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PCPA Executive Board Meeting
36th Annual PCPA Convention
Sept. 14, 2003
The meeting was called to order at 9:00 AM at the
Columbia River Double Tree Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
In attendance were: Joe Lucas, President; Lou
Loveridge, 1st Vice President; John Johnson, 2nd Vice President; Arne Auvinen,
Secretary-Treasurer and his assistant, Bonnie Eckert-McHenry; Delegates: Al
Perisho, LA/Long Beach; Cleophas Williams, San Francisco; Ken Swicker, Longview;
Barbara Lewis, Alternate, Columbia River; Joe Jakovac, Southern Oregon; Phil
Lelli, Tacoma; and Paul McCabe, Seattle. Canada was represented by Bill Duncan,
Van-Isle Ports and Joe Schmiller, Vancouver. Lois Stranahan, Columbia River, was
unable to attend because of illness. Harry Black and Frank Graham representing
Australia's MUA National Veterans' Association were our honored guests.
Reports were made by the various delegates:
Vancouver,Canada is having contract negotiation problems and there has been a
98% strike vote; Cleophas Williams spoke on the Harry Bridges Memorial planned
in San Francisco; Seattle has created a second dock for Alaska Cruise Ships and
it appears that the port will lose more and more space to non cargo docks in the
future.
George Romero, International Welfare Officer,
spoke calling attention to the post-contract internal conflict in the PMA with
the resulting probability that we can't rely on them to keep their word.
We need to be
fully prepared for the next negotiation
particularly
on the health care issue and how it will be affected by whatever National Health
Care Congress might put together by then.
PCPA Constitutional changes were the main business
of the Convention. The proposal was to split the Secretary/Treasurer office and
eliminate the office of 2nd Vice President maintaining a slate of four titled
officers: President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. This proposal was
directed to the main body for vote. Also
directed to the main body were nine resolutions regarding such things as
National Prescription Drugs, Support of the Alliance of Retired Americans,
raising the amount of retirees' life insurance from $5,000 to $10,000, overturning
NAFTA, Monitoring Long Term Care and Assisted Living and opposing Patriot I
& II.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Paul McCabe
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