Precinct Person
and do staff screening for
SEIU. I was a SEIU
Membership Organizing
Coordinator for the 2002
Election Campaign and have
since lobbied for SEIU on sev
eral occasions. My past SEIU
and OPEU union experience
includes being a shop steward
at OSAC from 2001 to 2003,
the Oregon Employment Dept
1997 to 2000, and at EOH&TC
1981 to 1984.
Since 1998 I was the Vice
President of the Employment
Dept Local representing
District 5, and was also the Vice
President and Acting President
of my local at Eastern Oregon
Hospital & Training Center
from 1983 until that Facility
closed. I represented District 5
as the Temporary District
Director for 6 months. I have
been a representative on the
CAPE for Districts 3 and 5 for
four years.
To further exercise my duty as a
member of SEIU, to remain
actively involved with the gov
ernance of my Union. My goals
for SEIU Local 503 is to educate
the membership to all the
opportunities available to every
SEIU member to become
actively involved in the organ
izing and governance of our
union and the value of the
SEIU organizing model.
Goals for your District?
1. Increase attendance at district
meetings by responding to
member concerns, inviting
interesting guest speakers, and
scheduling valuable training.
And I will work with local
officers to build a meaningful
relationship between the locals
and the districts.
2. More 3 South representation
on statewide committees.
3. Turn out more members for
District Lobby Days. We need
to be more politically involved
if we want any kind of a future
for public services.
4. Increase union visibility at
public events and let everyone
know we are from SEIU.
To recruit active participation
of more members within
District 3 through development
of educational formats and
other opportunities available to
the membership beyond the
individual worksites. I would
like to see more individuals in
District 3 become more active
ly involved so more voices will
be heard.
Biggest single issue/how
to resolve?
Other info:
Funding for public services is
THE biggest issue. The way to
resolve it is through POLITICAL
ACTIVISM. This means internal
organizing around state budget
issues, district lobbying, getting
out the vote, and participating
in the SEIU public service
advertising campaign.
Due to the failure of Ballot
Measure 30, our next Contract
Bargaining Team will be facing
many of the same challenges
faced in 2003. If the member
ship is not ready to take strong
action in the worksite including
being prepared to go out on
strike if necessary, the bargaining
team can not be successful in
bargaining a fair contract with
management. Bargaining and
strong worksite actions must go
hand in hand; we must start
preparing now by building soli
darity in the workplace.
DISTRICT 3S:Assistant District Director (1 position available)
Name
Kimberly Powell
Homecare
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What are your qualifications
for this office?
Union Experience:
I have been a part of our
unions homecare campaign to
give people a voice and to
improve the quality of life for
ourselves and co-workers. I
have been a district delegate. I
have been to General Council
twice.
and am now the
Secretary/Treasurer of our
local. The union has helped me
express myself in ways that
make a difference through
trainings, field work and
communications via phone
and district meetings.
Why are you seeking
this office, your goals?
I want to increase my knowl
edge base and learn about the
varied issues that the union
encounters. My goals for SEIU
are to help provide effective
communication and help weed
through obsticles that cloud
the unions goals and growth.
Goals for your District?
I want to take my knowledge
and use it to help in the under
standing of what the union is,
what the unions goals are and
how we collectively can help
each other better our live and
those of our co-workers.
Biggest single issue/how
to resolve?
Growth - I may not resolve it
but can help in creating good
communication and educate
on the importance of the
impact a big purple dot in the
obsticles that we face
Other info:
I am diplomatic
but not afraid or
intimidated to
rock the boat
when need be
DISTRICT 3N: District Director (7 position available)
Name
What are your qualifications
for this office?
I have been a Union member
for 14 years. I am a Union
Steward as well as our Sub-
Local’s Chairperson. I am also
the Co-Chairperson for our
Sub-Local labor/management
committee. On the Statewide
level, I have served as the
Co-Chairperson for
Labor/Management for the
Department of Human
Services.
Union Experience:
I have served on a Jobs for
Justice/Workers1 Rights Board
which was working with newly
unionized hospital employees
at Good Samaritan hospital in
Corvallis to settle a contract
dispute. In this effort, I facilitat
ed a community forum where
in working conditions and
experiences at the hospital
were discussed. The contract
was recently settled.
Why are you seeking
this office, your goals?
As a social worker, Union
activism is an important value.
I have a strong sense of fairness
and justice. I hope to impart
these values in my work on
behalf of our members. My
goals for SEIU Local 503 are as
follows; To educate and inspire
new members to get involved
with Union service work, To lis
ten to members and carry
information back to my Local
about how their Union is serv
ing their interests.
Goals for your District?
1 hope to assist our Union to
grow politically stronger and
thereby resist Union busting
activities. I feel it is important
to have the voices and interests
of our Union members heard
by our legislature and responded
to positively.
Biggest single issue/how
to resolve?
The failure of Measure 30, job
security, the 2 year pay increase
freeze for DHS employees, the
threat of cuts in health benefits,
and the uncertainty of PERS are
member concerns. However, I
believe our members would
say that the preservation of our
health benefits would be most
important. I hope to inspire,
educate and empower mem
bers to become Union acti-
tivists. To listen to members
and respond accordingly, that
is my resolution.
Other info:
It is my hope to
serve Union
members in what
ever capacity. I
feel my social
work values,
ethics and experi
ence will serve me
best in this
capacity.
DISTRICT 4: District Director (2 positions available)
What are your qualifications
for this office?
Rachel Chartier
Jackson Co
Kurt Allen Kessler
John Sayler
OIT
Union Experience:
Why are you seeking
this office, your goals?
To represent Southern Oregons
members.
To play a larger part in the
decision making process.
Promote all-inclusive participa
tion, by making members
aware of our common direc
tion & issues even though we
are different
Goals for your District?
To encourage more members
to become politically active
Keep my district informed and
involved
Biggest single issue/how
to resolve?
To regain support in the
Union... to hold the line.
Make it clear, we are not giving
up anymore. We are here and
this is where we are staying &
united under one voice, one
force, one message.
Other info:
Unete - Farm
worker Advocacy
Volunteer: Home
for Teen mothers'
MURA - Urban
Renewal (Medford)
Church Nursery
Housing Authority
I enjoy camping,
hiking and fly fish
ing. I am a wife and
mother of 2 boys. I
would be honored
to represent South
Oregon and our
Union. Thank you.
Faith in union values, progres
sive, enthusiastic, experienced
organized, excellent commu
nication skills, good judgment,
responsible I have been an
active member in my commu
nity for approx. 10 years in
that time I have been on many
boards and currently serve as
an officer on 2 boards.
Union steward; Local CAT
member
1 st Vice President 497
CAPE Chair - Dist 4
CAPE member & delegate to
the Southern Oregon Central
Labor Council
Former Union Steward
20 years in service industries
(nursing & social work)
Four years US Navy
MA: Religion, Syracuse
University 1996
BA: Religious Studies and
Philosophy, California State
Oregon's labor movement has accomplished great things recently: defeat of antiunion measure 57, passes of minimum wage measure 25, the home care
workers contract. But, we have experienced great failures too: defeat of budget measures 28 & 30, step and COL freezes in the DHS contract. Our failures
were not for lack of focused effort. Plenty of seed was well thrown, but it landed on too few tilled fields. Our message, well spoken, was not heard. Too few
working families, even among our members, understand or identify with the labor movement, or with the unions that must lead that movement. We need
to educate ourselves and then our broader communities about the role the movement has played in bettering the lives of working families and the impor
tance of workers having organized representation in the economy and in the politics of our country. We need to reach out to our natural allies, not just on
specific issues, but on the basis of our shared values and through our involvement in our shared communities. And we need to organize around the diver
sity in our ranks, creating areas within our organization in which persons of specific ideological, ethnic or religious back grounds are encouraged to devel
op and express their involvement in the terms that are most real to them. I'm not speaking against focused issue based activism. It's planted the seeds of
our greatest successes. I'm saying we also need to broaden and improve our connection to working people. We need to till the field. As District Director, I
will certainly work with you to be heard by those in power, but I will work particularly hard to be heard by those we wish to empower.
Current District 4 Director.
Served 2 years as Assistant
District 4 Director prior to my
election as a Director.
OIT Representative on the
Higher Ed Bargaining Team
/official note taker for the
team
Younger Workers' Task Force
Chair
General Council Delegate
Steward (previously)
I have also worked diligently
to be involved with many of
the Locals in my jurisdiction.
SEIU Representative to the
Southeastern Oregon Labor
Council
Pro-worker Initiative Signature
Gatherer
LERC Summer School
I am extremely dependable
and commit myself to anything
I take on. As current District 4
Director, I have never missed a
Board meeting. It's important
to me that you have represen
tation at every Board meeting.
I would like to see SEIU Local
503, OPEU become a more
powerful and influential in
Oregon. To that end, I would
appreciate the opportunity to
be part of the Board of
Directors so that the Southern
part of the state will have a
voice in decisions that effect all
of us. The greater the participa
tion in the Union, the greater
our strength.
March 2004
My goals for District 4 are to
continue building participation
within the District. As current
District Director, I have been
responsible primarily for com
municating with our members
east of the Cascades. I hope to
get Forestry, ODOT and
Homecare workers more
involved at the District level. I
want District 4's voice to clearly
be heard at the Board.
The biggest single issue that the
Union faces in the next two
years is communicating to all
our members the importance
of our voting strength.
Collectively we have the ability
to elect pro-worker candidates
and this is the most important
thing we can do above all.
Elected officials that share our
goals will give this country back
to the working people.
SEIU Local 503, OPEU - STRONGER TOGETHER
I regularly attend
various agency
meetings and on
request, have
even stepped in to
run them occa
sionally. There
have also been-
times when I've
assisted other
agencies with
grievances in the
absence of an
organizer.
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