Snohomish
County Labor Council
Minutes
of the Meeting of January 25, 2012
The meeting was called to order at 6 PM
by President Darrell Chapman. Secretary Treasurer Mike Sells was in session as
a State Representative in Olympia. Leonard Kelley, IBT 231, was appointed to the Secretary-Treasurer's chair for the meeting. The meeting protocol was read, and the minutes of the previous meeting was approved as posted.
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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IAFF
46: John Gage
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OPEIU
8: Tracy Hoffman, Jennifer Moore, John O?Keefe
No new delegates were present.
GUESTS
The business meeting was
suspended for guests
Candidates for the 1st
Congressional District introduced themselves and spoke briefly about their
campaigns.
Darcy
Burner: Spoke on how Congress is broken
and her plans to make a difference. She spoke to sending people to
Congress who will fight for jobs.
Suzan
DelBene: Spoke on the need for jobs in the state. She has run the Revenue
Department for the state for the last 13 months.
Roger
Goodman: Unable to attend since as a State Representative he was in session in
Olympia. His campaign manager, Mike Nelson, read a brief statement.
Darshan
Rauniyar: Spoke to the need to rebuild our manufacturing base and create jobs.
Laura
Ruderman: Spoke about Social Security and Medicare concerns. She also addressed
the need to stop jobs going overseas.
Guests excused.
Continuation of business meeting
EXECUTIVE BOARD /
STATE LABOR COUNCIL OFFICERS
Lynne Dodson, WSLC Secretary-Treasurer:
Thanked the Snohomish County Labor Council for partnering with the WSLC in
sponsoring the 1st Congressional Candidate Forum on March 23rd.
The forum will be held at the Machinists Union Hall, 8729 Airport Road in
Everett at 7:00PM. She spoke to the need for creating at least 30,000 new jobs
in the state. Representative Hans Dunshee will be sponsoring a bill to create
construction jobs. No bill number yet but the WSLC will contact us to help
support it when it happens.
Secretary-Treasurer
Dodson discussed the bill being sponsored by State Senator Steve Hobbs,
SB-6442, that will direct the
Washington State Health Care Authority to take over the K-12 health benefit
system and eliminate collective bargaining rights for health care.
The WSLC Legislative
Conference is February 9th with a COPE Convention afterwards.
REPORTS OF UNIONS
Organizing—Leonard Kelley,
IBT 231, reported they organized the city of Oak Harbor and had over 70% of the
cards signed.
Bob Rommel, SPEEA,
reported on organizing efforts with a group of Boeing pilots, and a specialty
group inside Boeing.
Contract Negotiations—Rich Ewing, IBT
231, reported that they were in negotiations with the City of Stanwood. The
city is asking for union covered employees to share health care costs but not
the administrators nor the non-covered employees.
Other Local activity—None were
reported
OLD BUSINESS—
Nominations were re-opened
for 2012-13 terms for the following offices: President, Trustees 1,3,4,5. Nominations
made previously were:
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President:
Darrell Chapman, IBEW 191
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Trustee
1: Dan Christofferson, LIUNA 292
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Trustee
3: Ed Triezenberg, UBC 70
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Trustee
4: Randy Kurtz, AFSCME 948
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Trustee
5: Leonard Kelley, IBT 231
As there were no further nominations,
the nominations were closed and Vice-President Jason Redrup, IAM 751 moved to
accept the nominations by acclamation. Motion was carried.
NEW BUSINESS
The newly elected SCLC
Executive Board was sworn in by WSLC Secretary-Treasurer Lynne Dodson.
Kim Mead, AFT 772,
presented the delegates with the MLKCLC Resolution to Oppose the State Takeover
of K-12 Health Care, and asked for their support. She talked about the bill,
SB-6442 sponsored by State Senator Steve Hobbs. This bill will actually cost
the taxpayers millions and local school districts would be liable for all
future costs above any allocation by the state.
President Chapman made
the motion to support the resolution with reference changes to the Snohomish
County Labor Council, not MLKCLC Council. (Resolution with changes follows.)
RESOLUTION TO OPPOSE THE STATE TAKEOVER OF K-12 HEALTH CARE
Adopted January 25, 2012
Whereas,
the Legislature directed the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) to
develop a plan for a state takeover of the K-12 health benefits system; and
Whereas,
the proposed takeover eliminates collective bargaining rights for health care;
and
Whereas,
the takeover shifts an additional $25 million per year to K-12 employees
through higher premiums and ?point of service cost-sharing;? and
Whereas,
the plan provides no cost savings and would actually cost taxpayers millions of
dollars; and
Whereas,
all future costs risks would be shifted to the school districts for costs above
the state allocation; and
Whereas,
the plan abandons a system that today costs less and provides more than the
state program; and
Whereas,
the proposal requires lower overall benefits to avoid immediate cost increases;
and
Whereas,
the plan wipes out health care coverage entirely for thousands of part-time
employees who work less than half-time; and
Whereas,
the proposal adds another costly function to the state bureaucracy at a time
when vital funding for K-12 education and other services is being cut; and
Whereas,
K-12 employees have had the option to enroll in the state employee health care
plan since 1995, and less than one percent of the K-12 employees have made that
choice; therefore be it
Resolved,
that the Snohomish County Labor Council opposes this anti-union legislation
mandating a state takeover of the K-12 health benefits system; and be it
further
Resolved,
that the Snohomish County Labor Council supports the coalition opposed to this
collective bargaining and health care takeaway; and be it further
Resolved,
that this action and resolution be communicated to the legislative leadership,
all legislators representing Snohomish County citizens, and the Governor; and
be it finally
Resolved,
that Snohomish County Labor Council will forward this resolution to the
Washington State Labor Council with a request that they adopt a similar
resolution.
Motion passed.
Delegates for the WSLC Legislative Conference were chosen. Leonard Kelley, IBT 231; Darrel McLaughlin, IBEW 191, and Jim Gillan, SPEEA, will attend.
GOOD OF THE ORDER
Greg Flatmo, IUPAT,
discussed using trade crafts for work.
The meeting was
adjourned at 6:56 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Leonard Kelley, Trustee
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Mike Sells,
Secretary-Treasurer
ATTENDANCE
AFSCME
109:
AFSCME
109E:
AFSCME
109S: No Delegate
AFSCME
113: Jim Imhof, Cameron Johnson, Charles Johnstone
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: Randy Kurtz
AFSCME
1020: Eric Wiseman
AFSCME
2753: No Delegate
AFSCME
2964: No Delegate
AFT
772: Kim Mead
AFT
1873:
APWU
484: No Delegate
ATU
883: No Delegate
ATU
1576:
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: Jackie Boschok
IATSE
15: John Lammon
IBEW
46:
IBEW
77:
IBEW
89:
IBEW
191: Darrell Chapman, Darrel McLaughlin
IBT
38: Janine Dibble
IBT
174: No Delegate
IBT
231: Rich Ewing, Leonard Kelley
IBT
763: No Delegate
IBU/
ILWU:
IFPTE
17:
IUOE
302: No Delegate
IUPAT
DC 5: Greg Flatmo
IW
86: No Delegate
LIUNA
292: Dan Christofferson, Doug Scott
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
UFCW
141, USNU: No Delegate
UniteHere:
No Delegate
Wash
Tech / CWA: Rennie Sawade
Excused
Absences
AFSCME
1811CA: Terry VanWyck
AFT
772: Mike Sells
ATU
1576: Patty Ceis
SPEEA:
Sandy Hastings
UBC
70: Ed Triezenberg
Guests
Suzan
DelBene, Candidate 1st Congressional
Lynne
Dodson, WSLC Secretary-Treasurer
Darcy
Burner, Candidate 1st Congressional
Steph
Erwin, DelBene Campaign
Brad
Forbes, Ruderman Campaign
Ken
Frey, IBEW 191
R
M Harrell, IAM 130
Alex
Henderson
Nigel
Herbig, Ranniyar Campaign
Mike
Nelson, Goodman for Congress
Tom
Nikirk, IUPAT
Bob
Parker, WSFSE
Darshar
Ranniyar, Candidate 1st Congressional
Laura
Ruderman, Candidate 1st Congressional