Updated 3/6/10 6:30 am
Attention members!!
Local 424 in Edmonton Alberta, Canada is in immediate need of nearly five hundred (500) journeymen electricians. They have invited five Northwest Locals to work with them to fill this need with a fast-track temporary worker qualification process.
Spring Workdays Volunteer Event!
Members can contact Anastasia directly to sign up at ahoward@reachcdc.org or 503.208.8155.
We’ll send confirmation and project placement.
(Please do not contact families directly).
In the very near future IBEW Local 48 will be in need of a Volunteer Organizing Committee coordinator.
The VOC coordinator would work directly with office staff on a very limited part-time basis (approx. four to eight hours per month)
Duties for the VOC coordinator include but are not limited to: Developing and maintaining a list of IBEW Local 48 volunteers.
Don’t miss…Night At The Museum, Friday, April 16th Benefiting Oregon Partnership.
For over 16 years Oregon Partnership has been the premier resource for drug abuse prevention education, treatment referral and crisis intervention in Oregon. Throughout the years we have served over 300,000 Oregonians.
The need for our services has never been greater.
By Clif Davis ~
Finally we can put 2009 to rest and look forward to a new year with renewed energy and hope. While it will not be soon, better times will surely be here and we can get our members back to work. This will likely occur around early to mid summer. Until then it does not appear we are going to have any large jobs start.
Over the past year, both the federal and state governments have poured billions of dollars into economic stimulus and job-creating endeavors. There have been claims of hundreds of thousands of jobs saved or created due to these investments of the taxpayers’ money. One of the sectors that has been targeted by both President Obama and Gov.
With 11 percent of the state’s workers unemployed and facing a $727 million shortfall in the current two-year budget, Oregon was at a crossroads. State voters had two options. They could maintain their dug-in opposition to raising income taxes—the last voter-approved increase was in the 1930s.
