Snohomish
County Labor Council
Minutes
of the Meeting of October 26, 2011
The meeting was called
to order at 6:00 PM by Vice President Redrup followed by the flag salute and
the reading of the meeting purpose. Trustee Ed Triezenberg was appointed to the
Vice PresidentŐs Chair. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as posted
on the web site.
CREDENTIALS
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AFSCME
109E Sheryl Barker, Sean Hare, Curtis Jasper, Beverly Riley, Judy Wahl
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AFSCME
113: Dan Packard
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IBEW
191: Steven Candy, Damien Fisher, Patrick Gallatin, Devyn Johanson
None of the new delegates were
present to be sworn in
GUESTS
John Bonner,
Executive Director, Corporate & Continuing Education Center of Everett
Community College
went over the training programs available. They work with industry to develop
programs for needed job training. They have also worked with the Machinists
apprenticeship program for aerospace training. He left contact information for
the delegates.
Michael Lapointe,
Move-On.org,
discussed efforts to get Occupy Everett going. Last night they had over 90
people interested in getting it started. They have the permits submitted to the
Snohomish County Courthouse. This is an on-going project.
Jim Smith, KSER Radio
Labor Journal,
updated the delegates on what the program would be featuring. The last program
was on the Everett Massacre. Check out the KSER FM 90.7 program guides on line for the time and day. They are
usually on the 3rd Monday of the month.
EXECUTIVE BOARD
REPORT
Sec. Treas. Sells
updated delegates on partnering with United Way to help with the Letter Carriers
Food Drive in May. He reported that the Social Security Forum at Everett CC drew
over 300 people and thanked Steven Horn, AFT 1873, for his organizing on it.
The AWPPW is looking at a new possible agreement with a possible new buyer of
Kimberly Clark and will be talking with members the next few days on what an
agreement might include. The Anchor Pub in Everett is hosting a Labor Night on
November 2nd.
REPORTS OF UNIONS
Organizing—Sec. Treas. Sells
reported that President Chapman was in the Tri-Cities doing door to door
organizing work with electrical workers.
Contract Negotiations—no updates
Other Local
Activities—Bob
James, NALC 791 asked for signatures on a petition to save Saturday postal deliveries.
Closing on Saturday would impact 20,000 jobs nationwide and affect mail
delivery during the week. The deficit was caused primarily by the postal
service needing to over pay retirement by substantial amounts and pre-pay
health benefits for 75 years in the future. It has caused a postal service
deficit.
GOOD OF THE
ORDER/ANNOUNCEMENTS
Steve Horn, AFT 1873,
reported that there would be 12:30PM Occupy Everett meeting at Everett CC this
next Tuesday. Eric Wiseman, WFSE 1020, encouraged extra caution around safety
issues as we enter the winter months, as did Chris Glenn, Laborers 292, who
does flagging work. Jim Gillan, SPEEA, commented, "I have been to Westlake
Park for rallies and have listened to the speakers and talked for hours with
bystanders. In other cities and states it may make sense to blame everyone in
government for what they don't like about America today but in Washington State
most all of the people that have a 'D' in front of their name are concerned for
labor and working people. The are on the ragged edge of what they can get away
with to help us and still get elected, and that is very hard these days - we
need to be patient. The 'occupy people' have forgotten that the guy in the
White House used to be a street level organizer back in Chicago, not a lobbyist.Ó
The meeting was
adjourned at 6:35 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Mike Sells,
Secretary-Treasurer
ATTENDANCE
AFSCME
109:
AFSCME
109E:
AFSCME
109S: No Delegate
AFSCME
113:
AFSCME
1811:
AFSCME
1811C:
AFSCME
1811CA:
AFSCME
1811JPD: No Delegate
AFSCME
1811JS: No Delegate
AFSCME
1811PA:
AFSCME
1811S: No Delegate
AFSCME
435: No Delegate
AFSCME
881: No Delegate
AFSCME
948:
AFSCME
1020: Eric Wiseman
AFSCME
2753: No Delegate
AFSCME
2964: No Delegate
AFT
772: Kim Mead, Mike Sells
AFT
1873: Steven Horn
APWU
484: No Delegate
ATU
883: No Delegate
ATU
1576: Rick Jurkovic
AWPPW
183:
AWPPW
644:
GCIU
767M: No Delegate
IAFF
46:
IAFF
1984: No Delegate
IAFF
2694: No Delegate
IAM
130:
IAM
751A: Mark Clark, Jason Redrup, Brent Sanchez
IAM
751C:
IAM
751E:
IAM
751F:
IATSE 15: Tom McConnell
IBEW
46:
IBEW
77:
IBEW
89:
IBEW
191:
IBT
38:
IBT
174: No Delegate
IBT
231:
IBT
763: No Delegate
IBU/
ILWU: David McKenzie
IFPTE
17:
IUOE
302: No Delegate
IUPAT
DC 5: Greg Flatmo
IW
86: No Delegate
LIUNA
292: Dan Christofferson, Chris Glenn
NALC
791: Bob James
OPEIU
8:
OPEIU
277: No Delegate
Pac
NW Newspaper Guild: No Delegate
Plumbers
and Pipefitters 26: No Delegate
SEIU
6: No Delegate
SEIU
925:
SEIU
1199NW: No Delegate
SMIU
66: No Delegate
SPEEA:
James Gillan, Bob Rommel, David Simpson
UBC
70: Guy Johnson, Ed Triezenberg
UFCW
141, USNU: No Delegate
UniteHere:
No Delegate
Wash
Tech / CWA: Rennie Sawade
Excused
Absences
AFSCME
1811CA: Patty Goins, Gloria Parker, Terry VanWyck
AFSCME
948: Randy Kurtz
IAFF
46: Don Schwab
IAM
751F: Grace Holland
IBEW
191: Darrell Chapman
IBT
38: Janine Dibble, Rick Olson
IBT
231: Leonard Kelley
LIUNA
292: Doug Scott
Guests
John
Bonner, Executive Director, Corporate & Continuing Education Center of
Everett Community College
Michael
Lapointe, Move-On.org,
Jim
Smith, KSER Radio Labor Journal