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From the desk Governor Quinn: the right choice for Organized Labor
of Publisher
Marty Helfers
by Chris M. Stevens
SPRINGFIELD—Workers wake hungry.
Labor leader Walter Reuther once linked
the ballot box and the bread box. Illinois
voters will cast ballots November 4, for
governor. The successful candidate will
The Silly Season is back amongst us, help set the course for state government.
The stark difference between the candidates
Brothers and Sisters!
The election, thankfully, is just a couple offers voters a clear choice. Governor Pat
weeks away. This is the second election 4XLQQKDVDYHUL¿DEOHUHFRUGDWVXSSRUWLQJD
cycle in which The Labor Paper has pub- government of the many, while his opponent
lished an election guide edition I believe you Bruce Rauner believes in a government of
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just after the economic collapse which threw
mirrors of the
the country into recession. He had the job of
talking heads
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To achieve positive economic results
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chief executive. Thankfully, under Governor
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Quinn’s leadership the backlog of unpaid
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bills the state owes declined by over half
Chris Stevens
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and our editor,
billion.
Sharon WilThe reduction in state debt has pushed
liams, continue
to write the award winning articles that edu- the Illinois economy in a positive direction.
cate and inform our readers involving issues Scorecard. In July, 2014, the Philadelphia
which are important to working people ev- branch of the Federal Reserve issued a
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ery day.
In this edition of The Labor Paper, we percent, as having the highest economic
will revisit articles previously printed and growth within the Midwest
Note. The rate for neighboring states:
additional pieces on the recent activities of
the various campaigns. Please read the paper Michigan (recently passed a right-tofront to back and then pass it on to some- ZRUN IRU OHVV ODZ SHUFHQW ,QGLDQD
one else who would like the straight talk (also recently passed a R-T-W (for less)
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the state. I will offer several thoughts on the %URZQEDFN¶V VHYHUH WD[ FXWV SHUFHQW
federal, state and local races I see as very 0LVVRXUL SHUFHQW ,RZD SHUFHQW
and Wisconsin, 1.36 percent.
important to labor and Illinois.
Organized labor. Speaking at a brunch
First and perhaps foremost among state
this past August hosted by local Democrats,
races is the race for Governor of Illinois.
Pat Quinn is undoubtedly the best choice Governor Quinn labeled organized labor,
for Illinois. Governor Quinn came into of- “The meal ticket to the middle class.” The
¿FHDWRQHRIWKHPRVWGLI¿FXOWWLPHVLQ,O- Governor continued, “If we are going to have
a middle class in this state and this country,
linois history.
The previous governor had been arrested, we’ve got to make sure people get a fair
WKHVWDWH¿QDQFHVZHUHLQWRWDOVKDPEOHVDQG shake. People have a right to form unions, to
trust in government was near the lowest in bargain for their wages and work conditions.
That’s as American as apple pie. That’s good
state history.
Vendors and state contractors were wait- for America,” adding, “over in Indiana and
ing up to 14 months for their bills to be paid. Michigan they passed right to work for less.
And, the nation was in the middle of eco- We’re not for that in Illinois.”
Right-to-Work (for less) provides no rights
nomic downturn only rivaled by the Great
Depression of the 30s in job and market and no work. What the legislation does is
losses. Let alone a pension underfunding destroy area standard wages, eliminate
problem that threatened not only the state RU UHGXFH EHQH¿WV DQG D VWXG\ RI WKH WHQ
poorest states shows seven of them operate
but the pensioners as well.
Governor Quinn made the tough, many under RTW. Rauner wants to bring that
times unpopular decisions that put Illinois destruction of the middle class to Illinois.
Writing a guest editorial for Gatehouse
on the path to recovery.
Media Rauner stated, “One creative solution
Helfers
is available to us that has not been tried
Continued on page 20
Governor Pat Quinn came to Peoria after the flooding in 2013 to offer assistance. Pictured left to right: Keith Gleason, Teamsters Local 627; Clint Drury, WCIBCTC; Governor Quinn; Danny Hollenback, Operating Engineers Local 649; and Tom Broadway,
Laborers Local 165.
elsewhere… authorize local communities to contract with the unions of the state.”
For the voters who wonder how Rauner
decide for themselves whether to embrace
right-to-work. Why not empower Sangamon would act as governor towards his public
&RXQW\ RU (I¿QJKDP &RXQW\ RU DQ\ RI enemy, organized labor, a short look at how
our other local governments, to decide for he handled a former employee/business
speaks volumes. The hedge fund GTCR,
themselves.”
Director of Communications for the which included Rauner as a partner, had
Illinois Federation of Teachers, Aviva Bowen recruited Christine Kirk from Arthur
commented on Rauner’s stance, “He doesn’t Andersen to serve as CEO of a startup
understand the middle class... that to me is company, LeapSource. When the company
the most compelling thing to unions and the failed to meet expectations, the break up
became contentious. Board member Rauner
people we represent.”
Rauner, has called unions “corrupt” and then took a hard-line stance. Another member
on more than one occasion expressed his RI WKH %RDUG FRQ¿UPHG WKDW GXULQJ WKH
personal desire to challenge what he calls contentious process Rauner had threatened
“Big union bosses.” During an appearance Kirk and allegedly had told her, “If you go
on the Joe Walsh radio program Rauner legal on us, we’ll hurt you and your family.”
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had declared, “I will take on the teachers’
union, AFSCME and SEIU. They’ve got a GTCR and its tactics. During a deposition,
stranglehold on the state. Within twenty-four Rauner stated, “… laying people off… that’s
hours of my election I will have taken on
Quinn
the government union bosses, transformed
Continued on page 17
the spending and changed the fundamental
Governor Pat Quinn discusses labor issues with Darren Smith, business manager of
Operating Engineers Local 649.
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October 16, 2014
The Labor Paper
News Analysis: Election 2014, fighting the Right for our Rights
by Bill Knight
This election, the economy is the mostpressing issue for most Americans, but
decades of attacks on labor, the declining
value of wages compared to the cost of living,
and the worst “do-nothing” Congress in
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the right to vote to citizens it doesn’t like,”
said Leo Gerard, President of the United
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union made you a Democrat,” says Edward
McClelland, author of Nothin’ But Blue
Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes
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The Labor Paper October 16, 2014 3
Allen Mayer seeks re-election to Peoria County Board District 6
PEORIA, Ill.--Allen Mayer is running
for re-election to the Peoria County Board in
District 6 in the heart of the City of Peoria.
And, he needs your help.
Mayer has a solid record of working for
working families on the County Board. Peoria
County built the Riverfront Museum and the
Heddington Oaks nursing home using 100
percent union labor under the terms of Project
Labor Agreements. He has supported agreements with Peoria County’s union workforce
that are fair to both county employees and to
local taxpayers.
Mayer helped pass a Responsible Bidder
ordinance for Peoria County – one of the
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worked with the County Auditor to ensure that
Prevailing Wage and Responsible Bidder requirements are enforced on all county-funded
projects. In fact, because of Peoria County’s
work in these areas, the County Board earned
the 2012 local government award from the
Illinois Prevailing Wage Council.
“We’ve known Allen for some time,” said
Bob Markham, retired business manager for
Operating Engineers Local 649, “He’s the
best candidate for working men and women.
He understands labor issues and will do a
great job.”
In his current and past positions in state
government, Mayer participates in the joint
meetings of the Illinois Prevailing Wage
Council and the Illinois Building Trades
Council. He helps local labor organizations
track down state funding for various projects
around Illinois, and work with the Illinois
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they are legally entitled.
Mayer’s boss, former Illinois Comptroller
Dan Hynes told The LABOR Paper, “if he
wanted to, Allen could be pursuing any number of opportunities, but he’s chosen public
service. I know Allen will be a strong advocate
for working families.”
The Journal Star editorial board once
said of Mayer: “he knows enough about local
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Peoria County has the lowest board-approved
property tax rate in over a decade. The County’s bond rating has actually improved twice
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economic climate since the Great Depression.
And, our external audits reveal no material
weaknesses – something that less than 5 percent of local governments achieve.
Earlier this year the County Board passed
an amendment sponsored by Mayer to freeze
the salaries of Board Members. Last year the
Board voted to end subsidized participation
in the public pension and health plans by
Board Members. In both cases, Mayer felt it
simply wasn’t fair to ask county employees
to do more with less without the Board itself
leading by example.
There is more at stake in this election
than one County Board seat. The Democratic
majority on the Peoria County Board is only
10-8. So, all the things this Board has done to
help working families could be undone with
the loss of only one or two seats.
Because Mayer is effective on the Board,
the Republican establishment has launched
an all-out assault on him. They have raised
tens of thousands of dollars for his Republican opponent, Zach Oyler. Oyler doesn’t tell
people he is the President of the Peoria Area
Young Republicans and an elected Republican precinct committeeman. He doesn’t tell
people that he has personally donated over
$2,000 to local Republicans in the last two
years. And, he doesn’t mention that he was
an unsuccessful candidate for City Council
in East Peoria in 2011 – just before he moved
to Peoria County.
Oyler and Mayer differ fundamentally on
several issues. But, one issue crystalizes the
difference.
Mayer is a strong supporter of Peoria
County’s nursing home – both the old BelWood and the new Heddington Oaks facilities.
He believes that we, as a society, have a duty
to help take care of seniors who can no longer
take care of themselves. Peoria County has
owned and operated a nursing home for over
150 years. In 2003 the voters of Peoria County
overwhelmingly approved a referendum to
raise their taxes to pay for the county nursing
home – by a better than two to one margin.
Right now Heddington Oaks employs around
200 people, most of whom are represented by
IBEW Local 51.
Republican Zach Oyler, on the other hand,
wants to privatize the county’s Heddington
Oaks nursing home. He believes that a private
company should come in and try to make
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Anyone who has heard about what happened
when Bruce Rauner made his money off of
nursing homes should understand why this
is a bad idea.
There is a lot at stake in this election for
County Board Member from District 6.
Mike Everett, past President of the West
Central Illinois Building and Construction
Trades Council, said, “All Peoria County
citizens in District 6 need to actively support
the re-election of Allen Mayer. We have several great County Board members, but Allen
stands out as a leader and no one out works
Allen Mayer.”
Mayer says he is proud of his support for
and from working families in the Peoria area.
He is asking for the votes of every working
man and woman in his central Peoria district.
With your help, he will be victorious and he’ll
be able to carry on the work of representing
the people of central Peoria.
4
October 16, 2014
The Labor Paper
Governor Pat Quinn: the job creator for Illinois
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Observers: Galesburg School Dist.
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The Labor Paper
Knight Shift
Bill Knight
Organizing can achieve results, and
collective strength sometimes overcomes rich
and powerful interests.
For example, days after labor unions and
progressive groups,
led by the Teachers,
cited the American
Legislative
Exchange Council’s
secretive, extremist
opposition to Internet
neutrality, clean
energy and labor
rights, and wrote
Google executives
to ask them dump its
membership in ALEC, Google quit the group
backed by the Koch brothers and harshly
criticized its activities.
Co-signers of the letter included the
Communications Workers, the Teamsters,
the Steelworkers, AFSCME, Good Jobs
First, the Alliance for Retired Americans,
the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees, the
United Food and Commercial Workers, and
Working America.
In a September 22 interview on National
Public Radio’s “Diane Rehm Show,” Google
chairman Eric Schmidt said his company
was dropping its ALEC membership over the
group’s environmental policies.
“[Google] has a very strong view that
we should make decisions in politics based
on facts,” Schmidt said. “What a shock!
And the facts of climate change are not in
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Brothers and Sisters of IBEW Local 34:
The founding father of the Labor MovePHQWDQGWKH¿UVWSUHVLGHQWRIWKH$PHULFDQ
Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, said
“reward your
friends
and
punish your enemies”.
Brothers
and Sisters on
November 4,
we must elect
our friends and
send our enemies packing.
We must exercise our rights
at the ballot
box.
If you have been reading The Labor Paper, you know the facts. You know the statistics. You know that if we, organized labor,
turn out and vote in this election, we win.
It is that simple. 1.5 million Voters, the vast
majority of them Democrat, failed to vote in
the last non-presidential election four years
ago. That is what happened to Wisconsin
The
question. The people who oppose it are really
hurting our children and our grandchildren
and making the world a much worse place.
They’re just literally lying.”
ALEC is notorious for its Radical Right
agenda, including a wide range of antiworker laws: Destruction of unions and
collective bargaining rights, cuts in workers’
compensation and more. ALEC also was
tied to the “Stand Your Ground” law passed
by the GOP-run Florida legislature. That let
a neighborhood watch “volunteer” in 2012
fatally shoot unarmed African-American
teen Trayvon Martin. The shooting sparked
nationwide protest and was cited by dozens
of companies who left ALEC.
The Alexandria, Va.-based ALEC
maintains a library of “model” state legislation
and connects businesses with a network of
lawmakers, offering corporate members a
voice in policymaking. But its extremistFRQVHUYDWLYH VRFLDO DQG ¿VFDO SROLFLHV KDYH
caused labor unions, civic organizations,
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work together to pressure corporations – who
pay at least $7,000 to $25,000 for ALEC
membership – to dump the organization over
such controversial activities.
Google’s departure came after Microsoft
left ALEC in July and in turn was followed
by other tech companies, including Facebook,
YELP, Yahoo, Uber and Lyft.
“This is not just a victory for us, but for the
millions of Americans whose lives are made
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and Michigan. Union households in those
two states stayed home and didn’t vote.
In fact, only 40 percent of card carrying
Union members voted in that election and
look what happened. Anti-union Governors
were elected, immediate Right to Work (for
less) legislation passed, and collective bargaining rights were eliminated for public
workers. Is this what we want in Illinois?
The decline of the middle class can be directly linked to the decline in Unions. President Reagan promised a trickle-down effect
when he cut corporate tax rates and tax rates
for the richest Americans. The theory was
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the prosperity would trickle down to the people who perform the work.
Google the “decline of the middle class”
and look at the charts. The arrow points
straight down starting in 1970 and continues to fall. Look at the arrow for CEO pay
and the income inequality of the top 5 percent. The arrow points straight up. The top
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anti-education and anti-worker agenda,” said
MoveOn.org member Marisol Garcia from
Phoenix, Ariz., who’s been campaigning to
get Google to quit ALEC and its board.
“We’ve shone a light on ALEC’s greed
and power grabs. That’s why more than 90
corporations and 400 state legislators across
the country have pulled their support from
ALEC in just the past few years.”
Elsewhere, the American Sustainable
Business Council, which says it represents
more than 200,000 businesses in the United
States, issued a statement praising companies
who have canceled their ALEC memberships
“over ALEC’s obstruction of America’s
transition to a renewable energy economy.
These announcements mark a continuation
of an awakening that started when Apple and
PG&E parted ways with the U.S. Chamber
over the Chamber’s climate position,”
according to David Levine, co-founder and
CEO of the business group.
The impact on ALEC as a result of
the desertion of large corporations could
weaken it as an entity that sponsors and
passes widespread destructive legislation at
almost every level of government, and could
snowball to encourage other responsible
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Indeed, Walden Asset Management,
which manages $3 billion in investor money,
has asked dozens of companies – including
Comcast, eBay, Exxon-Mobil and UPS – to
reassess their involvement with ALEC and
similar organizations, according to Senior
Vice President Tim Smith. Walden’s request
is part of a growing push to force companies
to reconsider their political spending and
lobbying, he said.
Some corporations justify their ALEC
memberships by claiming better access to
politicians, but Walden views membership
negatively, especially when it comes to
renewable energy.
“We think that the company’s reputation
is hurt by the relationship,” Smith said. “We
think that they’re supporting a very, very
partisan political agenda and it is actually an
unwise use of shareholder money.”
The labor letter echoed the investor group’s
criticism.
“The public knows that the ALEC
operation – which brings state legislators
and corporate lobbyists behind closed doors
to discuss proposed legislation and share
lavish dinners – threatens our democracy,”
the unions said.
“Over the past two years, hundreds of
thousands of Americans have signed petitions
in order to ask that you take this step because
of the role ALEC has played in subverting our
democratic process,” especially in funding
and funneling corporate cash – without
disclosure of sources – to politicians, said
the letter to Google, which called ALEC a
“dating service” for politicians and corporate
lobbyists and said ALEC is known for
“pushing an extreme corporate agenda at the
expense of the American people.”
Almost 100 companies have left ALEC
since 2011, when the Center for Media and
and Common Cause – plus other
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environmental issues, and labor rights –
rate America has made one great big mistake started to pressure companies to abandon their
in their quest to make Unions obsolete.
participation in ALEC.
Corporate America failed to share. They
“These companies have decided it’s just
failed to share the prosperity, share the prof- not worth it anymore,” said Jay Riestenberg,
its, and share the good times with the work- a policy analyst at Common Cause. “It says
ers.
a lot about ALEC, about their underlying
They could have settled for increasing problems, especially its positions on climate
their own corporate pay packages by 20 or change and net neutrality.
50 or 100 percent. But they didn’t. Accord“I think with the departure of Google,
ing to the +XI¿QJWRQ 3RVW, CEO pay has Facebook, Yahoo, Yelp … people aren’t going
increased by 937 percent since 1978. Let to take ALEC seriously,” Riestenberg added.
me repeat that: Nine Hundred, Thirty-Seven
Activists are now moving to pressure
Percent!
eBay and AOL to drop their involvement
Average CEO Compensation was $15.2 with ALEC.
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“We need to tell AOL that, like dialThe Trickle down economic theory sold to up Internet users in an age of broadband,
the American people by President Reagan is continuing their ALEC membership means
a bill of goods. Wages have not risen along they’ll only fall further behind,” said MoveOn.
ZLWK FRUSRUDWH SUR¿WV &RUSRUDWH &(2¶V org’s Marisol Garcia, whose effort, “AOL: If
didn’t share and if you ask one why not, they you’re in ALEC, you’ve got fail,” is online at
will tell you (if they are honest) they didn’t http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/aol-if-youreshare because they didn’t have to.
in-alec?source=homepage.
Trickle down is what has happened to
“Sign our petition and tell AOL to take a
stand against ALEC’s dirty politicians and
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backroom deals,” she said.
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The Labor Paper October 16, 2014 9
The Human Factor
This column is a continuation of the
October 2nd column which featured the writing
of Lee Hamilton. His column – This Is Why
Government Openness Matters – appeared
in the August 26, 2014 edition of the Des
Moines Register.
This October 16th column highlights the
writing of Dana Milbank, a columnist for the
Washington Post. His column, American’s
Optimism Is Dying, appeared in the August
17, 2014 edition of the Des Moines Register.
This column also highlights the writing of
Steffen Schmidt, a Professor of Political
Science at Iowa State University, and the coauthor of the best-selling textbook American
Government and Politics Today. His
column – Trust In Government Is Crucial
For Country – appeared in the July 16, 2014
edition of the Des Moines Register.
First, Dana Milbanck:
“America’s optimism is dying. It is the
very essence of the American Dream: an
irrepressible confidence that our children
will live better than we do. And now it is
gone. It has been slipping for some time,
really, but a Wall Street Journal/NBC News
poll this month put an exclamation point on
American’s lost optimism.
“When asked if ‘life for our children’s
generation will be better than it has been for
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“When you look closer, things seem even
worse, if that’s possible.
“I called Fred Yang, the Democratic
pollster who conducted the survey along with
Republican Bill McInturff, and he told me the
pessimism was universal. The wealthy were as
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respectively) and even though those who felt
they were doing well personally didn’t think
their children would do as well (61 percent).
“Women are as grim as men, and there’s
little difference according to race (whites
are slightly more pessimistic and Hispanics
slightly less) or by region (Westerners are
slightly less gloomy than the others).
“The young are relatively less pessimistic
than the old (64 percent to 86 percent) but
still plenty discouraged in absolute terms.
Republicans (88 percent) were more dour than
Democrats (61 percent) just as Democrats
were more dour when asked in 2006 (56
percent to 71 percent) during a similar stage
in George W. Bush’s presidency.
“In other words, the gloom goes beyond
wealth, gender, race, religion, age and
ideology. This fractious nation is united by
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one thing: lost faith in the United States.
“Certainly some of the dark outlook has
to do with the slow recovery. And there’s
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in U.S. history to see a decline in living
standards. But now the economy is improving
measurably, and optimism hasn’t followed.
“‘I keep thinking, boy, these numbers
are going to turn around, and they don’t
turn around, they’re enduring,’ said Andrew
Kohut, founding director of the Pew Research
Center.
“Kohut attributes the phenomenon to
structural problems such as income inequality.
He notes that people in other advanced
countries have also been more pessimistic
since the 2008 economic collapse. That’s
true, but Americans were already plenty
pessimistic about the next generation (65
percent to 27 percent) back in 2006, when the
economy was strong.
“Yang’s suspicion, which I share, is that
something deeper is also at work. Americans
are reacting, in part, to the breakdown of the
political system, which leaves people quite
rationally worried about American decline
and the nation’s diminishing ability to weather
crises.
“‘One of the hallmarks of being an
American is the optimism that your children
will be better off,’ Yang said. The lost
optimism, he said, ‘says a lot about how
shaken we are by the inability of our political
system to address seemingly easy issues, and
it leaves us worried about the future.’
“In a narrow sense, this is good news
for President Obama because it means the
problem is not of his making but is the result
of two decades of scorched-earth politics.
That’s bad news for the rest of us, though,
because the problem is larger than any leader’s
ability to bring hope and change.
“For much of U.S. history, optimism
was a given. The Post’s polling analyst,
Scott Clement, came up with a 1942 survey
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to 27 percent, expected their children to be
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found that 54 percent thought it likely that
children would have a better life than their
parents, versus 44 percent who didn’t. In
1990, the WSJ/NBC poll found the optimists
besting the pessimists, 50 to 45 percent.
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had different results, with some finding
generally higher levels of optimism and others
closer to the WSJ/NBC results. But virtually
all polling shows a steep decline in optimism
since the late 1990s and early 2000s.
“Yang didn’t see that improving much,
even as the economy does. ‘The unsettledness
of the public is what is normal now,’ he said.
‘To me, this is less about economic reality
than about our political system – our lack
of confidence that our political leaders,
regardless of party, are equipped to deal with
the future.”
Now, Steffen Schmidt:
“Trust In Government Is Crucial For Our
Country. The Fourth of July was not just a
celebration of American independence. It
was also a celebration of the creation of an
American government that would be the
guarantor of our freedom and independence.
“ Wi l l i a m G a l s t o n , s e n i o r f e l l o w
in governance studies at the Brookings
Institution, has said, “In the late 1950s, the
federal government that fought the Great
Depression, won the Second World War,
avoided the anticipated post-war economic
slump, built the Interstate Highway System,
and encouraged the growth of a mass middle
class could draw upon a huge reservoir of
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American people reported that they trusted
the government in Washington to do what
was right ‘most of the time’ or ‘just about
always.’ Seventy-six percent of the electorate
gave Lyndon Johnson his 1964 landslide said
Human Factor
Continued on page 19
10
October 16, 2014
The Labor Paper
Labor Secretary Perez praises building trades training programs
by Tom Germuska Jr.
Cleveland Labor Citizen Editor
ROSSFORD, Ohio (PAI) – While
maintaining a smile, it was pretty clear U.S.
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez was a bit out
of his comfort zone when he strapped on a
hardhat and harness and participated in a
rescue safety exercise.
Perez accepted the offer to join the class
exercise during a tour of the Toledo Electrical
JATC in Rossford on July 29. After donning
safety gear and strapping the harness over
his shirt and tie, Perez made a brief 6-foot
climb and was then “rescued” and lowered
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The hands-on participation highlighted
of a full day of activities around Toledo
for Perez, who was joined by Education
Secretary Arne Duncan.
Perez and Duncan came to Toledo, “to see
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that are equipping Americans with the
knowledge, skills and industry-relevant
education they need to get on the pathway to
a successful career,” according to a prepared
statement.
During a brief lunch, two Electrical
Workers (IBEW) Local 8 apprentices sat
next to Perez and Duncan. Second-year
apprentice Jason Ryan answered a number
of questions Perez posed while they ate.
“He wanted to know about our facility
and our career path,” Ryan said. “He really
George Meany sculpture comes home to AFL-CIO
by Tom Owens, Building Trades Department
WASHINGTON, D.C.--After residing
for many years as a visual focal point for
his namesake educational institution, a large
sculpture of George Meany has been prominently placed in the lobby of AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC.
Situating the massive sculpture in the
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arguably the most effective labor leader in
our nation’s history.
With only an eighth grade education,
the blunt talking Meany rose from being a
plumber from the Bronx, NY to assuming
the most powerful labor post in the United
States. For decades, his input (which was our
input) was sought from our country’s leaders on economic, social and foreign policy
issues.
Today, there are many who claim that
changing social and economic conditions
call for a new kind of labor leader, one that
is more in tune with today’s rapid technological advances and the new demands being
made on the American work force.
However, history demonstrates that many
of us - today’s labor leaders - might well
learn a thing or two from Mr. Meany’s 25
years at the helm of the AFL-CIO, whereby
the labor movement had a laser-like focus on
issues that directly affected the membership
of our unions and the entire working class.
But, George Meany also made sure that the
labor movement remained at the forefront of
national efforts to enact progressive social
legislation, while keeping politicians of all
stripes honest through his efforts to prevent
the labor movement from becoming part and
parcel of any particular political party; thereby diluting the our collective strength.
For George Meany, his most important
decisions were always reached through the
prism of how they would affect the current
membership, future membership and our nation, in that order.
At his core, Meany was always a strong
defender of US democracy and capitalism,
and he opposed corruption in any form and
DWDQ\OHYHO+HZDVDOVRD¿HUFHDQWLFRPmunist who worked with both republican
and democratic administrations for decades
to support democratic labor movements behind the Iron Curtain and around the world.
“Workers are not blind to the imperfections
and injustices of the system,” he once fa-
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mously noted, “but they are deaf to the cries
of those who would wreck the best system of
government yet devised by man in the vain
hope that something better might replace it.”
Meany once proudly explained that he
never had to walk a picket line because his
union never needed one, thanks to the collaborative relationship his union developed
with its employers.
In 1974, the George Meany Center for Labor Studies was established in Silver Spring,
Maryland, and it was renamed to the National Labor College in 2004. The Meany sculpture was commissioned as a prominent focal
point for the College, and upon the closure
of the campus, arrangements were made to
move it to AFL-CIO headquarters.
I would urge everyone who is associated with the American labor movement to
take the time to visit the House of Labor in
Washington and when you do, spend a few
minutes to marvel at the impact that George
Meany had on our movement and our nation,
and then contemplate how we are approaching our jobs as today’s labor leaders.
/LNH PH , WUXVW \RX ZLOO ¿QG WKDW VSHQGing a few minutes in the spirit of our movement’s greatest leader to be both inspiring
and energizing.
Welcome home, George Meany!
wanted to hear our perspective and about the
way things work.”
Ryan and fellow second-year apprentice
Cory Artz said they were honored to be
selected to participate in the event, but the
pair also admitted it was a bit of a whirlwind
since they were only given notice the day
before.
Besides the lunch and tour of the 45,000
square-foot training facility, the two Obama
cabinet members visited a local technology
magnet school and nearby Owens
Community College.
Owens is part of the new Registered
Apprenticeship College Consortium, a
new Obama administration plan to boost
community college graduation rates. The
program lets apprentices receive credit for
both on-the-job training and classroom
learning that can be applied toward an
associate or bachelor degree.
Perez described the relationship between
the area labor trades and the community
college as a “remarkable partnership.” He
added “these people are punching their ticket
to the middle class. There’s a huge demand
for what they are doing. This is a win for
everyone.”
Before joining the safety rescue exercise,
the two cabinet members watched
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training opportunities, the wind turbine also
generates a portion of the electricity used by
the training facility.
“We’ve got business, we’ve got labor
unions, we’ve got higher education here
together making sure that employers that
want to grow their businesses have the
skilled work force to compete,” Perez said at
the end of the tour.
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Special Report: Supreme Court cases to affect millions
by Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON, D.C. (PAI) -- It’s the
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U.S. Supreme Court comes back on the job,
with cases – from pregnancy discrimination
to whether retirees get health care – that will
affect millions of workers.
As the justices’ rulings in 2013-14 showed,
their decisions have a strong effect on
workers’ rights. In the most-obvious example,
the full 5-member National Labor Relations
Board is now re-deciding hundreds of workerERVVFRQÀLFWVDSULRUERDUGKDQGOHG
That’s because the court’s GOP-named
majority ruled Democratic President
Barack Obama illegally named two “recess
appointees,” thus throwing out all that board’s
decisions.
There are no NLRB cases, yet, in the
2014-15 Supreme Court term that runs from
October through June. But there are several
cases with vast implications for workers, and
more could be added. Issues important to
workers the court will handle include:
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against pregnant women if its disability policy
is “gender-neutral?” UPS argues the answer
is “yes,” against driver Peggy Young, all the
way to the Supreme Court. The justices will
hear the case on Dec. 3.
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became pregnant in 2006, she got a doctor’s
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from lifting more than 20 pounds during the
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lift up to 70-pound packages and be able to
push 150-pound packages on a dolly.
Young’s union, the Teamsters, went to bat
for her. Its shop steward argued that federal
law required the company to accommodate
her disability. UPS retorted the union contract
– which was silent on the issue – overrode
the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act
(PDA). UPS put Young on unpaid leave,
where she stayed until two months after her
baby was born.
Young sued under the pregnancy law.
The lower courts sided with UPS, saying
its disability policy was “gender-neutral,”
as federal disability law requires. Young
counters that the PDA extends “disability”
to pregnancy.
“UPS provides temporary accommodated
work to three sizable classes of drivers
with work restrictions: Those with on-thejob injuries, those with Americans with
Disabilities Act disabilities, and those with
conditions that render them ineligible for DOT
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But it does not provide accommodated work
to drivers who experience similar work
restrictions due to pregnancy,” Young and
her lawyers say.
“That disparity violates the PDA’s
requirement that ‘women affected by
pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical
conditions shall be treated the same...as
other persons not so affected but similar in
their ability or inability to work,’” Young’s
brief said. “The PDA’s import is plain:
The employer must not give any lesser
accommodation to the pregnant workers than
it gives to the non-pregnant workers.”
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is at least 56 percent female. “A robust PDA
is key to protecting these workers from
pregnancy discrimination in employment,”
their brief says.
“UPS’ claim that collective-bargaining
agreements are ‘controlling’ over the PDA’s
substantive protections is baseless,” the
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employee’s protections under the federal
civil rights laws, including those secured
by the PDA, are not forfeited or supplanted
simply because the employees exercised their
rights to form and join a union for purposes
of collective bargaining.
“In fact, it can easily be the case that
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workers must also be extended to women
affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related
medical conditions since, by operation of the
PDA’s plain terms, those workers must be
treated the same as other workers who are
similar in their ability or inability to work.”
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Virginia, which the justices will hear on Nov.
10, will give the High Court a chance to sort
it out.
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says the only way union contracts’ health
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contract says, in clear and plain terms, that it
does. Two other circuit courts say the retirees
are covered if the contract has language “that
can reasonably support an interpretation
that health-care benefits should continue
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$10,500 lifetime cap on past retirees’ health
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current retirees, too.
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Tackett, the lead retiree, told lower courts,
that 88 of the 238 current retirees hit it in
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retiree must pay his or her own medical bills.
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members.)
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sued. They added the cap on current retirees
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and Local 644.
“When read in context of all related
agreements and” the union’s and company’s
performance, “traditional rules of contract
interpretation require only the language
be ‘reasonably susceptible’ to the asserted
meaning” of the section involved, in this
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reasonably interpreted to provide that retiree
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contract interpretation, to the extent consistent
with national labor policy, to resolve this
question, just as they employ them to resolve
other questions that arise under collective
bargaining agreements. Applying those
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paid for time spent in security screenings?
In a year when low-paid workers nationwide
Trumka: raising wages
driving force at the polls
WASHINGTON, D.C.--As working people are gearing up to get out and vote Nov. 4,
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka had this to say on one of the top issues on people’s
minds:
“Raising wages will be a driving force at the polls in the approaching midterm elections. Working people will turn out for candidates who support solutions that will make a
difference in the real world—from raising the minimum wage to ensuring that all workers
can bargain collectively and make a livable wage. The labor movement stands in strong
support of the broad campaign to bring attention to raising wages leading up to and following Oct. 10 [a national day of awareness about raising the federal minimum wage to
$10.10 an hour], and it’s our responsibility to keep it going.
“Labor is perfectly positioned to unite a massive movement, to raise wages and to
lift up our communities. We have an opportunity to show every elected leader, from the
White House on down, that those who stand proudly with working families will win in
November. It’s that simple.”
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warehouse workers and others – have
marched by the millions for a $15 hourly
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case involving warehouse workers, on Oct. 8.
Federal law says hourly workers must get
overtime pay if they toil more than 40 hours a
week, including time for “principal activities”
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protective work clothes. Now workers at
Amazon.com warehouses demand they get
paid for the time they take going through antitheft security checks, which lasted at least 25
minutes each, at the end of their workdays. A
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Solutions, Inc., a contractor who hired them to
toil in Amazon’s Nevada warehouses.
“During the search process, plaintiffs and
other employees ‘were required to remove all
personal belongings from their persons such
as wallets, keys, and belts, and pass through
metal detectors before being released from
work and allowed to leave the facility,’”
Jesse Busk and Laurie Castro said in their
lawyers’ brief. “Integrity violated” federal
law “because it did not pay them overtime
for the time spent waiting for and during the
search process.”
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco sided with the workers, but
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government” said the workers should not get
paid “unless the employer ordered the worker
to do something directly or closely related to
that worker’s shift work,” Burk and Castro
point out. “If an employer requires a worker
to engage in pre- or post- shift activity for
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work within the scope of” federal overtime
pay law “even if it is wholly unrelated to the
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merchandise, the anti-theft screenings
constitute a compensable principal activity,”
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Health Department worker Albert Brown
says the agency retaliated against him when
he charged that discrimination denied him a
promotion. He won $385,000 in back pay,
front pay and damages. Brown says state
employers should also pay extra taxes workers
owe on such sums. The justices must decide
to hear his case.
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Mercedes workers form UAW Local 112
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — At a news conference on October 3, Mercedes-Benz U.S.
International (MBUSI) employees and the
UAW — with support from the Daimler
World Employee Committee and the German automotive trade union IG Metall —
announced the formation of UAW Local
D QHZ ORFDO XQLRQ SURYLGLQJ UHSUHVHQtation for workers at the MBUSI assembly
plant in Vance, Ala., near Tuscaloosa.
The MBUSI plant in Tuscaloosa County
is the only Daimler plant in the world that
does not currently offer employee representation. Organized by MBUSI employees,
8$:/RFDORIIHUVZRUNHUVWKHRSSRUWXnity for a voice in the workplace that aligns
with Daimler AG’s global commitment to
the German principle of “co-determination”
between management and employees. UAW
/RFDOZLOOUHSUHVHQWDQ\LQWHUHVWHGHPployees who join the local as members. No
employees will be required to join.
“Mercedes-Benz is one of the most storied brands in the history of the global automotive industry, and that’s in large part
because of the company’s workers,” said
Dennis Williams, president of the UAW.
“It’s time for the committed and hard-working employees at MBUSI to have the same
representation that Daimler employees enjoy
around the world. It’s the right thing to do.
Plus, it will improve productivity and quality, ensuring success for both the company
and the workforce.”
Williams noted that the UAW already
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plants in the U.S., including Daimler Trucks
North America facilities in North Carolina.
In May, Daimler leaders pointed to “ongoing
close collaboration with the UAW” in securLQJUHWLUHHEHQH¿WVDQGLQFUHDVLQJWKHFRPpany’s long-term competitiveness.
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its popular C-Class vehicles at the plant.
MBUSI employees immediately began communicating with fellow team members and
the plant’s management about the goal of
applying best practices from the American
and German labor systems in order to create
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the MBUSI workforce.
“We are asking Daimler to respect our
right to representation and give the same opportunities to Alabama’s working families
that have been extended to our counterparts
elsewhere in the U.S. and around the world,”
said Rodney Bowens, who works in quality
at the MBUSI body and paint shops. “Our
hope is that management will recognize the
importance of today’s announcement and
welcome our new local union into the Daimler family.”
7KH DQQRXQFHPHQW RI 8$: /RFDO follows a recent agreement between the
UAW, the Daimler World Employee Committee, and IG Metall to advance employee
representation at MBUSI. The agreement reDI¿UPVWKHRUJDQL]DWLRQV¶ORQJVWDQGLQJSDUWnerships and cooperative efforts.
Gary Casteel, the UAW’s secretary-treasurer who in July was elected vice chairman
of the Daimler World Employee Committee, called on the company to work with the
new local union. “Daimler has a clear global
commitment to employee representation,”
said Casteel, a native of Muscle Shoals,
Ala. “On a personal note, I’m proud to help
advance job security and job growth in my
home state through increased collaboration
between Daimler’s employees and management.”
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union’s priorities would include ensuring
plant safety, supporting improved ergonomics in the workplace, and creating pathways
to permanent employment for more than
1,000 temporary workers at MBUSI. “The
Mercedes-Benz brand is all about quality,”
said Tara Dooley, who works in quality in
the plant. “We believe quality production
starts with having a voice in the workplace
and recognizing that when employees and
management work together, then everyone
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Judge finds in favor of AFSCME Council 31
ILLINOIS--In a decision issued Sept.
30, a panel of Illinois appellate court judges
ruled that frontline state employees are owed
the wages spelled out in their union contract
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cannot erase the state’s obligation to pay.
The appellate court found in favor of AFSCME Council 31. An independent arbitrator had previously decided that the state’s
failure to pay the wages was a violation of
the union contract, and a circuit court judge
agreed in part, ruling that the wages were
owed.
Here the judges rejected an appeal by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who
sought to vacate the arbitrator’s award, and
accepted AFSCME’s cross appeal that the
monies must be paid in full. The appellate
court now remands the case to circuit court
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award.
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to thousands of employees in the state departments of Corrections, Human Services,
Juvenile Justice, Natural Resources and
Public Health. “Today’s decision is a win
for working men and women who serve all
the people of Illinois, caring for the disabled,
keeping prisons safe, maintaining our state
parks and much more,” AFSCME Council
31 executive director Roberta Lynch said.
“Moreover it’s a victory for a principle of
simple fairness for all workers: A contract
is a contract, it means what it says, and no
employer—not state government or anyone else—can unilaterally withhold wages
owed.”
More than a year ago, Governor Pat
Quinn had requested that Attorney General
Madigan drop the appeal. She refused, resulting in further litigation and leading to
today’s decision. “
We hold that the arbitrator’s award comports with the overriding public policy of
permitting the State to negotiate enforceable multiyear collective bargaining agreements with unions of state employees, and
the award furthers the express constitutional
policy forbidding the General Assembly
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obligation of contracts,” the appellate judges
wrote. AFSCME Council 31 and the Quinn
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supplemental appropriation that the governor signed in May, paying about 45 percent
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Senator Andy Manar announces grant for Mother Jones Monument
Grant will also fund
improvements to the
Union Miners Cemetery in
Mt. Olive
MT. OLIVE, Ill.--In October 2013, the
Illinois AFL-CIO began a fundraising effort
in partnership with the Union Miners’ Cemetery Perpetual Care Association, Illinois
Labor History Society, United Mine Workers
of America, Mother Jones Foundation and
the efforts of the restoration. The $43,000
grant will be added to the more than $75,000
collected from labor organizations and individuals from
across
the
United States.
“We thank
Senator Manar
for obtaining
the
tourism
grant to restore
the
Mother
Jones Monument and the
Union Miners
Cemetery. His
efforts
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ensure
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future generations of Working Americans
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State Senator Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill) celebrate the
to preserve and restore the Mother Jones courage
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monument and make improvements to the Mother Jones
Union Miners Cemetery in Mt Olive.
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St. Louis Metro ATU declares victory, preserves retirement security
CHEERING VICTORY: Amalgamated Transit Union Local 788 President Mike Breihan
(at the microphone) was greeted with a standing ovation by the roughly 200 delegates
attending at the Missouri AFL-CIO’s biennial convention Sept. 17 at the Crowne Plaza
Hotel in St. Louis after announcing a tentative agreement between Local 788 and Metro on a new contract that preserves workers’ retirement security. – Labor Tribune
by Tim Rowden, Editor The St. Louis
Labor Tribune
ST. LOUIS (PAI) -- After Metro Transit
workers waged an aggressive campaign
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general public at garages, bus stops and
MetroLink stops all over the St. Louis area,
the Bi-State Development Agency (Metro)
and Amalgamated Transit Union Local
788 agreed on a fair contract that preserves
workers’ retirement security in the form of a
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improves health care coverage.
But there’s still another big issue to tackle:
The injection of a racist “Oreo” comment into
the bargaining by Metro negotiators – and the
agency’s response, or lack of it, to that.
“This is an historic day and a big victory
for all of St. Louis. Working people in this city
have been under attack for years, but today,
Metro workers and their allies reversed the
momentum,” said Local 788 President Mike
Breihan. “We drew a line in the sand and said,
‘No, you can’t take what little we have left.’”
Breihan announced the agreement at the
Missouri AFL-CIO’s Convention in late
September at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St.
Louis. The roughly 200 union delegates there
responded with a standing ovation.
The agreement followed a dramatic month
in the long-standing dispute between Metro
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NLRB: Strikers can get jobs back if
replacements are not permanent
CINCINNATI, Ohio (PAI) -- Workers
forced to strike can get their jobs back, with
back pay, if the employer doesn’t tell the
“replacements” that they’re permanent, and
hires them only after the strikers walked
out, a National Labor Relations Board
administrative law judge ruled.
“Where striker replacements are only
temporary, an economic striker who has been
discharged is entitled to his or her job back,”
administrative law judge Arthur Amchan
ruled in a case involving Tri-State Building
Supplies of Cincinnati. He ordered Tri-State to
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The company must “prove the replacement
workers” are “hired as permanent employees.
To meet this burden” the company “must show
a mutual understanding between itself and
the replacements that they are permanent,”
Amchan added in his Sept. 2 ruling.
The case began shortly before Christmas
2013, when production manager Tim Utz,
after talking with owner Kathy Caldon, told
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two days after New Year’s – Thursday, Jan. 2
and Friday, Jan. 3 – they’d get paid for New
Year’s, too. Traditionally, Amchan added,
Tri-State shuts down completely between
Christmas and New Year’s. The rest of the
year, its workers toiled for 10 hours daily
Monday-Thursday.
The workers liked that post-New Year’s
arrangement and worked both days, but when
Utz took the payroll records to Caldon, she
backtracked and refused to pay for New
Year’s. On Utz’ advice, 10 workers – 85
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walked out, too.
On Jan. 9, Caldon fired them all. The
10 workers took their case to the NLRB’s
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failed either background checks or drug tests.
She didn’t tell the replacements they were
permanent.
That meant the jobs were still open
to the strikers, Amchan said. “Economic
strikers remain employees...and are entitled
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departure of permanent replacements, and to
be put on a preferential hiring list if no open
positions exist,” he said. “It was ‘incumbent’
on” Tri-State “to seek them out as positions
were vacated.”
The company “appears to concede” in its
legal papers “that some of the replacements
never worked a day for the company,” his
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were entitled to reinstatement when positions
opened up, even if they hadn’t offered to
return to work unconditionally, he said.
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discussed because since the strikers did not
picket it, the replacement workers had no
reason to be concerned with losing their jobs.
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rights to reinstatement. Thus, one would
expect it to assure permanent replacements
that their position would not be in jeopardy
if the strikers offered to return to work
unconditionally.” It didn’t.
riders at transit centers and organized
demonstrations at Metro HQ to draw attention
to the economic injustice perpetrated by
Metro CEO John Nations on St. Louis riders
and workers alike.
Metro workers have been toiling without
a contract for three-and-a-half years and
have not had a raise in six years. The new
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of September, includes a 3 percent raise
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numerous occasions, to racially divide
workers during the negotiations.
One of the most egregious incidents
was when members of Metro’s negotiating
committee attempted to race-bait workers by
distributing a recipe for “Oreo cookies” to
members of Local 788 at the conclusion of
a heated bargaining session. The majority of
Metro bus operators are African-American,
while the local’s president is white.
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a racial slur that the union is “white on the
inside and black on the outside,” like the
cookie.
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workers.
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said the union awaits responses from Govs.
Jay Nixon, D-Mo., and Pat Quinn, D-Ill.,
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slurs at the bargaining table. Metro serves St.
Louis and its suburbs on the Missouri side of
the Mississippi River and East St. Louis and
surrounding areas on the Illinois side.
“This is how you use the ‘N’ word without
saying it,” Hanley said. “It must be dealt with
swiftly and with respect for the workers of St.
Louis.”
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labor contract after years of contentious
negotiations, Local 788 members took to
the streets outside Metro headquarters in
downtown St. Louis on Sept. 26, to demand
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staff responsible for race-baiting workers
during the negotiations.
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attempted, on numerous occasions, to racially
divide workers and divide the workers along
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operators during the negotiations. The “Oreo
cookie” was just one of the most-egregious
incidents.
“He said, ‘Here, here’s a present for
you guys,’” Breihan said, referring to one
of Metro’s bargainers at the end of a July
negotiating session. “Basically, they’re saying
this is a black union that’s white on the inside.
The leadership is white and the membership
is black.”
Hanley, who sent a letter of outraged
protest to Nations after the incident was
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for the rally and march in front of Metro
headquarters.
“When we learned in Washington this
organization sat at the bargaining table and
tried to racially divide ATU Local 788, that
they had the nerve to call us a bunch of Oreos,
we were stunned,” Hanley said. “This is a
21st century transit agency where the people
in charge are stuck in the 19th century, where
racism is an accepted way of doing business.”
The ATU Latino Caucus, the Coalition
of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), Jobs
with Justice, the Missouri NAACP, Service
Employees Local 1, CWA Local 6355,
Laborers Local 110, the Missouri Alliance
for Retired Americans and Show Me $15,
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$15 an hour and the right to form a union all
joined ATU Local 788’s rally.
“Securing the agreement is a victory, but it
doesn’t resolve the pain and outrage the Oreo
incident caused. This issue must be addressed,”
Breihan said. “After all our community has
been through in the last month, we will not
accept behavior like this,” he added, citing
unrest in the suburban city of Ferguson, where
Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager,
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what good companies do… she just would jobs… and used his fortune to fund groups
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86'LVWULFW-XGJH5REHUW&%URRP¿HOG and end Medicare as we know it. Rauner is
dismissed the bulk of the lawsuit, but said, unapologetic about his extreme views. When
“At the end of the day, it appears that asked if there was anything the public could
plaintiffs, (Kirk, et. al.) were displeased do to prevent Wall Street billionaires like
at nearly every step of the way, from him from wrecking the economy and running
negotiating the original purchase agreement the lives of millions of families like they did
to the wind-down operations, defendants in 2008, he said, ‘markets are cyclical. Get
over it.’ Illinois families simply can’t afford
(Rauner/GTCR) chose to play ‘hard ball.’”
For workers who wonder and worry their to allow Bruce Rauner to run Illinois like one
job could be outsourced, or sent offshore, of his businesses.”
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let’s examine what a Rauner administration
might mean for them. Look no further than D ZRUNHUIULHQGO\ JRYHUQRU LQ RI¿FH
an answer he gave Chicago magazine. President Michael Carrigan of the Illinois
When asked what he considered his biggest AFL-CIO addressed the need for workers to
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answered, “We bought a majority interest Governor Quinn, when he said, “Working
and helped restructure it. We turned $60 families in this state can’t afford a Rauner
million into $860 million. That was a good administration. He is an arch enemy of
workers. He wants to slash the minimum
one.”
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Rauner and his cohorts moved 100 percent unions. We felt it was important to send a
of the manufacturing to China, Mexico, message that we are standing with Pat Quinn
and will be doing everything we can to see
Singapore and Brazil.
Neal Whitmire, communications director that he is reelected.”
Quinn
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Jobless rate drops to 5.9 percent for September: 248,000 new jobs
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The Labor Paper October 16, 2014 19
IBEW Local 34
fought for yesterday, can be taken away at
any time.
The Labor Laws in this country exist
the middle class and your paycheck. That
is why collective bargaining is so important because Unions and the Labor Movement
in the work place: one voice, a seat at the elected legislators who had the workers’
table, strength in numbers. Look at the data, back. And having said that, Labor Law is
citizens of other advanced countries have only good if the people in government proreceived considerably larger raises over the vide the agency’s like the NLRB the manlast three decades, while American wages power, resources and funding to enforce the
law.
are stagnant.
So what does all this have to so with the
The Union busting tactics and the strategy of groups like ALEC have done what IBEW? Why does politics matter? Why
they set out to do. They increased corporate should you, the IBEW member, care about
SUR¿WVDQGGHFUHDVHGWKHZDJHVKDUHRIWKH minimum wage or the wages of people who
workforce. They have put the Union move- work in other industries? Because if more
ment in American down, and right now they Americans have a bigger piece of the economic pie, they will be able to spend that inare trying to put their boots on our throats.
They say Unions are not needed in Amer- FRPHRQJRRGVDQGVHUYLFHVWKDWEHQH¿WWKH
ican anymore because we have laws like IBEW.
How many more additions to homes
OSHA that protect worker safety. That money is equivalent to speech. That Corporations would be built? How many service calls
are people. (I’ll believe that when Texas would be generated because Mrs. Robinson
executes one). Card carrying Union mem- GRZQWKHVWUHHWLV¿QDOO\JHWWLQJKHUKRWWXE
What about people who want to go green
bers who are not supporting Labor-friendly
candidates need to wake up. What Unions and install solar panels at their residence?
How many more restaurants would expand want everything he can lay his hands on and
if more Americans could afford to take the then raise his voice against the poor devil
family out for dinner?
who wants ten cents more a day.”
When I was growing up my father used to
2. “And what have our unions done?
take us to a supper club for dinner. The sup- What do they aim to do? To improve the
per club was the blue-collar working man’s standard of life, to uproot ignorance and fosequivalent to a country club. Dad and Mom ter education, to instill character, manhood
would have dinner with friends and I was and independent spirit among our people; to
KDQGHGD¿VWIXOORITXDUWHUVWRSOD\3LQEDOO bring about a recognition of the interdepenPac Man and Asteroids.
dence of man upon his fellow man. We aim
Today all the supper clubs are gone. Re- to establish a normal work-day, to take the
placed by fast food and chain restaurants. children from the factory and workshop and
Every city in American looks the same when give them the opportunity of the school and
you get off the interstate: same food, same the playground. In a word, our unions strive
stores, same everything, cookie cutter Cor- to lighten toil, educate their members, make
porate America.
their homes more cheerful, and in every way
We need to bring back the mom and pop contribute an earnest effort toward making
stores and mom and pop restaurants. And the life the better worth living.”
only way to do that is to increase that stan3. “There’s a direct relationship between
dard of living for the middle class and the the ballot box and the bread box, and what
poor. The well-to-do in this country can only WKHXQLRQ¿JKWVIRUDQGZLQVDWWKHEDUJDLQeat one steak dinner at a time. How many ing table can be taken away in the legislative
more steak dinners would be purchased if halls.”
the CEO’s of this great country shared the
Brothers and Sisters, this is what the
wealth? How about instead of getting a $5 Union has accomplished in the last hundred
million raise, the CEO accepted 2.5 million years. Don’t let it all slip away because you
and gave the other 2.5 million to their work- didn’t take the time to VOTE. I’m going to
government has ignored Americans’ concerns force? It’s time we gave America a raise. send a message this election by voting for laHuman Factor
on many issues.
Vote to increase the minimum wage here bor-friendly candidates, and then I’m going
Continued from page 9
“The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have in Illinois. In San Francisco, the minimum to go to a labor-friendly sporting goods store
the same thing.
now become unpopular. In the latest CNN/ wage is the highest in the country at $10.74. to buy myself a new Savage or Remington
“Trust in government is crucially important ORC International poll, support for the war And guess what? McDonalds still has a dol- KXQWLQJULÀH3ROLWLFLDQVZLOOQHYHUWDNHP\
for the United States to survive in a dangerous in Afghanistan has dipped below 20 percent, lar menu.
guns, and the fact that a quality American
and unstable world. Unfortunately, the world PDNLQJWKHFRXQWU\¶VORQJHVWPLOLWDU\FRQÀLFW
I’m going to leave you with two more DQG8QLRQPDGH¿UHDUPLVEXFNV
has been unstable and dangerous for most arguably its most unpopular one, too.
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of the nation’s history. Today, without any
³7KLV DOVR FRQ¿UPV IRUPHU SROOV 7ZR Samuel Gompers, and a third from UAW’s
Congratulations to our member Curtis
question, is an exceptionally risky time both thirds of those questioned in an ABC News/ great leader Walter Reuther:
Knowles who has recently went on pension.
internationally and domestically.
Washington Post poll said the war had not
1. “The man who has his millions will
“While some were working tirelessly EHHQZRUWK¿JKWLQJDQGDQ$VVRFLDWHG3UHVV
to undermine, diminish, weaken and even GFK survey showed 57 percent saying the
discredit the government, it nonetheless U.S. did the wrong thing in going to war in
remains the government of the United States. Afghanistan.
It is not the government of the Democrats, the
“The disclosures that the National Security
conservatives, Republicans or liberals. And Agency (NSA) has been doing surveillance
it’s the only thing standing between us and on Americans is the most egregious personal
(Current Members & Retirees Only & 1 Guest)
those who wish us ill.
concern of Americans.
“Of course, we need to keep that
“Second, U.S. politicians have been
government in check so that it does not driving their message farther and farther
overstep its mandate by abusing its power. apart. The polarization that is so visible in
That is actually what the current disagreement Congress and in most political races across the
between the Democrats and Republicans is country has deepened the gulf between many
all about.
Americans and their government in spite of
“Our government is the most powerful the fact that the ‘Not So Divided’ study shows
DOO\ZHLQGLYLGXDOVKDYHLQ¿JKWLQJIDLUWUDGH we actually agree on most issues such as job
and in combating cyber attacks against our creation, better education, safer communities
personal security, U.S. businesses, power and more accessible health care.
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plants, airports, banks and other critical
“We are most divided on three hot-button
infrastructure.
topics – certain gay and lesbian issues,
“Without the federal government to help abortion, and Second Amendment issues
orchestrate our transportation networks we relating to gun ownership. Gay marriage and
FRXOGQRWHI¿FLHQWO\GULYHRUVKLSVWXIIIURP gay adoptions were very polarized. However,
the West Coast to the East Coast, or for majorities in both red and blue states (75 and
that matter, from Minnesota to Kansas. The 82 percent, respectively) said that gays and
interstate highway system and rail network lesbians should be allowed to serve openly
make the arteries that tie the nation together in the military.
logical and functional.
“Foreign aid, the use of U.S. troops and
“It is also the federal government’s justice Department spending were also
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Miscellaneous
For sale: Fisher Price power wheel
boy’s dune racer, electric car, paid
$300, car in exc cond, needs new
battery from walmart internet $53.
guarantee this car $100, great christmas gift. Call 697-3323 (Bartonville)
(10-16)
For sale: machinist tools $1800
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For sale: Hoyler patient lift &slings
$150 OBO; Baby mbn for kid, novelty collectable teapots, collection
stuffed animals BO; collection all
kinds BO. Call 309-340-0754 (must
dial 309) (Pekin) (10-2)
For sale: 2 used 24”x20’ metal culvers $350 each or $600 for both. Call
389-3254 or 267-1000 (Glasford)
(10-2)
For sale: 6 HP B&S power washer
2800 PSI, 2 chemical bottles. EC
$300.00; Blue Ox towing system for
2011 to ? Ford Edge. 6500# tow bar.
Roadmaster Invisibrake controller.
LA Bra for vehicle....EC $1500.00
or trade. Call 309-697-2245
For sale: 115 hp Yamaha outboard
motor, good compression runs good, no
prop-no controls $2,000; White Whirlpool tub (still in box) 5-1/2’x32”x21”
deep $200. Call 682-3796 (Peoria)
For sale: 1x12 rough sawn white
cedar (3/4x1-1/4); 12-10 ft & 22-12 ft
$600 for lot or $1.75 per/ft. Call 3832509 (E Peoria) (9-18)
For sale: Marquis Spa hot tub, seats
4-6 people, excellent shape $2500. Call
694-8724 (E Peoria) (9-18)
For sale: 1 ct. total weight diamond
engagement ring NIB size 7-1/2, paid
$1300 new $700 OBO. Call 397-0560
(Peoria) (9-4)
For sale: walnut pub table w/2 leafs
& 6 padded chairs, 3 bar stools; 1 hall
tree, 1 half moon glass top sofa table,
all bought new in 2013 for $3800, will
sell all for $2300, moved oveseas selling everything, call if interested. Call
692-2715 (Peoria) (9-4)
For sale: John Deere 6’ mower 3 pt. hitch GC needs gear box
W00613X014353. make offer. Call
678-0519 (8-21)
Miscellaneous
For sale: Lincoln weld n power gas
powered welding machine on a 2 wheel,
lincensed & titled trailer, machine is
electric start/electronic ignition, runs
& welds good. It’s also a 6000 watt
generator for power tools & backup
generator in power outages, incl are
cables, trickle charger/maintainer 4 tool
bones & a spare tire for trailer, asking
$2500 will consider reasonable offers.
Call 253-8705 (Mapleton) (10-21)
For sale: burn barrels $10 or $15;
old Army footlocker 1950s $75; heavy,
thick plate glass all for $50; extra large,
heavy duty display case plastic, well
built $50; 2 Mazda rims aluminum $25.
Call 697-3557 (Mapleton) (10-2)
For sale: white Frigidare brand Refrigerator/freezer in GC, runs good &
gets very cold, will sell for $150 OBO;
500 lb. work plank 20’ will sell for $175.
Call 369-4085 (Peoria) (10-2)
For sale: 6 hp B&S power washer
2800 PSI, 2 chemical bottles, EC $300;
Blue Ox towing sytem for 2011 to?
Ford Edge, 6500# tow bar, Roadmaster
Invisibrake controller, LA Bra for vehicle EC $1500 or trade. Call 697-2245
(Peoria) (10-2)
For sale: Kreq screw combo; Kreq
Jig 4 w/master system prem. face clamp,
square clamp and DVD. never used paid
200 will sell for $75; plaid glass paints,
new-2-8oz bottles of black liquid leading, 1-4oz silver leading, 1-8oz matte
medium, 32-2 oz bittles of asstd color
glass apints, tips for bottles, 1 lg box of
opened paints & leading, instruction,
projects and pattern books all for $50;
red&white quilt w/12 big white squares
in middle of squares. Handquilted &
embrodery around roses with red in
betwen squares 89”x73” $65. Call 7131071 (W Peoria) (9-18)
For sale: kerosene lamps, hens on the
nest, music boxes, bells, all collectible.
Also have lift chair for $150. Call 6978215 (Peoria) (9-18)
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thru; 2 round heavy duty Baler feeders;
new size 12 chore boots $6; Gray scalloped edge pavers & scalloped curved
red pavers 50 cents each. Call 565-4242
(Hanna City) (9-18)
For sale: wrought iron railing 21’
long 30” high 2 sections white $200;
wrought iron love seat & table 20” wide
15” high white $120. Call 243-5350
(Dunlap) (9-4)
For sale: retired plumber; sell many
boxes of hand tools, hand threader,
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232-9234 (Washington) (9-4)
For sale: brand new, never used 20
hardback project and woodworking
books paid 475 sell for $175. call 7131071 or 217-918-1494 anytime. (W
Peoria) (8-21)
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For Sale: 2011 Suzuki Motorcycle.
Only 117 miles and like new. Great for
back of motorhome travel....EC $2700
or trade. Call 309-697-2245
For sale: 1975 17’ Charger, 1979 Mercury 115 hp 6 cyl, Minokta trolling motor
36 lb thrust, 2 live wells, Humingbird
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trailer/spare. $2800 OBO. Call 369-3336
(Lacon) (9-18)
For sale: 2013 150 Honda 550 miles
new price, $2,000. Call 361-0390 (Lacon) (9-18)
For sale: 2008 Honda CRF 230L
w/title LN street & dirt $2800; 2006
Honda CRF 250X w/title VG, dirt &
street $2500; dumbell 2 prs of 90,80,60,
50, 40,30,20,15,10 with 1-dumbell rack
$350; olympic plates 6-45 lbs, 2-35lbs,
2-25lbs, 4-10lbs, 2-5lbs, 2-2-1/2lbs,
$220; 1 bar chrome 1-ez curl bar w/plate
rack. Call 696-6496 (Peoria) (9-4)
For sale: Wyndham Timeshare,
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 84,000
points per year $11,000 value, will sell
for $5,000. Call 691-5353 (Peoria) (9-4)
For sale: 20’ Layton, sleeps 8 at Giant Goose Ranch, 14’x21’ ad on 20’x26’
Garage, 12’x12’ shed, our own electric
$18,000 OBO. Call 637-3371 (Peoria)
(8-21)
For sale: new in box Laars hot-shot
100,000 BTU swimming pool heater,
natural gas/LP, will heat up to 17,000
gallon pool $700 OBO. Call 694-0472
(Washington) (8-7)
For sale: 10’ Crestline Jon boat, 2
swivel seats, oars, anchor $600 OBO.
Call 645-5444 (Peoria) (8-7)
For sale: 2011 Ultra Limited, cool
blue vivid Black 8202 miles, Stage I
breather, Screaming Eagle tuner chip,
wired for heated grips $19,500 OB
reasonable offer. Call 657-1636 (Chillicothe) (8-7)
Gun Cave: new and used guns. I am a
FFI dealer, I do consignments, layaways
and can order any gun you want, all my
guns are below whole sale, open M-Fri
7:30-6:30, Saturday 7:30-4:00. Bring
FOID up to date. Call 304-1078.
For sale: beautiful move in ready
3 BR, 2.5 ba in Metamora 1411 White
horse Trail, hardwood & ceramic tile
throughout, corner lot w/fenced in back
yard. Finished basement & att 2 stall garage. Pictures can be viewed at zillow.
com under address. Great schools, close
to parks & Metamora Fields golf course
$178,900. Call 241-1182 to schedule a
showing (10-21)
For sale: 4 BR, 2 Ba, 1456 sf main
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floor laundry, all updates 1.9 acres
40x64 pole barn, Bartonville area, Hollis & Limestone school district, new
price $249,900. Call for details & pics.
Call 453-9988 or 453-0465 (10-21)
For sale: super cute 2-3 BR, 2 full
bath cottage in Hanna City w/ kitchen
appliances & washer/dryer hookups.
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daycare, playground & across street
from ball diamond, extra long garden
shed $67,000. Call 360-4340 (8-7)
For sale: Move in ready ranch with
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ft - 2 bedrooms with a possible 3rd in
basement. 1 1/2 baths. Lots of updates!
Newer 4 piece appliance package stays.
Dewatering system with life time warranty. Large fenced in backyard with
storage shed. Lots of closets and a full
attic for storage. Oak Grove/Limestone
Schools within walking distance.
$89,000 -4008 Airport Rd - 309-2082553 (5-15)
For sale: convenient location in
Metamora, two story home, 3 BR, LR,
formal DR w/ 2 built in china cabinets,
eat in kitchen w/oak cabinets, 1 stall garage. Call 694-3123 or 691-2086 (4-17)
Miscellaneous
For sale: Marshall amplifier Kery
King, JCM 800 head. 1960 vintage base
cabinet H celestions EC $1600. Call
697-5617
For sale: 2 cemetery plots, 2 vaults,
and grave marker, valued at $8K, sell
for $4,000 at Hillcreat memory Gardens.
Call 453-6500. (Washington) (8-7)
For sale: golf cart EZ-Go electric,
good batteries $400 with charger; wheel
chair, electric 3 wheel Amigo with charger $250. Call 244-9044 (Delavan) (8-7)
For sale: medical stair lift chair, good
cond. asking $350 OBO. Call 444-2466
(Washington) (8-7)
For sale; 2 stage snow blower. Electric Kerosene Heater, kerosene heaters;
VCRs, DVD/VCR comb; under-thecabinet tv, w/am-fm weather band; mens
coveralls & winter boots size 10-1/2-11
Onkyo Receiver, 10” Delta Table saw;
truck or trailer ramps; Motorcycle Chaps
size 2XL, motorcycle boots-10-1/2; Call
678-1072. (Peoria)
For sale: farm wagon, box type $500;
large safe on skid boards key/combo
$1500; comm’l shelving, moveable
shelves, heavy duty, $150 ea. Call 6973557 (Mapleton) (8-7)
For sale: Ferguson 20 tractor 12 volt
system 6’ three point blade $1200. Call
645-9935 (Trivoli) (8-7)
For sale: Saxophone, looks great with
good case BO. Call 697-1421 LM (8-7)
For sale: 500 gallon LP tanks with 35
to 40 percent full $1250. Call 251-2487
(Washburn( (8-7)
For sale: hayler patient lift $150 obo;
byby monitor $10; novelty collectable
teapots collection BO; stuffed animals
collection BO; slat & pepper shakers
collection BO; collections all kinds BO.
Call 340-0754 (Pekin) (8-7)
Services
Ad: Free pickup of appliances, scrap
metal,and batteries. Will pay cash for
unwanted vehicles. Free quotes on
basement, farm, and garage cleanouts.
Small fee for TV and monitor pickup.
Recycling Ben’s 309-229-7577
Free Beginner / Basic Pistol Handling Class October 11th 9am-1pm.
Must be 21 and bring your own pistol
to the 4 hour class. Limited space so
you have to call and reserve your spot
by calling Kelly at (309) 657-5643.
After you complete the class you are
eligable for a discount on the 16Hr
Concealed Carry Class if you choose
to take it on Oct 18 & 19th. Teachers
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law enforcement weapons officers.
Class held at 2514 Washington St, East
Peoria, IL in the Fodulac Plaza.
“The best place to take a leak” All
your plumbing needs, Call Ferguson
Plumbing in Pekin at 262-4914 (9-18)
Green Acres Pet Services,Your
Place or Our Place,There is No Place
Like Home! Dog Walking any shift.
Pet Sitting and Grooming. Bonded &
Insured, greenacrespetservices.com
Call 309-397-8968 (Creve Coeur)
Show us your union card and receive
10% discount on all of our services.
Printographi Offset Printing, Typos Local 29, 935 N. Second St., Chillicothe,
IL 61523 (309) 274-2353
Live music by the professionals
available for any occassion. Local 26
call 674-0507 FAX 674-0775. Call
for complimentary listing of available
musicians.
“If you want to drink, that’s your
business. If you want to stop, that’s
ours.” Call Alcoholics Anonymous’ 24
hour number. We’re in the book.
Salt N Pepper Band - music for all
occasions and age groups - weddings,
X-mas parties, homecomings dinner
dances, conventions. Variety at its best.
Call 217/529-6651 (Member of AFM
Local 798) (tfn)
Automotive
For sale: 1952 Indian Chief, restored, exc condition, runs $35,000
OBO, serious inquiries only. Call
678-1888 (Morton) (10-2)
For sale: 1982 Iron Head HD Sportster, 1,000 CC bored out, extra parts,
new battery, custom paint, runs great
$4200 OBO. Call 369-6189 (Washington) (9-18)
For sale: 1994 Camany runs good
$1800 OBO, good tires. Call 6971421 (8-7)
For sale: 1999 Silverado Z71 with
Leer topper, new front end, new tires,
bed liner. Call 369-3493 (E Peoria)
(8-7)
For sale: Classic car - 1983
Oldsmobile Toronado, condition, very
good. Call 691-3720 (Peoria) (8-7)
For sale: 1998 chevy 3/4 ton 4x4
pickup truck new motor & transmission still under warranty 146,000 actual miles $6,500.call (309)303-3611
(Peoria) (7-17)
For sale: 1946-1955 Willys Jeep
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civilian original parts available. Call
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For sale: 2010 HHR LT 54K, PW,
PLK, remote start 10,000-8,000 asking price call evenings. Call 351-6545
(Maquon) (6-19)
For sale: 2003 Mitsubishi Diamante, low miles, leather, sun roof,
cruise, cold air, great driving car
$4495. $4495. Call 267-3876 (Marquette Hts) (6-5)
For sale: 1957 Willy’s Overland
Jeep, has 1964 motor and is stick shift,
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Call 545-2245 (Manito) (6-5)
Pets
For sale: Rabbits, New Zealand
white & mix breeders for pets,
Beedering fryers, Easter. Call 6943733 (E Peoria) (4-3)
For sale: AKC chocolate lab
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shots, dew claws removed, champion blood lines 3 females $450, 6
males $400. Available February 3.
Call 657-0492 (Washburn) (2-6)
Wanted
Wanted: lego-friends - very
reasonable - for granddaughter.
Call 697-3323 (Bartonville) (220)
For Rent
Space available for rent, monthly
rates available - motor homes, boats,
or most any type of vehicles. Large
paved lot in Metamora. Call Tim at
309-367-2713 (8-21)
RV PARKING
· Open all year
· Daily, Weekly, Monthly Rates
· Convenient I-74, 474
1-888-862-5494
1-309-692-2223
Mt. Hawley RV Park
8327 N. Knoxville
State Rte 40 · Peoria, IL 61615
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Patsy G. Hasty,
CPA, P.C.
7708 N Harker Dr.
Peoria, IL 61614
(309) 692-0348