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Employees called winners in UPS settlement
A panel o f Team ster local leaders
approved Tuesday a tentative con
tract with United Parcel Service,
ending a tw o -w eek strik e that
crippled package deliveries in the
United States, a Teamsters official
said.
The panel, which consists of two
reprsentatives from each of the 206
Teamster locals, voted unanimously
to accept the tentative contract that
now goes to a secret ballot by Team
ster members.
The vote freed the 185,(MX) strik
ing Teamsters to return to work at
UPS, but a formal ratification of the
contract depends on a secret mail
ballot of union members That mail
vote would likely take three to four
weeks to complete
Teamsters said they would dis
cuss the results of the local leaders’
vote shortly. Workers could be back
at work as early as Wednesday.
UPS Chairman James Kelly said
the com pany’s lleet of brown vans
Oregon political leaders say workers
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w ould be running fu ll-o u t by
W ednesday, while officials at the
w orld's largest package delivery
company would contact customers
to try to win back business lost dur
ing the strike.
At picket lines near UPS head
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quarters in Atlanta, thousands of
Teamster union members cheered
the tentative pact announced late on
Monday to settle strike, which was
widely seen as a victory for orga
nized labor
P resident C linton called the
settlement "a g ixxl thing for the country
Il's g ix x l tor the company. gixxl for the
employees, he said, speaking to re
porters while on vacation on Manila's
Vineyard, olt the Massachusetts coast
"It's a viclory for the proposition
that you can treat your employees
well and make money. T hat's what I
wanted to prove from the time I
became president,” he said.
Teamsters President Ron Carey
said the I85.(XM) striking workers,
who received $55 a week in union
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strike benefits, could go back to
work W ednesday.
The breakthrough cam e M on
thly night alter almost 90 hours o f
negotiations at a W ashington ho
tel
A federal m ediator guided the
talks and Labor Secretary A lexis
Herman was at the hotel and pushed
the tw o sides to keep talking.
Carey said the union had won
sw eeping concessions from UPS.
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Fed leaves rates alone
The Federal Reserve Tuesday left key
interest rates unchanged amid clear evi
dence the nation's economy is growing at
a comfortable speed with low inflation.
The announcement by the central bank’s
Federal Open Market Committee was
widely expected and left the key federal
funds rate which banks charge each other
for overnight loans steady at 5.5 percent.
With recent data suggesting that growth is
moderate and inflation steady in the
world's dom inant economy, investors had
little reason to expect any change in the
Fed's policy stance now. But some ana
lysts believe the Fed may move to tighten
credit later in the year.
Mir restarts computer
The crew o f the troubled space station
Mir managed to restart the station's com
puter system Tuesday, arresting a 24-
hour tumble through space triggered by a
technical failure during the docking o f a
cargo ship. A Mission Control spokes
woman said the crew will now be able to
restore Mir's stable alignment with the
sun. U.S. officials, meanwhile, are mull
ing whether to keep sending astronauts to
Mir. David W olf is scheduled to blast off
on Sept. 25 aboard the space shuttle
Atlantis, but whether he will actually
embark on the station is still being de
bated. Three separate U.S. inquiries into
safety aboard Mir are proceeding, said a
NASA spokesman.
Shuttle lands in Florida
The space shuttle Discovery touched
down in Florida with a satellite carrying a
bounty o f data about the health o f Earth's
protective ozone layer. The German-built
spacecraft flew free o f the shuttle for nine
days and took nearly 50,000 atmospheric
measurements to aid scientists studying
the depletion o f the ozone layer. The
satellite also provided evidence to sup
port a controversial theory that the Earth
is being bombarded daily by thousands of
house-sized, water-laden comets.
Texas Inmates moved
Missouri officials are considering le
gal action against the operators o f a Texas
jail where guards videotaped prisoners
being brutalized. A spokesman for Gov.
Mel Carliahan said the state was review
ing all o f its contracts with Texas jails
where hundreds o f prisoners have been
housed in a bid to ease overcrowding in
the Missouri prison system.
ValuJet hearings start
The National Transportation Safety
Board is meeting today to consider its
final report on the crash lastyearofV aluJet
flight 592 that killed 110 people. The DC-
9 plunged into the Florida Everglades on
May 11, 1996.
Tobacco chief testifies
The tobacco industry's chief spokes
man dismissed as overblown and un
founded medical and anti-smoking claims
that cigarettes are addictive, jurors in a
landmark secondhand-smoke trial heard
this week. Samuel Chilcote, president o f |
the Tobacco Institute, an industry trade
group, also said the links between smok
ing and diseases such as lung cancer were
not yet proven and that secondhand smoke
was not a health danger
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Ministries at Northeast Martin Luther King & Skidmore. Several groups in north and northeast Portland, including the AMA Child Care Enhancement Project
sponsored the fair as they work together to meet the needs of child care providers, children and families.
(Photo by M Washington)
Future for vacant market still up air
United Grocery says it’s still committed to Wilshire site, neighborhood not so sure
B y L ee P erlman
espite closing their second gro
eery in the area. United Grocers
is committed to replacing the
Wilshire Park Thriftway, officials told the
Concordia Neighborhood Association last
week.
Last m onth Bill S eidl, the grocery
cooperative’s director o f real estate and
store developm ent, told the community
group that his organization was committed
to re-opening the Wilshire Park store on
Northeast 33rd Avenue at Killingsworth
Street, now vacant for two years.
He said that an experienced operator was
considering taking over the store, and that if
an agreement could be signed it could open
for business "within 180 days." The day after
The former Wilshire Park Thriftway remains a blight in its northeast Portland
the meeting the T J. Sentry Market at 4636
neighborhood,
frustrating area residents.
N.E. 42nd Ave., also affiliated with United
Grocers, announced that it was closing its
impending closure at the time of the meet
he said.
doors within a week.
ing.
As to the pending deal at Wilshire Park,
Some residents took the two events as a
"We kept the 42nd street store open longer
Seidl said that it had fallen through. How
betrayal. "Right now United G rocer's repu
than we should have out of consideration for
ever, he said, United Grocers remained com
tation in the neighborhood is not good, and
the neighborhood," he said. Sentry store had
mitted to reopening the store. As proof of
we need to do something about that,” former
been losing as much as $60,000 per week,
this, it is offering potential operators $1
Concordia president Ron Fossum told Seidl.
he said.
million toward its renovation. Last month
Seidl insisted that the two events were a
"Because of potential liability, we don’t
the Figure was $500,(MX).
coincidence, and that he did not know of the
generally publicize these things in advance."
A major obstacle, Seidl said, is the small
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size of the store and the limitations that
places on its operations.
"We expect to do less than $125,000 a
week worth o f business there,” he said.
“Larger groceries do $500 to $600,000 a
week.” The existing building is less than
20,000 square feel.
Another problem may be fear of the area
by potential operators.
It was stated that one developer withdrew
after a recent drive-by shooting on N orth
east Alberta Street.
N eighborhood board member M aggie
White look stern exception to the remarks.
"This happens everywhere. Beaumont M ar
ket was robbed recently," White said.
Seidl said the neighborhood could help
him " s e ll" the market and area to potential
operators. “I told one person, ‘Look w hat’s
happeningiin Martin Luther King. W hoever
thought that would be happening."’
The neighborhixxl association can also “help
manage the emotion," Seidl told the board. “I
know you guys are upset and you have every right
to be, but cveiy hour spent on P R and spin takes
away from finding a solution."
Board member Phil Carrier told Seidl,
You get it open, and I w on't buy anything
anywhere else for a year."
Apology for slavery
debated
Community dialogue: Apology and
reparations for slavery
ow do you feel about Presi
dent Clinton and Congress
officially apologizing to black
Americans for slavery?
What do you think about reparations -
compensation for their ancestors' suf
fering - to black Americans?
The M etro p o litan H um an R ights
C e n te r w ill fa c ilita te a C om m unity
d ialo g u e on A pology to B lack A m e ri
cans for S lav ery , T u esd ay , Sept. 9
from 6 :3 0 p.m . to 9 p.m . at the
M ittlem an Jew ish C om m unity C e n
ter, 6651 S.W . C ap ito l H ighw ay.
All races of people are encouraged to
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participate in open and honest dialogue
on this subject.
Everyone will have an opportunity to
express opinion and offer ideas for posi
tive change.
M e tr o p o lita n H u m a n R ig h ts
C e n te r's C om m unity D ialo g u es on
race prom ote mutual u n d erstan d in g
and respect.
To register for the Sept. 9 dialogue or
for more inform ation, contact 1 nda
Hunter at 823-5136 II you are a person
with a disability who needs accommoda
tion. you're asked to call 48 hours in
advance.
Companions lost, future pondered
John Lee survives a boating accident last week and is left to mourn the loss of his two
fishing companions and friends. James E. Riley, 28 and Joe A. Banks. 44. who drowned in
the mishap. Their bodies have now been recovered from the Willamette River A memorial
service lor the men was scheduled for Wednesday at Maranatha Church