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Timothy Martin Flanagan / Box 22 / Lake Oswego, Oregon / 97034-0003 /
                                             phone:  (503) 697-1670  e-mail: unions@peaceresource.com

Labor Organizer: Research and Political Activism for Healthcare, Safety, Job Security, & Education

Union Vitae:                Membership, Positions, Leadership Skills Training, & Experience
 

June 1971-July 1973     Active Member, AFL-CIO, at Hussmann Refrigeration
                                     St. Louis County, Missouri  Worked strike line
Oct. 1995-Jan. 2006     Website Administrator:  PeaceResource Productions ~OO~
                                      www.UnionResource.org/      www.Peaceresource.com/
                                                   www.InternationalPeaceResource.org/   www.AlternativeNewsResource.org/
                                                  Ongoing publications:  Peace News, Issues List, Impeachment Alert,
                                                   Blogs, Activism Alerts,  Commentary, Discussion, Calendar 

January 2003                 Federation Representative, Portland Community College Faculty
                                      Federation
/American Federation of Teachers /AFL-CIO/Local 2277 
March 2003-Jan 2006   VP for Part-Timers, Sylvania  Executive Council
                                      PCCFF/AFT/AFL-CIO/Local 2277
September 2003             PCCFF Planning Retreat:  Website Proposals 
September 2003            Voting Delegate, AFL-CIO Oregon Convention  Salem, OR
                                       Laws and Legislation Committee Member
Sept. 2003-Feb. 2004    PCCFF Committee Member at PCC, Supplemental Skills
                                       Funding for Conferences, Sabbaticals, etc..
June 11-13 , 2004          AFT-Oregon Summer School  Hood River Oregon
                                      “Union History, Function, and Organization:”  
                                      Leadership Training / Dick Schwartz & others
August 6-8, 2004           AFL-CIO / LERC University of Oregon Summer School
                                      (Cluster 4-U Lead)  “Dealing with the Media”
                                      Framing the issue, using media, news releases…
Aug. 2004-Jan. 2006     Co-host and production: Fifth Monday KBOO Labor Radio
                                      Public Education Call-in Show: Union Issues, Social Change,
                                      Civic Commitment, Local and Global Implications
Jan.-Nov. 2004              2004 Presidential Campaign:  DNC Planning, AFT activism,
                                      AFL-CIO activism, Jobs with Justice Coalition work,
                                      Phone Banks for Larry Galizio and Darlene Hooley,  
                                      Media Contact:  Interview and Press release  /River Rally 
September 2004             PCCFF Planning Retreat  “Where do we go from here?”

February 25-26 2005     Labor  Education and Research Center (LERC)    
                                     
Waldport Mid-Coast Leadership School /  Bayshore Resort
                                      “Recruiting and Developing Leaders:”  Leadership, Mapping.
                                      Mentoring, Organization, etc. (Cluster 2 ?)
April 15-16 2005           Voting Delegate, AFT-Oregon Convention
                                      Eastern Oregon Economic Issues Committee
April 22-23, 2005          LERC / University of Oregon, Central Oregon Leadership School
                                      Redmond, Oregon “Building Unity and Power”
                                      (Cluster 2) “Internal Organizing and Solidarity Building
                                      Key Principles of Mobilization:  Issues, Mapping, Rallies
                                      Mentoring, Organizing, Charting, etc.
July   2005                     Canvassing for AFL-CIO Working America:  Wal-Mart
August 5-7, 2005           AFL-CIO Summer School (LERC) University of Oregon, Eugene
                                      
Plenary Session:  ”The Future of the Union Movement”
                                        (strategy, tactics, framing, social justice, values) (Cluster 4/U-lead)
                                      
Schedule 1:Writing Flyers and Leaflets,”  Schedule 2: “Gaining
                                       Community Support” (coalitions, organizing, community alliances).
                                       Schedule 3:  “Strategies to Communicate the Union’s Political Message”
Sept. 2005                      AFL-CIO Voting Delegate:  Portland, Oregon Convention Center
                                       Laws&Legislation Committee: Res. 11,12,15,16,17,21, 22,23,25
                                       Statement on the Iraq War Committee:  Resolutions 6,8,10,18,19
September 2005              PCCFF Planning Retreat:  Negotiations, Planning, Mobilization,
                                        Community Action, Communication, Activating Members
Nov. 2005-Jan 2006       Publication of COPE webpage:  PCCFF/AFT/AFL-CIO Local 2277 
December 10                   Mobilization Against the War:  Rally at the WTO
                                       
Planning for 2006           Scheduled  Classes, Schools, Conferences, etc…

January 31, 2006            KBOO Fifth Monday Labor Radio:  Oregon Politics and Unions
                                       Lane
Poncy, Larry Galizio, Rob Wagner, others…
Feb. 3-5, 2006                AFT-Oregon Winter School: 
                                        Cope 101 or Member Recruitment
February 10-11               Metro II Portland LERC School        
(or February 24-25?)           Mediation Skills (Cluster 3)

March 3-4 2006             (Mid Valley) TBA LERC Leadership School
                                       Contract Campaigns (Cluster 2)
                                       Negotiation, Mobilization, Coordination  
April 7-8, 2006               LERC Leadership School at Bend
                                       Skills for Effective Union Leadership (Cluster 3)
April 13 or 19                 LERC-PERC  OCC- Portland, Oregon
2006                               ERB Roundtable:  e-mail and organizing
                                       Bargaining Health Care Benefits
July 28-30                       LERC/ AFL-CIO Summer School at Eugene

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