Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber this month nominated 127 individuals to serve on state boards and commissions, including nine unionists and at least one union-signatory contractor. The Oregon Senate scheduled a confirmation vote on the appointees for Sept. 17, after this issue went to press.
The union member nominees are:
- Oregon State Building and Construction Trades executive secretary-treasurer John Mohlis, for the Energy Facility Siting Council;
- Oregon AFSCME staff representative Jaime Sorenson, for the Educators Benefit Board;
- Laborers Local 296 Apprentice Coordinator Aida Aranda, for Workers Compensation Management Labor Advisory Committee (MLAC);
- Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 290 member Blake Alexander; for Boiler Rules Board;
- American Federation of Teachers member Rondall Brown and SEIU 503 member Patricia Todd, for the Board of Eastern Oregon University;
- SEIU Local 503 member Joanna Steinman, for the Board of Southern Oregon University;
- SEIU 503 Dana Henry, for the Board of Oregon Institute of Technology; and
- American Federation of Teachers member Cornelia Paraskevas, for the Board of Western Oregon University.
Also nominated was Maurice Rahming, owner of IBEW Local 48-signatory O’Neill Electric, for the Board of Directors of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation (SAIF).
