An Injury to One is an Injury to All!VOL. 121

NO. 19APRIL 15, 2015WEDNESDAY

(ISSN 0023-6667)

See Free trade...page 15

USW’s Bob Ryan and Jon Malek, and UFCW’s Tamara Jones were among those whospoke at a free trade/TPP forum hosted by Congressman Rick Nolan April 7.

Workers Memorial Day to be observed

Nolan forum hears it on FTAs and TPP

to make that promise a reali-ty—winning protections tomake jobs safer, saved hun-dreds of thousands of lives andprevented millions of work-place injuries and illnesses.

The work is not done. Manyjob hazards are unregulatedand uncontrolled. Some em-ployers cut corners and violatelaws, putting workers in seri-ous danger and costing lives.Workers who report job haz-ards or job injuries are fired ordisciplined. Employers con-tract out dangerous work to tryto avoid responsibility. As aresult, each year thousands ofworkers are killed and millionsmore injured or diseased.

President Obama’s adminis-tration has strengthened safetyand health protections throughtougher enforcement andexpanded workers’ rights.New safeguards on silica andother workplace hazards havebeen proposed and are close tobeing finalized. But thisprogress is threatened by busi-ness groups and the Repub-licans who control Congress.They are trying to stop theseprotections and shut down allfuture regulations. Labor can’tlet them succeed–workers’lives are at stake.

The Duluth AFL-CIO Cen-tral Labor Body will hold theirWorkers Memorial Day obser-vance Monday, April 27. Itbegins at 7:00 a.m. with a full,free Solidarity Breakfast in theLabor Temple until 9:00 a.m.thanks to members of the Com-munity Services Program andUnited Way of Greater Duluth.At 9:15 am a tree planting willbe held outside the LaborTemple to remember workerswho died on the job in the pastyear.

AFSCME 1092’s Chris St.Germaine has called for aworkers’ safety rally at LakeAve/Superior St for a half hourat 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 28to let the public know thatmany workers are hurt at work.

The Superior Federation ofLabor will observe Workers’Memorial Day with a breakfastand tree planting Wednesday,April 29. The breakfast will beat Central Assembly of GodChurch at 3000 Hammondstarting at 7:30 a.m. and a treewill be planted at Heritage Park28th/Hammond right after.

Four decades ago, Congresspassed the Occupational Safetyand Health Act, promisingevery worker the right to a safejob. Unions have fought hard

Every April 28, unions ob-serve Workers Memorial Dayto remember those who havesuffered and died on the joband to renew efforts for saferworkplaces. The struggle con-tinues to create good jobs thatare safe, healthy, pay fairwages, and to ensure the free-dom of workers to form unionsand to speak out and bargain.It’s time for America to fulfillthe promise of safe jobs.

The boom and bust cycle onMinnesota’s Iron Range is afamiliar story to everyone wholives there. Recent news of lay-offs coming to over 1,100members of the UnitedSteelworkers union at U.S.Steel’s MinnTac, KeeTac andMagnetation operations willaffect many more folks thanthat on Main Streets across theRange.

This time it’s a little differ-ent though. It’s not the econo-my causing layoffs. Thedemand for steel and ore isstrong. It’s America’s trade pol-icy that’s sending U.S. workershome. And it’s about to getworse because of PresidentObama’s desire for fast tracktrade authority and the pro-posed Trans-Pacific Partner-ship (TPP).

TPP is a proposed regionalfree trade agreement (FTA).being negotiated among the

U.S., Australia, Brunei, Cana-da, Chile, Japan, Malaysia,Mexico, New Zealand, Peru,Singapore, and Vietnam.Together, these nations accountfor about 40% of global trade.

Minnesota’s 8th Congres-sional District Rep. Rick Nolanand others have been fightingto defeat fast track and TPP. Ata hearing in Duluth April 8 hesaid he and other opponentshave been meeting weekly inWashington to work to defeatFTA and TPP. He said therewill be some winners if thedeals pass and U.S. corpora-tions that are hiding $2 trillionin profits overseas so theydon’t have to pay U.S. taxes onthem are among the winners.

“I want to hear firsthandfrom some of the people whowould be the most affected byfast track approval of theTrans-Pacific Partnershipagreement. Once we approve atrade agreement, we’re stuckwith the broken enforcementprocess that goes along withit,” Nolan said. “Until we fixthe enforcement process onceand for all, we should call for ahalt to consideration of tradeagreements. We’ve seen theresults before – NAFTA hasalready cost us a million goodjobs and contributed to the clo-sure some 57,000 manufactur-ing facilities.”

Nolan said there are 140cases of illegal dumping of for-

eign steel in America andthere’s been a 35% increase insteel imports, which now con-trol 28% of the U.S. market.

Jon Malek, President ofUSW Local 1938 at MinnTac,knew that. He came to Duluthto tell Nolan the American steelindustry is at a critical crisispoint with 7,000 of his USWbrothers and sisters laid off orex-employees of permanentlyclosed plants because of freetrade and dumped foreign steelthat is subsidized by othercountries.

Nolan said American steel-workers are the most produc-tive in the world at mining andmaking steel, but our workerscan’t compete with China’sstate owned plants that selltheir products here at 25%below their costs.

“The tubular steel goodscase was won (against subsi-dized imports), but that didn’tstop Korean tubular steelimports from coming here,”Nolan said.

“These are individual pre-meditated acts of economic ter-rorism,” Malek told Nolan.“They even hack our compa-nies’ computer systems to stealtrade secrets. We owe $3 tril-lion to the largest Communistcountry because of free trade.Someone has to stand up andsay enough to corporategreed...We don’t have an

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS ISSUE?25th Trades Golf Outing, Superior elections...page 2

USW 11-63 thanks, spaghetti benefit...page 3Sundin: Unions are the answer, not the problem...page 4

US Postal Service changes hitting home here...page 5Nolan: Expect delays in mail service...page 6

OSHA reports cost of work injuries, less comp...page 723rd NALC Food Drive May 9...page 9

Fatal work injuries decline in most sectors...page 10OSHA has some new reporting requirements...page 11Dunkin’ Donuts pickets to bring union jobs...page 12Upper Big Branch CEO charges rewritten...page 13

Union mines are safer, more productive...page 14Colombia Plan shows failed trade policy...page 16

Chicago voters pushing for paid sick leave...page 17Judge finds need for MN Sandpiper Pipeline...page 18

Fewer derailments if carriers spend to fix track...page 19Corporations working to gut workers’ comp...page 20

Building Trades’ Golf Outing fundraiser marks 25th Anniversary this year The Duluth Building &

Construction Trades Councilwill host their 25th AnnualGolf Outing Saturday, June 13at Lester Park Golf Course.

“This milestone and the tre-mendous success of ourfundraiser has been reached

Superior labor loses mayor’srace, does well otherwise

Superior Federation of Labor endorsed candidates did okay inthe April 7 election but they lost the big one when Mayor BruceHagen defeated their mayoral candidate Jim Paine. Hagenreceived 63% (2,530 votes) to Paine’s 36% (1,454 votes). Thiswill be Hagen’s 5th term, and his last, he’s stated. He was firstelected in 1975, served to 1987, left for state government andprivate work, and then was elected four years ago. Paine says hewill run again for his current post on the Douglas County Board.

In city council races SFL-endorsed candidates GrahamGarfield (District 6), Mike Herrick (District 8), and EstherDalbec (District 10) were all elected.

All SFL-endorsed school board candidates won April 7. Theyare Len Albrecht, Rob Morehouse, Craig Peterson, and MikeRaunio. All school board seats in Superior are at-large.

Wisconsin AFL-CIO-endorsed Supreme Court incumbentAnn Walsh Bradley was easily re-elected to her third term with58% of the vote. Statewide voters also voted in a 53% majorityto allow state Supreme Court justices to elect their chief justiceto two year terms.

The SFL also suggested that voters vote for Mark A. Seidl forthe District 3 Wisconsin Court of Appeals and he won.

There was a 27% voter turnout.

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The 17 unions that make upthe Building Trades Councildonate the proceeds from theannual event to the CommunityServices Program’s MemberAssistance Fund. The programis a joint venture of the UnitedWay of Greater Duluth and theDuluth Central Labor Body.

“Because of the support wereceived we raised over$12,000 in 2014 alone,” saidOlson, DBCTC Secretary.“The proceeds went to help

those in need through ourCommunity Services Program.Many of those who get help areour members whose familiesare struggling.”

Cost of the tournament is$125 per individual, $500 perteam. Individuals will begrouped in 4-person scrambleteams. Golf carts, greens fees,prizes and the bar-b-que thatfollows 18 holes of golf areincluded in the entry fee. You’llget a great, Union-Made inAmerica, golf shirt from EdKranz and Paul Schweiger ofSiebenCarey, and almosteveryone wins a prize.

Rain or shine the event willhave a shotgun start at 9:00a.m. Saturday, June 13. Getthere early enough to be at yourstarting hole on time.

If you are unable to attend adonation to the cause would begreatly appreciated. Donatingdoor prizes for the players isanother way to be involved.

Rep. Anzelcoversightcorrection

In the last Labor World a“Path to Power” training storythere was a terrible oversight innot listing state RepresentativeTom Anzelc’s union creden-tials. Rep. Anzelc (DFL/District 5B/Balsam Township)has been a member of theUnited Steelworkers, HibbingFederation of Teachers Local669, and Laborers Local 1097,making him all but unmatchedin the breadth of his labor cre-dentials and values. He hasworked hard as a trade unionistand worked hard for the labormovement as a rank and filerand as a union staff member.

Hole sponsorships withyour name are $150.

Make checks payable toDuluth Building and Construc-tion Trades, Golf Day Event,and mail them to Golf DayEvent, Duluth Building &

Construction Trades Council,2002 London Road, Room106, Duluth, MN 55812.

For more information con-tact Dana Marciniak,Tournament Co-Chair at 218-724-6466.

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JOB POSTING–AFSCME COUNCIL 5 (MN)FIELD DIRECTOR

The Field Director will function as a member of the management team to oversee the operation of AFSCMEMN Council 5 and implement the programs and directiondetermined by the Council 5 Executive Board. This employee will be involved in all facets of the organizationand will assist in budget preparations, program development, training and program implementation. The employee will attend Council 5 Executive Board meetings and provide reports to the Board as appropriate.The Field Director will report to the Chief of Staff. The Field Director will have direct supervisory responsi-bilities for approximately 6-7 field staff. The Field Directorwill provide direction and assistance to those staff includ-ing, but not limited to, integration of mobilization and political action models into the day-to-day field operation.The Field Director will have primary responsibility for theoversight and administration of AFSCME MN Council 5Operations in The Twin Cities based out of the South SaintPaul Office. This would include supervision of both stateand local government programs.Contract administration will also include overall responsi-bility to help ensure consistent interpretation and enforce-ment of provisions of the AFSCME contracts. This willrequire involvement in arbitration recommendations anddecisions. This position will provide on-going supervisionand/or consultation to Council 5 field staff working withlocal unions, and will make recommendations and/or assignments to various local and council-wide activities.QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate must have ahigh school degree (A Bachelor Degree is preferred) and aminimum of Five (5) years’ experience in labor relationsand union advocacy. Experience with member mobiliza-tion efforts and contract negotiations preferred. This position is located in the South Saint Paul Office.Email resumes and references to: Michelle.Stein@afscmemn.org Fax resumes and references to: 651-455-1311. (No phone calls please).

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In February we changed ourApril publication schedulebecause we were afraid thisissue might not get delivereduntil after Workers MemorialDay if it was printed April22nd. We weren’t sure what theU.S. Postal Service was doingabout closing Duluth’s AreaMail Processing Centerbecause we knew they didn’tknow what they were doing.They’re still not sure but formailing the Labor World wecan only say “so far, so good.”

We found out from USPSmanagement April 9, after theysaid they found out April 8, thatthe great Bulk Mail Entry Unitwe use will stay open here. AllLabor Worlds that go to the556, 557, 558 zip codes, andSuperior’s 54880, will still getprocessed in Duluth, YAHOO!For now. So everyone in thosezip codes should still receivethe paper on a timely basis.That’s a majority of our sub-scribers in this region.

For everyone else we don’thave a clue, yet. Be nice to hear

from some folks in far awayplaces, and even the TwinCities, what day they get thepaper compared to the publica-tion date. You can email me atlaborworld@qwestoffice.netand let us know. This delay hasbeen gnawing at me for about adecade and it looks like theshoe has dropped here for someof you, and maybe all of us.

AFSCME Local 1092’sChris St. Germaine is urgingeveryone to call Gov. MarkDayton and let him know thatthe Care Carlton chemicaldependency facility needs to bekept open. It is the only facilityin the state that is run bywomen only for women onlyand its the best scenario to helpwomen get their lives backtogether.

It was formerly known asLiberalis and the building isowned by Inter-Faith CareCenter across Hwy. 45 inCarlton that gets about $25,000in rent. A private company iswaiting for its closure some say

It seems that any facilitythat isn’t in the Metro area istargeted for closure by Daytonand his administration. Fordecades Republicans havebeen complaining that the statehas to get out of helping thoseless fortunate among us andallow the private sector to takeover. What we’ve ended upwith is private facilities usingpoorly trained staff to poorlycare for residents as the owners

get rich on the money they getfrom the state and taxpayers.

“We fought to get Daytonelected against a right to workcandidate, and we’ve got abudget surplus but he doesn’twant to put money into helpingthe most vulnerable,” St.Germaine told fellow CentralBody delegates.

You can call Dayton at 1-651-201-3400.

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Thanks for strikers’ donationSisters and Brothers:This letter is to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation

of the Duluth Central Labor Body for your second generous giftof $499. Our members of USW Local 11-63, THE IRON 5, thatare on strike for 98 days as of this writing (April 8, 2015) wantto say THANK YOU! Without your support this labor strugglewould be next to impossible.

The issues these brothers are fighting for are important to usall: Pension, Healthcare, Definition of the work week, and wageincreases. We will be forever indebted to you.

In Solidarity,Brady Nelson, President, USW Local 11-63Dennis Altobell, Steward/OperatorScott Olean, OperatorDoug Nelson, OperatorDoug Christofferson, Maintenance

Spaghetti benefit for IRON 5The Carlton County Central Labor Body is inviting everyone

to join them in a spaghetti benefit dinner for the IRON 5 mem-bers of USW Local 11-63 on strike at SMI in Cloquet since Dec.31. The event is Monday, April 27, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in theupstairs of the Cloquet Labor Temple, 1403 Avenue C.Suggested donation is $10 but kids eat free.

“We are also asking that you bring your gently used wintergear for us to distribute to families in need,” said CCCLBPresident Tamara Jones.

As a Fire Fighter I’ve seen howdevastating work injuries are tothose injured and their families.

As a State Representative I’ll continue to do all I can to

make work places safer. Rep. Erik SimonsonMN House of Representatives • District 7B

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Union organizing helps entire economy, weakening unions hurts everyoneBy

Rep.Mike

SundinDFLEsko,MNThe efforts of unions and

grassroots labor organizinghave benefitted all workers inour economy. It’s a fact. Manyof us are quick to forget, ormaybe we never learned, thatmany of the benefits we con-sider rights in the modernMinnesota workplace wereonly dreams to the workingpeople in our grandparent’sgeneration and before.

The American workplacethat existed before it was legalto unionize wasn’t an Americathat most of us would enjoy.

Last month marked the104th anniversary of theTriangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

of March 25, 1911. There were150 women and girls burnedalive behind locked doors intheir upper level New YorkCity sweatshop that had barson the windows and no fireescape. Countless workplacetragedies like the Triangle fire,and other depictions of danger-ous and unhealthy work condi-tions in mines, packing plants,assembly lines, and mills raisedthe call to business magnatesand corporate elite that theyneeded to value human life,and the integrity of everyworker, as highly as they val-ued the profits those workersbrought in.

It was the call to unionize,to organize and to strike thatmade these demands clear.Union workers were there toensure that all workers wouldhave safer workplaces, ade-quate rest time, good retire-ments, additional skills train-ing, and a guaranteed mini-mum wage at the federal and

state level.It’s true that a majority of

workers in our state are notmembers of a union, but theyall enjoy many of the benefitsthat union workers have foughtfor and brought to them. Theorganizing work of neighborsin our community have pushedpolitical leaders to be moreattentive to the needs of work-ing people. Unions make allfamily economies stronger.

This was on full display inlate March as the MinnesotaHouse began debate on aRepublican bill to lower theminimum wage for tippedemployees. A broad coalitionof workers from severalunions, and they’re partners,protested outside the chamber.These people aren’t wealthy.They’re not the millionaires.They couldn’t pay for lobbyistsor lawyers on their own, butwhen they work together withother organized workers theycan help stand up to the monied

interests trying to find ways topay workers less.

It was disappointing towatch Republican lawmakersvote down every DFL attemptto amend the bill with languagefrom our Working Parents Actthat would guarantee earnedsick leave, paid family leave,fair scheduling practices, andstop wage theft by employers.All of these initiatives are sup-ported by organized labor forevery worker in Minnesota, notjust unionized workers, and theGOP opposed every one.

There are over 88,000 unionhouseholds in our 8th Congres-sional District, and the work ofthose families helped pass theeconomic victories for workingpeople we accomplished in thelast two years. We know thoselabor households not onlystrongly lobby their lawmak-ers, but they contribute to thesuccess of progressive candi-dates by an overwhelming mar-gin. The vocal advocacy ofthose union families was thereason DFLers were able topass all-day kindergarten fund-ing, a minimum wage increasethat was indexed to inflation,and workplace fairness forwomen and mothers (Women’sEconomic Security Act) in2014. Those accomplishmentsbuild on the union economicvictories of the past – SocialSecurity, Medicare, minimumwaged, and other major piecesof legislation that benefit every

single America worker.When the workplace safe-

guards achieved by unions arerolled back, the economy isweakened for all of us. Wedon’t need to look any furtherthan next door to see the con-tinued decline of the middleclass economy in Wisconsinafter Republican GovernorScott Walker signed legislationtwice to destroy the ability ofunions to effectively organize.

Minnesota has taken a dif-ferent approach. After askingthe wealthiest 2% to pay morein income taxes, we were ableto let teachers keep their union,increase their pay, and provideincreased funding for class-rooms. Minnesota strength-ened our current collective bar-gaining agreements, and alsoextended the right to personalcare and home health workersto expand economic opportuni-ty for more workers. Our econ-omy is growing faster, ourunemployment rate is lower,and we continue to recoverfaster than Wisconsin from theGreat Recession. Unionsweren’t the problem, they’rethe answer.

Rep. Sundin, a member ofPainters & Allied Trades Local106, encourages constituentsto contact him with any ques-tions, comments, concerns, orideas on any legislative topic.He can be reached by phone at651-296-4308 or by email atrep.mike.sundin@house.mn

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SPEAK OUT FOR SAFE JOBS!As we remember all workers who have been victimized by their employment, we renew our fight for strong workplace safety andhealth protections, andworld peace, to save military lives and so ourresources can be used tohelp people.

Unions lead the struggle for safer working conditions,dignity, and respect on the job for all workers.

Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body

Workers Memorial Day

2015Organize/Mobilize For Safe Jobs!

Join us for a free breakfast 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., Monday, April 27, in the Duluth Labor Temple's Wellstone Hall.

A Memorial Ceremony at 9:15 a.m. will remember all ourbrothers and sisters who have lost their lives, been injured

and/or fallen victim to disease as a result of workplace hazards or wars. We’ll call on Congress to not jeopardizeworkers’ lives by destroying our workplace safety rights.

Big changes for USPS workers and customers will hit region April 18In a presentation to four

dozen members of the TwinPorts Postal Customer CouncilApril 9, U.S. Postal ServiceActing Senior Manager ofOperations Linda Padden saidthe plan to shutdown DuluthArea Mail Processing Centerchanged again on April 8. TheSaturday, April 18 shutdownwill basically be for first classmail.

It will not include packages,newspapers, and the finalprocess of letters and flat maildestined for zip codes startingwith 556, 557, and 558, as wellas Superior’s 54880. Duluth’sBulk Mail Entry Unit will alsoremain open here.

Padden said she didn’tknow how the Duluth closurewould “affect local staffing.”Earlier reports had about halfthe 80 members of AmericanPostal Workers GreaterNorthland Area Local 142 hav-ing their jobs in jeopardy orhaving to move to keep a jobwith USPS. About an hour laterafter discussions about thefinancial problems USPS isfacing Padden said, “at nopoint are we at the point whereemployees won’t be paid.”

Todd Fawcett, President ofAPWU 142, said he had want-ed to attend the TPPCC meet-ing but was denied. “I expectvery few employees will losetheir job if at all unless man-agement alters their decisiononce again,” he said. “At thistime, there will be no impactsto staffing but as always that issubject to change.”

There is very little trust ofpostal management by employ-ees or the public as the TPPCCmeeting showed.

Report your delayed mailDelayed mail is recorded by the Postal Regulatory

Commission each quarter and reported every year. Postal cus-tomers can report delayed mail pieces. Visit www.prc.gov/con-tact and click “message type” then click “complaint.” Next click“subject” then “mail delivery/ postal services.”

Give your name and address, then describe your complaint.You can only type 1000 characters. Give information about thepiece(s), dates, where it was mailed from and where it wasgoing, and if it was delayed more than four days due to servicestandard changes. Be sure to mention if you live near a closedmail processing center such as Duluth’s. Ask PRC to rescind thenew service standards changes and stop closures. Click Submit.

You can also write to Postal Regulatory Commission, 901New York Avenue NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20268.

You can also contact your Congressional House members atthe U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 and ask them tosupport H.Resolutions 12, 28, and 54, and bill HR 784.

Visit deliveringforamerica.com to findout more about your U.S. Postal Service

“Closure” was too harsh aword for Padden and the USPSso they use the word “consoli-dation” instead in addressingtheir dismantling of the mostrespected government agencyby the American people.

Most mail will now beprocessed in Eagan, MN andshipped back for delivery.Collection times at blue boxeswill also change. If mail isn’t tothe Duluth post office by 3:00p.m. it will likely sit hereovernight. Service to areas out-side post offices will be poorwith customers overnightexpectations becoming 2 to 3days minimum after April 18.

Managers at the TPPCCmeeting said letter carriers willbe back to drop mail prior to3:00 p.m. but Scott Dulas,President of National Associa-tion of Letter Carriers ZenithBranch 14 Merged, said thatdoesn’t happen now for half thecarriers and won’t in the future.Dulas was on vacation so heattended the TPPCC meetingeven though he was told not to.

He expressed his concerns tomanagement about service tobusiness customers who needquick delivery and may usechutes in their buildings formailings. He was also con-cerned about what happenswhen blizzards and road clo-sures keep mail from beingshipped to Eagan for process-ing. And he let them know howridiculous it is to pre-fundhealth benefits for employeesthat may not be born for 50more years.

To his credit Dan Mooney,District Retail Manager, toldTPPCC members that a majorpart of USPS financial distressis the 2006 law that requirespre-funding of health benefits75 years into the future in tenyears to 2016.

“Back then (2006) our vol-ume was much greater and wewere seen as a cash cow forgovernment so they put thepre-funding requirement on,”Mooney said. But with thedrop in volume and loss of rev-enue, USPS has been unable to

pay that $5.5 billion a year thatgoes on the financial statement.

“It’s been in Congress foryears to end the pre-funding foremployees that aren’t even onthe rolls now...that’s what’sdriving a lot of this,” Mooneysaid. People should contacttheir congressional representa-tives he said but Rep. RickNolan is behind us Mooneyadded. Without that $5.5 bil-lion a year deficit USPS couldactually show a profit forrecent years.

Duluth USPS plant managerBill Jaskari told TPPCC mem-bers that the decreased volumeof mail, especially first class, ismaking poor use of equipmentand employees and so changeshave to be made.

“We have the machines butnot the mail and consolidationwill allow (USPS) to maximizea bigger facility and downsizehere,” Jaskari said. The firstclass stamp has been the majorrevenue source but it isn’t usedas much anymore. He said thevolume of cancelled stampedmail has dropped from 160,000to 210,000 a night ten yearsago to only 70,000 to 90,000

pieces today.Padden said half of the first

class mailings have been lostnationally in the past year.

“We have decreased rev-enue and greater capacity inmail processing,” Padden saidof the 141 consolidations thatbegan in 2012 and 2013.

Duluth will be added to EauClaire, LaCrosse, Rochester,Mankato, and St. Cloud in los-ing their AMP origination oper-ations. They didn’t say it butBemidji is set to lose its AMPin July to Fargo.

USPS is making a move tohandle more parcels as welland that will affect delivery. Inthe Metro area they have start-ed delivering parcels onSunday Padden said.

Postal union members havestated there has been an effortto undermine the postal serviceto make it ripe for privatizationfor years as the “service” of“postal service” is undermined.

Plans for rate increasesplanned for later this month areon hold, perhaps until summer,as the independent Postal RateCommission and USPS hashout the changes.

Too many of our members have had

their lives cut short, or the quality

of their lives severely affected, by

materials they use and conditions

they work under every day.

We take Safety and

Workers’Memorial

Dayvery

seriously.Painters & AlliedTrades Local 106Leading the way to Safety thru Training

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Visit www.apwu.org to help fight the attacks against our U.S. Postal Service!

Nolan confirms significant postal delays after meeting with USPS COOMinnesota’s 8th Congres-

sional District Rep. Rick Nolansaid the U.S. Postal Servicemust have started listeningafter their announcement thatDuluth’s Area Mail ProcessingCenter will remain open pastthe previously announced April18 consolidation deadline:

“Their plan to close downthe state of the art Duluth sort-ing facility is ill conceived,inefficient, expensive andunnecessary. It would put anend to one-day delivery in ourregion and present a host oflogistical problems for both the We all need to stop

and remember on

those who have paid far too dear a price

for their jobs.

Patrick BOYLESt. Louis County Board, District 2

Workers Memorial Day 2013

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In a conversation with thenPostmaster General PatrickDonahoe Nolan said he prom-ised to personally review theDuluth closing. Donahoe also

acknowledged the financialproblems the USPS is experi-encing are NOT connected toefficient facilities like the onein Duluth - but rather to an out-dated requirement that $5 bil-lion a year be set aside forhealth benefits for futureretirees. That fund now enjoysa $50 billion cushion.

Nolan recently met withUSPS Chief Operating OfficerDavid Williams where heexpressed deep concerns over“critical delays in postal deliv-eries resulting from consolidat-ing the Duluth sorting facility -

and the problems employeeswould experience in relocatingto other communities.”

Following his meeting withWilliams, Nolan says it is clearmail will be significantlydelayed from one day to 3 or 4days due to the USPS decisionto consolidate the Duluthpostal processing facility.

“I am immensely frustratedwith the predicament beingplaced on USPS patrons innortheastern Minnesota.Starting in April, by the time

your so called “one day” deliv-ery process starts, it willalready have been two full days– and your mail won’t actuallyarrive for three or four days.

Nolan explained: “Startingsoon − if you bring your mailearly in the day to the local postoffice (on any day the branch isopen), those letters and parcelswill not be processed at the St.Paul facility until the followingday − provided it gets to the St.Paul facility by 8:00 the fol-lowing morning,” Nolan said.

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OSHA report documents cost of job injuries, declining workers’ comp(PAI)--Saying “statistics are

people with the tears washedoff,” a new OccupationalSafety and Health Administra-tion report on job injuries andillnesses documents their costsand shines the spotlight on thedeclining role of workers’comp in paying for them and inaiding injured and ill workers.

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It gave the example of aVirginia worker, Robert, whoworked for an insulation manu-facturer until he “climbed on afoam grinder to clean out somematerial and the managerturned on the machine,” hiswife, Jessica, wrote. His footwas mangled and Robert hashad multiple surgeries, andwears a special boot to walk.The family ran out of moneydue to inadequate workers’comp and had to move to ashelter until they found a new

apartment, mold-ridden andflea-infested.

“Before being injured myhusband ran and played outsideevery day with our two toddlersons,” Jessica wrote. “We wishto have answers to why thereare so many laws in Virginia toprotect employers...if they haddone THEIR job enforcingOSHA regulations...accidentslike this would never happen.”

The average injured workerwho can come back to workafter being hurt earns $3,100less per year in the decade afterthe injury, OSHA found.Workers and their insurers bearhalf of the costs of job injuries.Private insurance pays another13%, and federal programs likeMedicare and Medicaidaccount for 16%. Workers’comp covers only 21% of thecosts, if workers can get it.

“State legislatures andcourts have made it increasing-ly difficult for injured workersto receive the payments for lost

wages and medical expensesthat they deserve.” Fewer thanhalf of Massachusetts workerswho suffered on-the-job ampu-tations got workers’ comp, asdid fewer than one-third ofCalifornia workers with ampu-tations and fewer than one-third of California workers suf-fering from carpal tunnel...”

The workers’ comp systemhas become so bad for workersthat fewer than 40% of injuredand ill workers who couldreceive benefits even apply,OSHA says. Many can’t applybecause they’re toiling for jointemployers -- who don’t takeresponsibility for safety condi-tions -- or employers misclassi-fy them as “independent con-tractors” and evade payingworkers comp. Or they’retemps. 37.5% of Texas con-struction workers were inde-pendent contractors. So were35.5% in North Carolina and16% in Florida. That’s500,000 workers in three states

Workers’ compensation per-forms even more poorly forlow-wage and immigrantworkers, who fear losing theirjobs and may not file a claim.

“Workers with job-relatedillnesses do even worse, as“most cases of work-relatedchronic disease are never diag-nosed as work-related. When alinkage is made, the diagnosisgenerally comes long afteremployment ends. Even whena proper diagnosis is made, aworker who is eligible for ben-efits under Medicare,Medicaid, Veterans’ Benefits orprivate insurers is more likelyto take that route, and avoid thebarriers to obtaining benefits”in workers’ compensation.

OSHA’s #1 goal the reportsays, is prevention: Employersmust stop or fix the conditionsthat cause illnesses andinjuries. Using nursing homesas an example, it says the over-all on-the-job injury rate in theindustry -- which OSHA sin-gled out for special targeting,

along with construction -- is5.2 injuries per 100 workers.

“By forcing the costs ofinjury and illness onto workers,families and the taxpayer,unsafe employers have fewerincentives to eliminate work-place hazards and actually pre-vent injuries and illnesses fromoccurring. Under this brokensystem, these workers, theirfamilies and the taxpayer sub-sidize unsafe employers,increasing the likelihood thateven more workers will beinjured or made sick.”

“Despite a more-than-40-year-old legal obligation toprovide safe workplaces, theunwillingness of manyemployers to prevent millionsof work injuries and illnesseseach year, and the failure of thebroken workers’ compensationsystem to ensure that workersdo not bear the costs of theirinjuries and illnesses, are trulyadding inequality to injury,”OSHA concludes.

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Unions have fought hard for years to improve working conditions for all American workers.

Our efforts have resulted in hugeimprovements in safety sinceOSHA became law in 1970. Since then over 370,000 U.S.workers have been killed on thejob, and every year attempts aremade to gut Minnesota and federalOSHA to improve companies’ profit margins.

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23rd Annual Letter Carriers Food Drive will fill shelves Saturday, May 9Preparations are under way

for the nation’s largest single-day food drive – the NationalAssociation of Letter CarriersAnnual “Stamp Out Hunger”Food Drive. This region willjoin 10,000 cities and towns inall 50 states, the District ofColumbia, Puerto Rico, theVirgin Islands and Guam forthe event on Saturday, May 9.

From major metropolitanareas to small rural towns, resi-dents put out non-perishablefood donations on that day,which letter carriers and volun-teers collect as they delivermail along their postal routes.

Last year’s drive gathered72.5 million pounds of food –the 11th consecutive year theNALC drive has surpassed 70million pounds of food collect-ed. Those results bring the totalto more than 1.3 billion poundssince the national drive beganin 1992.

In northwest Wisconsin andnorthern Minnesota well over amillion pounds have been col-lected. Each year over 160,000pounds are collected locally.That’s almost 10% of the year’stotal distribution for area foodshelves. All food stays in thecommunity in which it was col-lected.

The success of the drivecomes from postal patronsleaving non-perishable items insturdy bags for their LetterCarriers and volunteers on thesecond Saturday each May.

“Our Food Drive alwaysfalls on Mother’s Day weekendand Minnesota’s fishing open-er, but it’s a national event sowe work around everything tohelp Stamp Out Hunger and itworks,” said Scott Dulas,President of NALC Zenith

Branch 114 Merged. “We’llactually pick up food onFriday, Saturday, and evenMonday, May 11,” said Dulas.

Forty-nine million Ameri-cans are food insecure, mean-ing they live at risk of hungerand may not know where theirnext meal is coming from.Nearly 16 million children areliving in food insecure house-holds. That’s 1 in 6 Americansand more than 1 in 5 children. 1in 7 Americans live at or belowthe poverty level. 1 in 7Americans use SNAP benefits(formerly Food Stamps). 4.8million seniors face choicesbetween paying rent, utilitiesand having enough food.

A lot of volunteers are need-ed to help Letter Carriers asthey deliver the mail and col-lect food that patrons leave out-side their mailboxes.

“We’re very proud of ourmembers’ efforts to feed the

hungry but we couldn’t do itwithout the volunteers,” saidDulas. “Some of those volun-teers have been with us everyyear – very impressive!”

Volunteers to travel routeswith Letter Carriers is criticaland those with pickup trucksare especially helpful.

Almost all that food ends upat the back of the main postoffice in Duluth’s West Endand help is needed there forunloading, sorting, and reload-ing. Dulas said volunteers areneeded until about 6:00 p.m. onSaturday, May 9 there.

Meg Kearns of CHUM(Churches United in Ministry)does much of the coordinatingof volunteers. She can bereached at 727-2391. LynetteSwanberg of the CommunityServices Program also helpswith volunteer organizing. Hernumber is 726-4775 or emailcommservices@unitedway

duluth.orgAnyone that

can show up onMay 10 will bewelcomed andtasks are easy tofind.

Super Onestores have dropoff sites for fooddonations as well.

N a t i o n a l l yofficial sponsorsof the NALCFood Driveinclude theNational RuralLetter Carriers’A s s o c i a t i o n ,Campbell SoupCompany, Valpak,U.S. PostalService, UnitedWay, AFL-CIO,

Feeding America, Uncle Bob’sStorage, AARP, GLS, SourceDirect Plastics, Publix andValassis.

In this region sponsorsinclude Super One, LakeheadConstructors, Paper Hog, andthe SiebenCarey law firm. TheSieben firm sponsors Bernie’sBBQ for volunteers on the day

of the food drive behindDuluth’s main post office, 2800West Michigan Street.

So don’t forget to leavenon-perishable food items ingood bags by your mailboxSaturday, May 9 even if you’releaving early to catch somewalleyes.

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Please join us Saturday, May 9for our 23rd NALC Food Drive!

Call Meg Kearns at 727-2391 to volunteer, andleave non-perishables near your mailbox May 9.

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Fatal work injuries decline, rise for Firefighters, Hispanics, independentsWASHINGTON (PAI)--

The number of fatal workinjuries declined by more than200 in 2013, compared to theyear before, the Bureau ofLabor Statistics reported. Butthe number of fatalities amongHispanic-named workers,“independent contractors” andfirefighters rose.

BLS said preliminary datafor 2013 showed 4,405 fatalinjuries at work last year, downfrom 4,628 in 2012.

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4,405 too many,” said OSHAAdministrator Dr. DavidMichaels of the job death num-bers. “We’ll use these statisticsto better target our resources.”

BLS released the numbersthe day the Occupational Safe-ty and Health Administration(OSHA) released its final ruleupdating which job deaths andinjuries employers must report.

The key change is that anyemployer must not only reportany death on the job, but nowmust also report any injury thatcauses amputation of a singleworker’s arm or leg, loss of aneye, or hospitalization. Before,three workers had to suffer

amputation, hospitalization orloss of eyes before the employ-er had to report to OSHA (seestory next page).

OSHA’s targeting couldfocus on the contractors, moreoutreach to Hispanic-namedworkers and aiding firstresponders, due to the increasein deaths from fires and explo-sions, Michaels said.

BLS said fires and explo-sions killed 148 workers,including 53 firefighters, lastyear. In 2012, fires and explo-sions killed 122 workers,including 18 firefighters.Much of the increase camewhen 19 firefighters died inone horrific wildfire accidentin Arizona.

Fatal injuries amongHispanic-named workers roseto 797 in 2013 from 748 in2012. Almost half (352) of theyear’s dead were born inMexico. And 734 “indepen-dent contractors” – 367 in con-struction – died last year on thejob, up from 715 in 2013. One-third of all contractors fell totheir deaths.

The dead contract workersincluded 95 construction labor-ers, 55 truckers, 48 construc-tion on-site managers andsupervisors, 39 roofers, 26 car-penters, 26 electricians, 22security guards, 14 landscap-ers, 14 tree trimmers and 13welders and cutters.

“This suggests we’ll have tolook at the contractors further,”and possibly shift people andmoney into probing deaths inthat job category, Michaelssaid. “On the temps, we’re rec-

ommending there be constantcommunication betweenstaffing agencies and employ-ers” that hire them. “But thedirect employer must keep theOSHA log” of injuries andfatalities.

Roadway crashes (1,153),murders and suicides on the job(803), deaths from fallingequipment or objects (723) andfalls, slips and trips (704)accounted for more than half ofall deaths on the job in 2013,BLS said. There was littlechange from the year before inmost categories, except for theroadway crashes, where deathsrose by 162 in one year. Theyaccounted for 22 percent of alljob deaths last year.

Though the BLS numbers

did not say so, Michaels told atelephone press conference thatmany on-the-job deaths are atworksites where OSHAprobers discover prior viola-tions and injuries. “Thirty-two-year-old Luis Pavia Riverawas killed” when a machine“which should have beenturned off to protect workers,wasn’t,” he said. When OSHAarrived, its inspectors “foundthat a prior worker had acrushed forearm and anotherhad an amputation” becausethat same employer hadn’tturned off the machine. OSHAlevied a $700,000 fine.

(The AFL-CIO’s Death onthe Job report for last year willbe released for WorkersMemorial Day, April 28.)

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Remembering 2,976 ofour own (as of Sept. 2014)and all workers whohave lost their lives inthe performance of their jobs and duties.

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OSHA has new reports for deaths, amputations, hospitalization, eye loss(PAI)--The Occupational

Safety and Health Administra-tion is ordering businessesnationwide to report not justevery death on the job, butevery accident that results in anamputation of a worker’s armor leg, requires hospitalization,or loss of an eye. It abolishedsome previous exemptions forreporting those injuries.

The new rule “will indicatewhere (agency) intervention iswarranted,” OSHA Adminis-trator Dr. David Michaels said.The new rule took effect Jan. 1in states where OSHA inspectsworkplaces. In states with theirown federally approvedOSHAs, the new rule starts

when the state OSHA says so.OSHA’s old rule let firms

skip reporting hospitalizations,amputations or loss of eyes ifthe accidents involved three orfewer workers. That’s gone bythe boards, Michaels said. Onereason is that when OSHAinvestigators arrive at the siteof a workplace fatality, theyoften find the same faultymachine or process injuredother workers before.

The AFL-CIO praised thenew rule, and said OSHAincluded most of the fed’s pro-posals in its final version. TheChamber of Commerce com-plained about more paperwork.

But Michaels said that

wouldn’t necessarily be thecase. By increasing reportingrequirements, he explained,OSHA can work more quicklyand cooperatively with firmswhere accidents expose prob-lems. And he claimed thatmost companies want to followthe law. And OSHA posts allaccident reports on the web, hereminded reporters, as a deter-rent. “No employer wants theirworkplace to be known as anunsafe place,” Michaels said.

“We support the rule,” saidRebecca Reindel, a senior safe-ty and health specialist at theAFL-CIO. “It’s pretty similarto their proposed rule” in 2011,“but we suggested some

stronger requirements and theytook some of our commentsseriously. The AFL-CIObelieves all employers shouldbe reporting – which is why wesupported their proposal forreporting all hospitalizations,amputations” and eye losses.

But Reindel added that evenemployers in low-hazardindustries, such as finance andinsurance, should face tougherrequirements. “Serious haz-ards can occur in any work-place, even in low-hazardindustries,” she said.

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ON WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY:It is important for all of us to stop and

remember those who have lost their lives,

been disabled, or become ill because of their

employment. That is part of the healing process and

it helps us make sure we are

working to reduce those sad

numbers each year.

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Picketing may have turned Dunkin’ Donuts expansions toward unionsOn April 1 affiliated unions

of the Duluth Building andConstruction Trades Councilstarted picketing the non-unionconstruction of the area’s firstDunkin’ Donuts shop onCentral Entrance. Their“Shame On You” banner wasgreeted by an unbelievablenumber of vehicles honkingtheir horns in support as workcontinued at the site. It’s quiet

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there now after five days ofpickets though as the ownerand the Building Trades havereached an agreement.

“We reached out to theowner from the get-go on theimportance of using unionlabor in this region,” saidDBCTC President Craig Olson“I think he also got the messagefrom the amount of honkingsupport we received from so

many people.”Owner Brian Weidendorf

has a plan to build as many as19 more Dunkin’ Donuts in theupper midwest. Olson said hehas now made a commitmentto build his five other shops inthe Twin Ports and on the IronRange using union labor.

“We will continue to workin good faith with Brian toshow him that using our

skilled, union labor is the wayto go here, the same as we dowith every builder,” Olson said“Our Trades will use whateverresources available to gainmarket share and work oppor-tunities for our members.”

Olson thanked the dozens ofmembers who helped upholdarea standards by picketing at

the Central Entrance jobsite. “We want to be able to help

our members and their familiesget jobs, and we want to helpBrian have successful shops,”said Olson. “This should be awin-win situation for all of us.”

Weidendorf also owns anumber of McDonald’s fran-chises south of Cloquet.

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Our members work in an unsafe industry!Our members work in an unsafe industry!We need the right to refuse unsafe work and protection from discrimination for reporting injuries, illnesses and unsafe conditions!We need a system of oversight and coordination onmulti-employer projects!We need an Office of Construction Safety, Health and Education at OSHA!

Duluth BuildingDuluth Building && Construction Trades CouncilConstruction Trades CouncilCraig Olson, President, (218) 724-6466Craig Olson, President, (218) 724-6466

Boilermakers Lodge 647 ~ (218) 326-2522

Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Local 1 ~ (218) 724-8374

Carpenters Local 361 ~ (218) 724-3297

Cement Masons, Plasterers & ShophandsLocal 633 ~ (218) 724-2323

Electrical Workers Local 242 ~ (218) 728-6895

Elevator Constructors Local 9 ~ (651) 287-0817

Insulators Local 49 ~ (218) 724-3223

Iron Workers Local 512 ~ (218) 724-5073

Laborers Local 1091 ~ (218) 728-5151

Millwrights Local 1348 ~ (218) 741-6314

Operating Engineers Local 49 ~ (218) 724-3840

Painters & Allied Trades Local 106 ~ (218) 724-6466

Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 11 ~ (218) 727-2199

Roofers, Waterproofers Local 96 ~ (218) 644-1096

Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 ~ (218) 724-6873

Sprinkler Fitters Local 669 ~ (507) 493-5671

Teamsters Local 346 ~ (218) 628-1034

Working in the constructiontrades for three decades hasmade me a strong advocate for workplace safety. I am a

worker’s advocate in St. Paul!

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Upper Big Branch CEO indictments rewritten, gag order lifted on caseCHARLESTON, W. VA.

(PAI)--The federal governmenthas issued a new indictment offormer Massey Energy CEODon Blankenship for his role inthe fatal Upper Big Branchmine explosion and disasterfive years ago. The March 10ruling rolls two conspiracycounts into one and still leaveshim facing up to 30 years in jailif convicted on all charges.More importantly, U.S. DistrictJudge Irene Berger lifted thegag order she imposed last yearon everybody involved, includ-ing the families of the 29 work-

This nation has a terrible history of death, injury and illness in the workplace.

All working Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Unions for their efforts

in making work safer and more bearable.

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ers killed in the blast, theirattorneys and Blankenship.That will let the survivors starttelling prosecutors, and themedia, about the explosion andits aftermath. It will also let thefamilies of the dead miners usetheir experience to testifybefore the GOP-run WestVirginia legislature in its hear-ings on corporate-backed legis-lation to gut the state’s minesafety laws and to enact a so-called right-to-work law.

The U.S. attorney for WestVirginia indicted Blankenshiplast November on violatingmine safety and health laws,

conspiracy to do so, impedingfederal mine safety officials,making false statements to theSecurities and Exchange Com-mission about the financialimpact on Massey from law-suits resulting from the UBBblast, and securities fraud.

Investigations by the MineSafety and Health Administra-tion and the Mine Workersshowed a pattern of unsafeconditions at UBB and a cul-ture that put profits before safe-ty at Massey. Blankenshipordered and fostered thatemphasis, probers found. Butthe gag order barred the fami-lies of the dead miners frompublicly discussing the compa-ny’s actions. Now they can.

That’s important becausethe legislature is ponderingmeasures to gut state minesafety laws. The Mine Workersare campaigning against thatbill and against right to work,too. The GOP controls thestate senate 18-16 and the statehouse 64-36.

If it takes effect, “right towork” would let miners -- andother workers -- use anyunion’s services without hav-ing to pay either dues or agencyfees for them. That would costUMW money it needs to be anadvocate for non-union minerskilled or injured in WestVirginia, both in probes such asat Upper Big Branch andbefore the legislature.

Though Upper Big Branch’smine was non-union -- as wasthe rest of Massey -- UMWstepped in, using its mine safe-ty expertise and at the families’request, to probe the 2010 blastand be a miners’ advocate.

“The coal industry is sayingthe state needs to do thisbecause West Virginia’s minesafety and health law is morestringent than federal law. Youbet it is, and for a very goodreason,” the union said.

“West Virginia is always ator near the top in the number ofminers who are killed on thejob every year, and we havemore miners working in thedangerous underground envi-ronment than any other state.

They need every single protec-tion they can possibly have,especially those who work atnonunion mines and do nothave the ability to speak up forthemselves without fear of get-ting fired,” the union said.

“As long as miners continueto die in West Virginia’s mines,we need to be looking for waysto strengthen health and safetyprotections, not gut them.Have we forgotten the lessonsof Sago, Aracoma and UpperBig Branch so soon?

“This legislation is...abouttaking money out of the mostadvanced state safety andhealth requirements in Americaand putting it in the pockets ofcoal operators,” UMW said.

WORKERS’WORKERS’MEMORIAL MEMORIAL

DAYDAYIn memory of the deceased members of the Duluth Federation of Teachers, Local 692

We have all benefited by theircontributions to the union,

to educationand to the community.

DuluthFederation of Teachers

Local 692

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Study finds union mines are safer, more productive than non-union onesBy Mike HallAFL-CIO BlogOnce again, a study has

shown that unionized coalmines are not only safer placesto work than nonunion mines,but that union miners producemore coal. The study, by SNLEnergy, found that in 2013unionized mines in northern

and central Appalachia pro-duced about 94,091 tons ofcoal per injury versus 71,110 innonunion mines, despiteresearch suggesting that union-ized miners are more likely toreport injuries that haveoccurred on the job.

The SNL report by TaylorKuykendall and Hira Fawad

notes that its findings follow a2012 study authored byStanford University labor regu-lation expert Alison Morantzand found that unionization isassociated with a 13% to 30%drop in traumatic injuries and a28% to 83% drop in fatalities indata from 1993 to 2010.

When it comes to produc-

tion, union miners producedabout 17% more coal peremployee an hour than workersat nonunion mines in 2013 and16% more last year.

In an article on the study onits website, Phil Smith, aspokesman for the MineWorkers (UMWA), told SNLEnergy:

“The union was formed 125years ago by miners seeking toimprove their pay and workingconditions, including makingthe mines safer places to work.Those needs still exist today.[SNL Energy’s] data demon-strates that union mines aresafer mines; others have foundsimilar results.”

Both Smith and TonyOppegard, a Kentucky attorneywho specializes in mining lawsand coal mine safety, pointed tothe protections in a union con-tract, including the right torefuse unsafe work withoutretaliation and a worker-elect-ed and empowered mine safetycommittee, as key factors in thebetter safety records at unionmines. Oppegard said:

“You work in a nonunionmine, you pretty much do whatyou’re told to do, includingrisking life and limb, or elseyou’re going to lose yourjob….At a nonunion mine,they don’t have that same cush-ion to try to resolve issues atthe job site.”

You can read the entirereport at https://www.snl.com/InteractiveX/Article.aspx?cdid=A-31867608-11563

International Association of Heat& Frost Insulatorsand Allied Workers

Local 49Duluth, MNChartered 1937

In Memory...Of our manymembers who

have died because oftheir jobs

PAGE 14 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015

John E. SomersUtility LinemanJune 11, 1971

Kenneth L. MeintsSr. Elect - Maint. & Construction

January 14, 1972

Teddy E. BurgraffUtility Maintenance & Repairman

April 13, 1979

Joseph W. StattelmanUtility LinemanAugust 13, 1981

Jeff RoweUtility LinemanOctober 1, 1990

Roger WhitesideUtility LinemanOctober 1, 1990

Kenneth W. GravesCable Splicer

September 19, 1997

Leslie R. BeachLinestakerJuly 4, 1999

Kerry RoeSappi Maintenance Electrician

November 11, 2003

Donald KingUtility Lineman

April 1, 1954

Robert HinkleyUtility Lineman

November 12, 1959

Tom BrownInside WiremanAugust 13, l963

Howard BluhmHead Utility Lineman

October 14, 1964

Charles A. EricksonMaintenance & Construction

February 9, 1965

Roy PaulsonConstruction Lineman

August 20, 1965

Lowell KramerUtility Lineman

November 25, 1968

Harlan W. LehtoMaintenance & Construction

June 19, 1970

Kenneth HamrenUtility Electrician

May 19, 1971

Francis LightnerHydro-Electric Operator

February 16, 1940

Louis SaelensMaintenance & Construction Laborer

March 31, 1943

Fred GrienerUtility Lineman

June, 1943

Roy MartiniUtility Lineman April 16, 1947

Walter S. JohnsonUtility Operator

December 20, 1948

George E. DionUtility Lineman

June 28, 1950

Richard J. AdamsonUtility Lineman

April 5, 1951

Toivo SillanpaaUtility Lineman

April 15, 1953

Dewey R. HarmonMaintenance & Construction Helper

September l8, 1953

WORK SAFE!HOME SAFE!!

Free trade agreements continue to kill American jobs, help the rich...from page 1 American Dream anymore.

We have an AmericanNightmare and I’ve hadenough.”

USW District 11 Rapid Re-sponse Coordinator Bob Ryantold Nolan that there are quotason imported sugar and thereshould be quotas on importedsteel as well. But it goes farbeyond that as all sectors of hisunion have been affected bytrade agreements, includingpaper and tires he said.

The USW leads the way infiling cases against illegaldumping but Ryan said harmhas to be shown first and bythen its too late for all theworkers affected by dumpingin the U.S. He said BuyAmerican provisions wouldhelp but they’d be illegal inTPP.

The secrecy behind thetrade deals had a number ofspeakers irked.

Josh Wise, outgoing direc-tor of the Minnesota Fair TradeCoalition, said the negotiationsare classified even for mem-bers of Congress, many of

TPP & MN’s 8th Congressional Dist.The Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement would

touch on a wide scope of issues and puts American workers andconsumers at risk. Rep. Rick Nolan says notable issues affectingMinnesota’s 8th Congressional District that he represents are:

• Job Losses: The TPP would give a competitive advantage toforeign competition. It is estimated that since NAFTA went intoeffect, the United States has lost 5 million manufacturing jobsand 57,000 U.S. manufacturing facilities. The TPP would forceAmericans to compete with countries like Vietnam, where theminimum wage is 56 cents per hour and workers receive no ben-efits.

• The 8th District lost approximately 900 jobs to Mexico (afree trade partner) in 2010 alone.

• Currency manipulation: Despite bipartisan pressure, theTPP has no currency chapter, and the Administration has saidthere will not be one. This is a major problem for U.S. marketsthat could devastate the labor force if unaddressed.

• Ending currency manipulation would mean approximately12,000 jobs for the 8th District, which is 4.25% job growth

• Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore are all notable currencymanipulators who devalue their currency in order to gain anunfair trade advantage.

Unions have worked hard to improve jobsite safety. As we’ve found out the hard way, politicians are able to

legislate it away. Know who it is that you’re voting for!

from your friends in the 18 affiliates of the

Iron Range Building & Trades Council

Contact us - we can direct you to high quality contractors who use highly skilled, area workers.President Michael Syversrud, 1-218-741-2482 Rec. Sec. Dan Hendrickson

Financial-Secretary Doug Christy, 107 S. 15th Ave. W., Virginia, MN. 55792

whom, like Nolan, seek fulldisclosure. It never has hap-pened in FTAs.

Wise said poll after pollshows the American publicopposed to free trade.

“If corporations had to sellthem to the people and tellthem what’s in them, theywouldn’t sell,” Wise said. Hesaid former U.S. TradeRepresentative Ron Kirk,whose job it was to get FTAdeals through, said if the peo-ple knew what was in themthey wouldn’t pass.

“They require us to suspendour Constitution on three dif-ferent Articles,” Wise said.

He said supporters of FTAssay 95% of the world lives out-side the U.S. and we’ll growwith FTAs but Wise said theU.S. is 45% of the world’s con-sumer market and its whereother countries are looking tosell their products. He saidnational security is brought upas a check on China with FTAsbut the Chinese are currencymanipulators that puts things intheir favor again. And in

Germany those “outdated”manufacturing jobs pay $50 anhour in a country with a highquality of life. Wise said its notjust manufacturing lost here.

“Technology jobs are out-sourced at the same rate,including by two of Minne-sota’s largest companies, Med-Tronics and IBM,” Wise said.

Minnesota AFL-CIO Secre-tary-Treasurer Steve Huntertold Nolan its hard to talk aboutFTA and TPP because so littleis known about them. But hesaid 20 years after the NorthAmerican Free Trade Agree-ment we’ve found out it didn’tcreate the 200,000 jobs thatwere promised, and it didn’tbenefit Canada, the U.S., orMexico.

“We’ve lost one millionjobs in those 20 years,” Huntersaid. “Our trade surpluses arenow trade deficits. There are nolabor standards or environmen-tal protections, and weakenforcement. It’s been the samepattern in CAFTA, Columbia,Panama, and Korea (free tradeagreements). All increased our

trade deficit.”Tamara Jones of UFCW

Local 1189 said her union hasmany members in the manu-facturing sector that are hurt byFTAs. But she told Nolan thatshe wanted him to hear how theU.S. violates the human rightsof women and LGBT workersby making trade deals withcountries like Malaysia andBrunei that still have laws likedeath by stoning for women.

“We must do better in ourtrade agreements or we’re nobetter than the countries we’redealing with in the trade pacts,”Jones told Nolan who thankedher for bringing up a trade topicfew address.

Jones said access to healthcare and drugs will also worsenin the world because of TPPpatent monopolies for pharma-ceutical giants.

Jean Ross, President ofNational Nurses United, saidher union is also concerned

about decreased access toaffordable medication world-wide. They’re also worriedabout FTAs making food prod-ucts less safe, includingrestricting bans on pesticides,their eroding effects on publichealth laws, and how theyundermine democracy and ournational sovereignty.

Beth Tamiment told Nolanthat TPP is a threat to howwe’re able to respond to cli-mate change or to any localrule that could threaten futurecorporate profits.

In closing Nolan said if weaccept free trade agreementsand TPP we are abdicating theresponsibilities our foundersput in our Constitution.

“Congress needs to step upand say ‘no more,’” Nolansaid. “How bad do we need tobe beaten down before welearn our lesson?” He promisedto carry on the fight againstFTAs and TPP in Congress.

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Sen. David TOMASSONIRep. Tom ANZELCRep. Carly MELINRep. Jason METSA

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remember those who have been killed and injured on the job!

Columbia plan shows U.S.trade model is a failure

By AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Four years after the United States and Colombia signed the

Labor Action Plan (LAP) to address entrenched labor rights vio-lations, Colombian workers have suffered over 1,933 threats andacts of violence against unionists– including 105 assassinationsof union activists and 1,337 death threats. These chilling num-bers, provided by Colombia’s National Union School (EscuelaNacional Sindical, ENS in Spanish), do not include countlessdaily illegal firings, harassment, and other forms of retaliationagainst workers organizing unions that go unreported and unad-dressed by Colombian authorities.

The latest report issued by the ENS demonstrates that therehas been virtually no progress over the past year in compliancewith the LAP. It is evident that the campaign of intimidationagainst Colombia’s workers struggling to defend their rightscontinues unabated.

The AFL-CIO continues to stand with its Colombian brothersand sisters in demanding real action and full compliance, andsupports every effort to help Colombia move towards a sustain-able peace that includes full respect for fundamental labor rights.

As the US government negotiates broad trade agreementswith Europe and the Pacific Rim, it must look back at the LAP’scontinued failure in protecting workers’ rights in Colombia, andnot commit the same mistakes. It must ensure that these agree-ments deliver on the promises made for over twenty years aboutthe broader benefits of expanding trade. Investors and compa-nies have received these benefits. Workers in the U.S. and coun-tries that are our trading partners have not. We deserve it.

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AFSCME COUNCIL 5— President JudyWahlberg, Local 66; VP Mike Lindholt, Local221; Sec. Mary Falk, Local 4001; Treas.Nickson Nyankabaria, Local 3532; DirectorEliot Seide; Area Office, 211 West 2nd St.,Duluth, MN 55802, 722-0577

AFSCME Co. 5—LOCAL 66—Meets 1stTues. at 7:00 p.m. in the AFSCME Hall,Arrowhead Place, 211 West 2nd St. Pres. Dennis Frazier; VP Alex Livadaros;Treas. Deb Strohm, Rec. Sec. Sue Urness.Sgt@Arms Jim Gaylord–Union office, 211W. 2nd St., Duluth, MN 55802, 722-0577

AFSCME Co. 5 - LOCAL 1123—City of TwoHarbors workers. Meets 1st Wed. of eachmonth at 3:30 p.m. in City Hall, TwoHarbors. Pres. Willard Rueckert, 522-1stAve., Two Harbors 55616; Sec. Mitch Ekstrom; Treas. Paul J. Johnson

AFSCME Co. 5 - LOCAL 1934—St. Louis Co. Essential Jail Employees.Meets 3rd Wed., 3:15 at Foster’s Bar & Grill.Pres. Dan Marchetti, 726-2345, VP Glen Peterson, Sec. Nancy Mosack, Treas. Heather Ninefeldt

AFSCME Co. 5 - LOCAL 3558 - Non-profitemployees. Meets 3rd Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m..AFSCME Hall, 211 W. 2nd St. PresidentMichelle Fremling ; VP Dale Minkkinen;Sec/Treas Alison Keaupuni

AFSCME LOCAL 695 - Meets 4th Tuesdayof even numbered months at Council 5 Duluth offices and odd numbered months at Gampers in Moose Lake. President Don Anderson, 722-7728

AFSCME LOCAL 3801 - UMD Clerical &Technical employees, Room 106 Kirby Stu-dent Center. Meets 4th Th. @ 4:45 pm,Room 490 Humanities; Interim Pres/ChiefSteward Kathee Abrahamson 726-6312

AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNIONAFL-CIO Greater Northland Area Local—P.O. Box 16321, Duluth, MN 55816.Membership meetings held monthly inDuluth, quarterly on Iron Range, 218-722-3350

BRlCKLAYERS & ALLIED CRAFTWORKERS LOCAL UNION 1—Chapter 3/Duluth & Hibbing meetings arelisted in the Quarterly Update newsletter. Chairman/Field Rep. Stan Paczynski, (218)724-8374, Recording Secretary, John Talarico, Sergeant-at-Arms, Jeff Ehlen

BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL, ORNAMENTALAND REINFORCING IRON WORKERSLOCAL 512—Northern MN office/trainingcenter, 3752 Midway Road, HermantownMN 55810, (218) 724-5073, President JoeTomjanovich, B.M./F.S.-T. Charlie Roberts, B.A. Darrell Godbout, Rec. Sec. Bill Gerl

BUILDING & GENERAL LABORERS LOCAL 1091—Meets 3rd Thursdays, 7 pmDuluth Labor Temple, Wellstone Hall. President Chris Thacker, V.P. Kyle Koller, Rec. Sec. William Cox, Bus.Mgr./Fin.Sec./Treas. Dan Olson; (218) 728-5151

CARLTON COUNTY CENTRAL LABORBODY—Meets 1st Monday of month exceptSept. which meets last Monday in August.Meeting 7:00 pm 2nd floor of Labor Temple,1403 Ave C, Cloquet 55720; Pres. TamaraJones, 728-5174, VP Tim Ryan, Sec. TreasTamara Jones, Rec. Sec. Patty Harper,NEALC Delegates Jones, Steve Risacher

CARPENTERS LOCAL UNION NO. 361—Meets 2nd Tues. of the month at 6:30 p.m.at Training Center, 5238 Miller Trunk Hwy.,724-3297. Pres. Steve Risacher, VP ChrisHill, Rec. Sec. Matt Campanario, Fin. Sec.Mike Mattson; Treas. Donald Renne, Dir. ofField Reps. Chris Hill Field Reps. SteveRisacher, Jeremy Browen

CEMENT MASONS, PLASTERERS & SHOPHANDS LOCAL 633—Duluth & IronRange Area Office: Mike Syversrud, 2002London Road, Room 112, Duluth 55812;218-724-2323; Meetings to be announced

DULUTH AFL-CIO CENTRAL LABORBODY —Meets 2nd Thurs., 7:00 p.m., Well-stone Hall, 2002 London Rd., (218) 724-1413, President Dan O’Neill, Plumbers &Steamfitters 11; VP Beth McCuskey, DFT;Rec. Sec. Terri Newman, CWA 7214; Treas.Sheldon Christopherson, Operating Eng. 70;Reading Clerk Larry Sillanpa, MN NewsGuild/Typographical 37002

DULUTH BUILDING & CONSTRUCTIONTRADES COUNCIL—Meets 3rd Tues, 3pmFreeman Hall, Labor Temple. Pres. CraigOlson, Painters & Allied Trades 106, 724-6466; VP Darrell Godbout, Ironworkers 512;Treas. Jeff Daveau, Plumbers/‘Fitters 11;Rec. Sec. Dan Olson, Laborers 1091

DULUTH MAILERS UNION LOCAL ML-62Meets 3rd Monday, Duluth Labor Temple,2002 London Rd., Pres. Oscar Steinhilb:Sec. Keith Delfosse, 218-628-3017

IBEW LOCAL 31 (UTILITY WORKERS)—Rm.105, Duluth Labor Temple, 728-4248. Pres Dale Torma; VP Paul Makowski; Rec Sec Brian Campbell; Treas Dan Leslie;Bus Mgr/Fin Sec Cheri Stewart, Ass’t Bus Mgr Andy Chaffee

Monthly Meetings (Starting May 1 allmeetings will start at 6 pm except Superior):

1st Wednesday of each month-Duluth Labor Temple, Hall A, 6:00 p.m.;

2nd Tuesday of each month-Gilbert VFW, 7:15 p.m.;

2nd Wednesday of each month- Grand Rapids Blandin Workers Hall, 6:30 p.m.;

3rd Wednesday of each month- All 7 p.m.Jan- Brainerd; Feb- Park Rapids; March- Nisswa; April- Little Falls; May- Crosby/ Ironton; June- Brainerd; July- Park Rapids; Aug- Little Falls; Sept- Aitkin; Oct- Brainerd; Nov- Nisswa; Dec- Wadena

4th Tuesday of each month- Superior- Shamrock Pizza- 5:30 p.m.

Special Area Meetings~3rd Mondays,Jan. & July Schroeder Town Hall- 6 p.m.

LocationsDuluth-Labor Temple-2002 London Rd.Aitkin-40 Club, 950-2nd St. NWBrainerd-American Legion, 708 Front St.Crosby/Ironton-Ironton American LegionGilbert-Gilbert VFW, 224 N. BroadwayGrand Rapids-Blandin Papermill Workers

Hall, 1005 NW 4th St.Little Falls-American Legion, 108 1st St NENisswa-Tasty Pizza North, Hwy 371S,

Pequot Lakes Park Rapids-American Legion, 900 E. 1stSchroeder-Town Hall, 124 Cramer Rd.Superior-Shamrock Pizza, 5825 Tower AveWadena-VFW, 213-1st St. SE

IBEW LOCAL 242 (CONST., R.T.V., MFG.,MAINT.)—Rm.111, Labor Temple, 728-6895.Pres. Darik Carlson; Rec. Sec. Dave Sol-berg; Treas. Gary Erickson; Bus Mgr./Fin.Sec. Donald J. Smith. Meeting 6 pm, 4thWed. every month at Duluth Labor Temple. Unit meetings - Brainerd, American Legion, 7:30 p.m., 1st Wed. each month

INTL. BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICALWORKERS, LOCAL 294 - Meets 4th Thurs-day, 7:30 p.m., Local 294 Building located at503 E. 16th St., Hibbing, MN. BusinessManager Dan Hendrickson, (218) 263-6895, Bemidji Unit, meets 3rd Thursdays of themonth at 7 p.m. in Carpenters Hall

INTL. BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICALWORKERS, LOCAL 366—(Electrical, Sig-nal & Communication Workers of C/N) -Meets 3rd Thursdays, Proctor Moose Club.President/Local Chair Greg Arras, 1519 Airport Rd., Cloquet, MN 55720; VP Zach Swanstrom; Rec. Sec. Curt Fernandez; Treas. Kurt Shaw

INTL. ASSOCIATION OF HEAT & FROST INSULATORS & ALLIED WORKERS LOCAL NO. 49—Meets 2nd Fridays, 7 p.m.Duluth Labor Temple. Business ManagerDave Cartwright, 2002 London Rd., Room210, Duluth 55812, 724-3223; Pres Dennis Howard; VP Tom Enger; Fin Sec/Treas. Wayne Twight

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTERCARRIERS, BRANCH 114 MERGED—Meets 2nd Mondays, 7 p.m., Radisson,Pres. Scott Dulas, 727-4327 (office), P.O.Box 16583, Duluth 55816; VP Kevin Wester-lund; Recording Secretary Sheila Fawcett;Financial Secretary Shawn Hansen; Treasurer Mike Sylvester

NATIONAL CONF. FIREMEN & OILERSSEIU 956—Meets 4th Saturdays, 9 a.m. atDenfeld High School. Pres. Sam Michelizzi,628-2689; Treas. Dennis McDonald, 7208Ogden Ave., Superior, WI 54880, 628-4863;Sec. Steve Lundberg, 8304 Grand Ave, Duluth 55807, 624-0915NORTH EAST AREA LABOR COUNCIL,AFL-CIO-President Alan Netland, Field Coordinators Jason Metsa, 218-290-1527, jason@nealc.org, Zach Sias, 218-409-9246,zach@nealc.org, 2002 London Road, Room99, Duluth, MN 55812

NORTHERN WISCONSIN BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL—Meets the 3rd Wednesdays, 11am, SuperiorLibrary. President Norm Voorhees, (218)724-5073, 2002 London Rd., Room 117,Duluth, MN 55812; VP Jeff Daveau, Sec.-Treas. Chris Hill (218) 724-3297

OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 49 —Meets 2nd Tues. of month at 7:30 p.m., Hall B, Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 LondonRd., Bus. Rep. Brent Pykkonen, 724-3840,Room. 116, Duluth Labor Temple. All members attend each meeting

OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 70—2722 County Road D East, White BearLake, MN 55110, 651-646-4566. Bus. Mgr.Dave Monsour. Meets 2nd Tues.,5 p.m., Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Rd.

PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES LOCAL106 Meets 1st Wed., 6:00 p.m., Duluth Labor Temple. President Lee Carlson; VPGordon Smith; Rec. Sec. Mikael Sundin;Fin. Sec. Tim Rooney; Treas. Jack CarlsonBus. Rep. Craig Olson, Duluth Labor Temple, Room 106, 2002 London Rd. Duluth, MN 55812, 724-6466

PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 11, U.A.— Meets 1st Thursdays atunion hall, 4402 Airpark Blvd. (218) 727-2199; President Scott Randall; VP ClaytonChilds; Rec. Sec. Butch Liebaert; Bus. Mgr./Fin. Sec. Jeff Daveau, Ass’t Bus. Mgr. Dave Carlson

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 10—Bus. Mgr. Jim Bowman, 1681 E. Cope Ave.,St Paul, MN 55109, 1-800-396-2903. Duluth-Superior-lron Range-Bemidji area.Bus. Rep. Doug Christy, 6279 Industrial Rd,Saginaw, MN 55779, 218-724-6873Duluth-Superior area meets 2nd Monday,5:00 p.m. Sheet Metal Training Center, 6279Industrial Road, Saginaw, MN 55779Iron Range meets 2nd Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.Hibbing Park Hotel, 1402 East Howard St.Hibbing, MN 55746. Bemidji area meets 3rd Thursday Jan.,April, July & Oct., 6:00 pm, Carpenters Hall,609 2nd St. South, Bemidji, MN 56601

SUPERIOR FEDERATION OF LABOR —Meets 1st Weds, 6:30 p.m., Public Library,Pres. Janice Terry, 715-394-2896, Treas.Marlene Case, 715-399-8152, Rec. Sec.Lee Sandok-Baker, 715-260-8231, WarrenBender, Corresponding Sec., 715-394-7453,PO Box 1246, Superior, WI 54880

UNITED AUTO WORKERS LOCAL 241 —Meets Ist Tues. of the month, 5:30 p.m.,Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Rd.,Pres. Del Soiney, 591-5184; Fin. Officer DanHey, 104 Quince St., Duluth, MN 55811

UNITED FOOD & COMMERCIAL WORKERS LOCAL 1189—President DonSeaquist; Sec. Treas. Jennifer ChristensenSt. Paul Office: 266 Hardman Ave. N., SouthSt. Paul, MN 55075, 612-281-8014Duluth Office: Labor Temple, 2002 LondonRd., Rm. 211, Duluth 55812. 218-728-5174Retirees' Club meets 2nd Monday, 1:30p.m., Duluth Labor Temple, Wellstone Hall

UNITED STEELWORKERS LOCAL 1028 -Meets 2nd Tues., Room 212, 2002 LondonRd., Duluth 55812, 728-9534. Pres. JaysonGrozdanich, VP Mike Connolly, Treas. LeePopovich, 624-2868, Fin. Sec. Mike Gerard,Rec. Sec. Drew Bloomquist

UNITED STEELWORKERS LOCAL 9460-Meets 3rd Tuesday each month, 5:00 pm,Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Rd,Suite 202, Duluth, MN 55812, (218) 724-5223. Pres. Stacy Spexet, VP Margaret Olsgard, Treas. Lindajean Thompson, Fin. Sec. Sue Pierce, Rec. Sec. Heidi Puhl

WORKERS UNITED LOCAL 99—Ex Boardmeetings 2nd Mon. of month: 1:30 p.m. inMar., June, Oct., & Dec., 9:30 a.m. all others Quarterly membership meetings held 2ndMon. Mar., June, Oct., & Dec. at 2:30 p.m.Office, 350 Garfield Ave., Suite 2, Duluth,MN 55802; Acting President Peggy Vanderscheuren, 728-6861

T r a d e U n i o n D i r e c t o r y “ T h e w o r l d i s r u n b y t h o s e w h o s h o w u p ! ”

!

Chicago voters push for paid sick leaveCHICAGO (PAI)—Little-

noticed due to the contestedFeb. 24 mayoral primary,Chicago voters overwhelming-ly told their city council toenact paid sick leave, theNational Partnership forWomen and Families reports.

The mayoral results, whichfeatured a runoff between con-troversial incumbent MayorRahm Emanuel and challengerChuy Garcia, overshadowedthe referendum. On April 7Emanuel, a former Chief ofStaff for President Obama, beatGarcia with 56% of the vote.

It says a lot about some employers

when unions can only get a safety

committee through the collective

bargaining process. Their grieving

comes because of more paperwork and

hearings. Ours is for workers killed,

injured, or made sick by their jobs.

USW Local 1028Affiliated with:

ME Electmetal Lerch Bros. (Allouez)

Duluth Steel Fabricators North American Salt

Township of Duluth (Police)

Bricklayers and Allied

Craftworkers Local Union

#1, Minnesota/North Dakota

Bricklayers and AlliedCraftworkers Local 1Minnesota/North Dakota

Bricklayers and AlliedCraftworkers Local 1

Minnesota/North Dakota2002 London Road • 724-8374

In MemoriumOf our departed members, who havedied as a result of work-related accidents, injuries or illnesses.

. . . In Their Honor This Workers’ Memorial Day

Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 11

IN MEMORY...

Several unions whomEmanuel trashed in his first 4-year term, including theChicago Federation ofTeachers and the AmalgamatedTransit Union, which repre-sents the city’s bus and subwayworkers, strongly campaigningfor Garcia.

National PartnershipPresident Debra Ness notedpassage of paid sick leavewould aid more than 460,000Chicago workers. “The CityCouncil and mayor should nowact quickly to honor the will ofthe people by approving a

measure that will guarantee allworkers in the city the right toearn paid sick days,” sheadded.

“By approving a citywidestandard, Chicago would jointhe 20 other jurisdictions thathave or will soon have paidsick days laws in place.Workers, businesses and law-makers across the country sup-port the common-sense policy.And all the research and evi-dence from existing laws andemployer policies shows paidsick days are good for families,businesses and economies.”

Moving Property or Concrete–

Hard work gets ’er done

PAT TRUMAN20 years Laborers #1091

15 years a Realtor®

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Congratulations to these Twin Ports area Union Contractors ontheir 2014 Minnesota LECET Safety Driven Contractor Awards:A.G. O'Brien Plumbing & HeatingJ.R. Jensen ConstructionKraus Anderson ConstructionLakehead ConstructorsMavo SystemsOscar J. Boldt ConstructionVeit & Company Inc.

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Judge recommends granting certification of need for Sandpiper pipelineFollowing many long public

hearings, including in Duluth,Administrative Law Judge EricL. Lipman has recommendedthat a certificate of need begranted to build the Sandpiperoil pipeline from North Dakotato Superior, Wisconsin. Hisreport affirms that the project isneeded to transport growingvolumes of Bakken oil andwould benefit Minnesota bycreating jobs, reducing railcongestion, and ensuring reli-

able supplies of crude oil.“This is great news for the

project and working people inMinnesota,” said Dan Olson,International Representativefor the Laborers’ InternationalUnion of North America.“Expansion of pipelines willprotect our state’s infrastruc-ture by reducing the number oftrains and trucks on our railsand roads. Supporting pipelineuse is just one way our mem-bership is committed to being

good stewards of Minnesotaresources.”

The $2.5 billion pipeline,which would run throughnorthern Minnesota and deliverNorth Dakota oil to terminalsin Clearbrook, MN andSuperior, WI, could create anestimated 3,000 well-payingjobs while helping to keep fuelprices down and lessening theeconomic and environmentalrisks of shipping oil throughthe state by train.

“The case is clear: apipeline is the best option forthe delivery of Bakken oil,”said Kevin Pranis, MinnesotaLaborers Organizing Director.“We welcome the report andwe look forward to workingwith Enbridge and the PublicUtilities Commission to ensurethat we get the safe, reliablepipeline and good constructionjobs Minnesotans deserve.”

Sandpiper now goes beforethe Minnesota Public UtilitiesCommission, which has theauthority to grant a Certificateof Need and advance the proj-ect to the routing process.

“This matter is not settled.

The Public Utilities Commis-sion will have the final say, butthis report, which is based onall the evidence on the record,finds a clear need and minimalrisk to the environment,” saidOlson. “We believe stronglythat this is the right thing to do.When the final approval isgiven we will be ready.”

The conversation on theissue continued Monday afterLipman’s ruling when expertson both sides of the issue con-ducted another forum inMonticello, MN to help informcitizens and answer questions.

“It is important that the pub-lic get the facts,” said Pranis.

O N W O R K E R SO N W O R K E R SM E M O R I A L D A Y !M E M O R I A L D A Y !

We all know someone devastated, evenkilled, by a work accident. That’s whyunions are the driving force to make

workplaces safer. Make your workplacesafer by SPEAKING OUT!

Nor th East Area Labor CouncilServing Cook, Lake, Koochiching, Itasca, St. Louis, Carlton, and Pine countiesWe appreciate the work of our affiliates in the Koochiching

(President Joe Schwartz), Iron Range (President TomCvar), Carlton County (President Tamara Jones), and

Duluth (President Dan O’Neill) Labor Assemblies.

NEALC FIELD COORDINATORSJASON METSA – Eveleth, MN 218-290-1527 jason@nealc.org

ZACH SIAS – Duluth, MN 218-409-9246 zach@nealc.org

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labor & industryminnesota department of

laborminneso

ytrryndus & ilabortment ofa departtaminneso

y

Teamsters: Trains derail because carriers won’t spend to maintain tracks(PAI)—The Teamsters Bro-

therhood of Maintenance ofWay Employees Division, rep-resenting 35,000 railroad trackmaintenance workers, contendsthat increasing train derail-ments occur because U.S. rail-roads refuse to spend money tomaintain railroad tracks.

Identifying risks to your safety andhealth is the first step in reducing thelarge number of avoidable workplace

deaths and injuries that occur.

WORKSMART,

STAYSAFE,

MAKE ITHOME!

Iron Range/Northern Minnesota

BMWED President Fred-die Simpson says freight trainsderailed 1,220 times last year,causing at least $200 million indamage to tracks and rail bedsalone. Other damage is worseas exploding oil cars kill andhurt people, befoul the environ-ment, and cause evacuations.

Lousy track conditionscaused 39% of all derailments,he adds. The percentage waseven higher (47% of 329 acci-dents) on main lines. Simpsonsaid U.S. railroads transport400,000 tank-car loads of oilyearly. Main line tracks runthrough thousands of cities,

towns, and communities.“Track-caused derailments --including those involving high-ly volatile crude oil -- continueto be a threat to the nation. Wecan significantly improve rail-road safety by improving thequality of the track. The tech-nology, the skilled workers,and the higher track standards

already exist; this is not rocketscience...it requires additionaltrack maintenance to stayahead of the rate of track degra-dation...companies have beenamassing record profits foryears and we want them to con-tinue to be exceptionally prof-itable. Safety and profitabilitygo hand-in-hand.”

In honor of all those who

our lives better

AFSCME Council 5

LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015 PAGE 19

Construction workers die from work-related illnesses and injury 8 to 12 years earlier than white-collar workers.

We’re working to change that as we...F i g h t F o r T h e L i v i n g !

Boilermakers Lodge 107~(262) 754-3167Bricklayers Local 2~(715) 579-9602 Carpenters Local 361~(218) 724-3297Cement Masons, Plasterers & Shophands Local 633~(218) 724-2323Electrical Workers Local 14~

(715) 878-4068Electrical Workers Local 242~

(218) 728-6895Elevator Constructors Local 9~

(651) 287-0817Insulators Local 49~(218) 724-3223Iron Workers Local 512~(218) 724-5073

Laborers Local 1091~(218) 728-5151Millwrights & Machinery Erectors

Local 1348~ (218) 741-6314Operating Engineers Local 139~

(715) 838-0139 Painters & Allied Trades Local 106~

(218) 724-6466Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 11~

(218) 727-2199Roofers, Waterproofers Local 96~

(218) 644-1096Sheet Metal Workers Local 10~

(218) 724-6873Teamsters Local 346~(218) 628-1034

Northern Wisconsin Building & Construction Trades Council

President Norm Voorhees, Ironworkers Local 512, (218) 724-5073 Vice President Jeff Daveau Secretary-Treasurer Chris Hill

NWBCTC

The Next Chapter. Together.

Duluth DFLConvention May 31

Jennifer SchultzRepresentative, MN House 7A

Prepared/paid for by Jennifer Schultz Volunteer Committee, PO Box 3218, Duluth, MN 55803

Making sure our workplaces aresafe and healthy is a priority.

We have more work to do.

Workers Memorial Day...

Corporate group working to gut states’ workers’ compensation systemsBy Kenneth QuinnellAFL-CIO BlogNearly two dozen major

corporations have joinedtogether in recent years in aneffort to gut workers’ compen-sation laws in the states.

Walmart, Lowe’s, Macy’s,Kohl’s, Sysco Food Servicesand others formed the Asso-ciation for Responsible Alter-natives to Workers’ Compen-sation (ARAWC) in 2013, andthe organization already hashad success in Tennessee.

Mother Jones takes a look atARAWC’s methods in a storywritten by Molly Redden:

Now, ARAWC wants to takethe Texas and Oklahoma modelnationwide. Tennessee, whereLowe’s, Walmart and Kohl’seach have about 20 locations,is the only state where thegroup has pushed legislation sofar. But ARAWC is already con-sidering its next targets.

“ARAWC hopes to seesome neighboring states takeup legislation this year and

we’re ready to assist those leg-islatures as well,” [Richard]Evans, the group’s executivedirector, writes in an email.

Conservative Southernstates where ARAWC’s corpo-rate funders have major opera-tions—including Florida,Georgia and Alabama—are onthe group’s short list. AndARAWC already has hired lob-byists in North and South Car-olina. The group has writtenmodel legislation, but ARAWCintends to work closely withlawmakers to adapt its modelfor individual states.

When ARAWC targets astate, it moves aggressively. InTennessee, the group has spentmore than $50,000 deployinglobbyists to push its legislation.Evans says that state Sen. MarkGreen, who introduced the opt-out bill, was already workingon the legislation before

ARAWC started pushing for it.But a February blog post writ-ten by an executive atSedgwick, an insurance com-pany that helped foundARAWC, suggests the groupplayed a more active role. Inthe post, the executive boaststhat ARAWC “secured a highlyrespected bill sponsor”—pre-sumably Green—to introducethe bill, which the group“assisted in drafting.”...

Green’s proposal, whichsupporters are calling theTennessee Option, bears manyof the hallmarks of the Texasand Oklahoma system: Itallows businesses to placestrict spending caps on eachinjured worker and to pick andchoose which medical expens-es to cover.

“We took the best of bothand put it together to make itwork for Tennessee business-

es,” Green told an insurancetrade magazine.

The bill as introduced doesnot require employers to payfor artificial limbs, hearingaids, home care, funeralexpenses or disability modifi-cations to a home or a car forinjured workers. All of thesebenefits, notes Gary Moore,president of the TennesseeAFL-CIO Labor Council, aremandated under the state’s cur-rent workers’ comp system.

“This piece of legislation isdesigned as a cost-savingmeasure for the employer,”Moore says. “Anywhere theysave a dollar, it costs theemployees a dollar. It’s just ashift in costs.”

You can read the entire storyat http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/arawc-walmart-campaign-against-workers-compensation

“I was preparing for atrial recently. The issueswere complex and technical.

I practiced my opening statement by reading it to anassociate in our firm. After hearing my presentation, shesuggested I take a different approach. She thought my lineof argument was difficult to follow.

As a result, I changed my tactics and found an animatorwho put together a ten minute video, whichexplained simply and convincingly the pointsthat I needed to convey.

Our team approach led to the successfulresolution of the case.”

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I r o nW o r k e r sLocal 512

Hermantown, MN.

To our Brothers of Iron Workers Local 512,whose deaths occurred while on the job

IN MEMORIAM.. .

Winston Churchill, White Pine, MI Leo Podvin, U.S.Steel, Duluth WorksOrlen Rehbein, Ironwood, MIHank Shields, White Pine, MI Leroy LeClaire, Cooley (MN) TaconiteRon Wiski, Silver Bay, MNBob Weideman, Blatnik Bridge, DuluthReino Hendrickson, Eveleth TaconiteGuy Axtell, Grand Rapids, MN, BlandinKenneth Maki, Hibbing, MNJoe Parendo, Hibbing, MNLen Pistilli, Mt. Iron, MNJohn Puttonen, Hoyt Lakes, MNJohnny Carlson, Soo LocksCharles Sarasin, Quinnisec, MIJohn Casper, Aurora, MNDarryl Roe, Duluth, MNJohn Zager, Duluth, MNRoy Salo, Grand Rapids, MNRobin Sutter, Minneapolis, MNArne Fliginger, Minneapolis, MNMike Rathjen, Two Harbors, MNRobert Wilkens, St. Louis Park, MN