Snohomish County Labor Council
Minutes of the Meeting of February 27,
2008
The meeting was called to order a 6:00
PM by President Chapman, followed by the flag salute and the reading of the
meeting purpose. It was M (Kurtz, WFSE948) S (Glenn, SPEEA) and C to approve
the minutes of the previous meeting. Leonard Kelley, Teamsters 231 was
appointed to fill the Secretary-Treasurer Chair as Secretary –Treasurer
Mike Sells was serving in the Washington Legislature, and Toni Bohan, SEIU 925
was appointed to fill the Vice-Presidents Chair as the Vice-President Jackie
Boschok, IAM 751F was on an organizing drive.
CREDENTIALS
The new delegates were not
present, and no seating action was taken.
EXECUTIVE
BOARD/COPE SCREENING COMMITTEE REPORT
Administrative Assistant Allyn
Triezenberg gave a brief recap of recent Executive Board meetings and the
discussion concerning upcoming COPE Interviews.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
There
was no unfinished business.
REPORTS
OF UNIONS
Organizing
Reports—Matt
Carroll, IBEW 191, reported on the ongoing organizing effort with Comcast. They
have a long history of anti-union tactics. They are the largest cable provider
in the nation with 90,000 workers. To illustrate how they operate - Local 21 in
Chicago worked for 2 years to get an agreement and now the union workers make
less than the non-union. This will be a nationwide ongoing effort and Matt will
keep the labor council updated.
Leonard
Kelley, Teamsters 231, reported on the ongoing campaign with FedEx. There are
tax violations that are being investigated by the IRS for a variety of
problems, one reason being that
they call their employees ³independent contractors². He asked the body
to carry the message back to their locals not to use FedEx but union DHL or
UPS.
Leonard
Kelley also reported on the Organizing/Education Committee. The committee is
looking at 2 possible sites to set up the Labor Education Project – one
Merrell Creek and the other the Arlington Airport business park. He recapped
last yearıs effort in Monroe and said that the committee will be setting up a
revisit sometime mid year. Then next year the same would be done with whatever
site was picked for this yearıs effort.
Contract
Negotiations—
. ATU 1576, Chris Brydges reported that the contract was now in mediation. She
also introduced their new Vice-President Rick Jurkovic who was in attendance.
Robin
Ramsey, IBU, reported that their contract negotiations were beginning with the
Washington State Ferry system. The first meeting ended after an hour and a half
with IBU walking out. If nothing
can be settled, the next step would be binding arbitration. He will keep the
body updated.
Bob
Rommel, SPEEA, they are in the early stages on their contract negotiations with
the Boeing Company in Washington which covers 20,000 people. The contract in
Wichita was reopened – it covers 4,000 people.
Curt
Eidem, CWA/WASHTECH, reported on AT&T wireless negotiations on the national
front.
Randy
Kurtz, AFSCME 948, letters have gone out opening bargaining with the state.
They are hoping to have the contract ratified before the next legislative
session.
NEW
BUSINESS
GOOD
OF THE ORDER
Suzanne
Moreau, PSLA, updated the body on the Letter Carriers Food Drive to be held May
10th of this year. Volunteers are needed to help unload the trucks. She
thanked the unions who had donated dollars and would have their logos on the
bags. Darrell Chapman, IBEW 191, asked if IBEW 191 had been contacted about
contributing. Suzanne said she would look into it. Bob Rommel, SPEEA, said that
he had worked out the donation and for the number of bags printed and given out
it worked out to be 3/10ths of 1 cent. Suzanne also asked the delegates to
donate money in a pass the hatı to the 1st Amendment Scholarship
being co-sponsored by the PSLA.
Chris
Sorenson, PASS, reported on the Washington Aviation Association event held at
Paine Field. It was very successful event and PASS used it to introduce the
aviation community to their union.
Sally
Hintz, Field Representative for Senator Maria Cantwell, presented an American
Flag that had flown above the capital to IBEW 191. The flag had been a raffle
gift won by SPEEA at the Holiday Open House PSLA raffle. Darrell Chapman, IBEW
191 received it on behalf of his local.
Scott
Olson, Candidate for 39th District House, addressed the body about
his candidacy.
Bob
Rommel, SPEEA, introduced Sally Hastings, SPEEA Vice President who is intending
to become a delegate.
Jim
Smith, Laborers 292, reminded the body to listen to Radio Labor Journal and
contact him through the SCLC office if they have broadcast ideas.
Chris
Glenn, SPEEA, reported that the Community Services committee would be ³selling
parking² at the two lots of the Labor Temple and asked for volunteers. As of
now they donıt know dates and times but will contact volunteers with that
information when they get it.-
Ed
Triezenberg, UBC 562, reported that the Carpenters had been successful working
with L&I to get back wages in the amount of $400,000 for carpenters working
for Artistic Drywall. These carpenters had been underpaid on prevailing wage
jobs.
Darrell
Chapman, IBEW 191, announced that for those who did not know it already, Diane
McDaniel, longtime WSLC Political Director, was leaving the WSLC.
M
(Kurtz, WFSE948) S (Glenn, SPEEA) to adjourn the meeting at 6:55 PM
Respectfully
submitted,
Leonard
Kelley, Trustee
ATTENDANCE:
AFSCME
109:
AFSCME
109E:
AFSCME
109S: No Delegate
AFSCME
113:
AFSCME
1811: No Delegate
AFSCME
1811C:
AFSCME
1811CA: Gloria Parker
AFSCME
1811JPD:
AFSCME
1811JS: No Delegate
AFSCME
1811PA: Tim Geraghty
AFSCME
1811S: No Delegate
AFSCME
881: No Delegate
AFSCME
948: Randy Kurtz
AFSCME
1020:
AFSCME
1355: No Delegate
AFSCME
2753: No Delegate
AFSCME
2964: No Delegate
AFT
772:
AFT
1873:
AFT
4254:
APWU
484: No Delegate
ATU
883:
ATU
1576: Christine Brydges
AWPPW
644: No Delegate
GCIU
767M:
IAFF
46:
IAFF
1984: No Delegate
IAFF
2694: No Delegate
IAM
130: David Volkman
IAM
751A:
IAM
751C:
IAM
751E: Ron Bradley
IAM
751F: Grace Holland
IATSE
15: John Lammon
IBEW
46:
IBEW
77:
IBEW
89: Matt Carroll
IBEW
191: Darrell Chapman
IBT
38:
IBT
174:
IBT
231: Leonard Kelley
IBT
763:
IBU/
ILWU: Robin Ramsey
IFPTE
17:
ILWU
32:
IUOE
302: No Delegate
IUPAT
DC 5: No Delegate
IW
86:
LIUNA
292: Jim Smith, Rodolfo Zavala
NALC
791: Bob James
OPEIU
8:
OPEIU
277: No Delegate
Pac
NW Newspaper Guild:
PASS:
Christian Sorensen
Plumbers
and Pipefitters 26:
SEIU
6:
SEIU
925: Toni Bohan
SEIU
1199NW:
SMIU
66:
SPEEA:
Chris Glenn, Bob Rommel
UBC
562: Ed Triezenberg
UFCW
44: No Delegate
UFCW
141, USNU: No Delegate
UFCW
21:
UniteHere:
No Delegate
Wash
Tech / CWA: Curt Eidem, Rennie Sawade
Excused
Absences
AFSCME
1811CA: Patty Goins
AFT
772: Kim Mead, Mike Sells
IAM
751A: Don Shove
IAM
751F: Jackie Boshok
IBEW
77: Peg Chrisman
IBT
38: Tami
Brady, Mike Campbell, Steve Chandler, Janine Dibble, Samantha Kantak, Barry
Lund, Rick Olson
IBU/
ILWU:David McKenzie
LIUNA
292: Doug Scott
SEIU
925: Donna Chrisman
Guests
Sally
Hintz, Senator Cantwell
Sally
Hastings, SPEEA
Rick
Jurkovic, ATU 1576
Suzanne
Moreau, PSLA
Scott
Olson, Candidate 39th District House