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Burton White, of Tigard, a retired union official, labor educator, and mediator, passed away Feb. 14 of complications following a stroke. He was 90.
White was director of labor relations for the Oregon Nurses Association from 1979 to 1985. Prior to that, from 1969-75, he was director of economic and general welfare for the California Nurses Association.
He started working as an arbitrator and mediator in 1988. He was the first executive director of Partners in Construction Cooperation (PICC), a “cooperation committee” in the construction industry that included workers, contractors, financiers, and designers. Its first project in 1988 was the Powell Valley Retirement Center in Gresham.
By Don McIntosh
Oregon’s prevailing wage law results in 8% higher wages for workers on public construction projects, but doesn’t increase the cost of the projects, according to a new study co-authored by Frank Manzo of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and Lina Stepick of the University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center (LERC). That might seem counter-intuitive, until you get to the likely explanations.
First, the labor cost for the hourly construction workers covered by the law is a small share of total project cost about 25% in Oregon, according to the study authors. Materials, equipment, fuel, rental costs, management salaries, taxes, licenses, etc. make up the other 75%. So even if craft workers get paid 10% more, that equates to 2.5% of project cost.
By Marcus Widenor
Today, Seattle is a hub for the high-tech global economy. But at the turn of the 20th century, Spokane occupied a similar place in American capitalism. With seven freight and passenger lines converging there, it was the the busiest terminal west of Chicago. Spokane connected the fields of California, the forests of Oregon and Washington, and the mines of Idaho and Montana to the rest of the country. Workers mustered out for jobs and wintered there, creating a culture steeped in the radicalism of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which organized them without regard for their skin color or national origins, unlike the conservative American Federation of Labor.
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