MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 4, 2021
Members of PCC have elected two grocery workers to the board of trustees.
Donna Rasmussen and Laurae McIntyre both members of UFCW 21, which represents PCC workers were two of five candidates vying for three open PCC board positions. Workers at the Edmonds PCC staged a protest outside the store April 14, accusing PCC of distributing one-sided election materials favoring their preferred candidates, which include Metier Brewing CEO Rodney Hines and two incumbents Brad Brown and Catherine Walker both of whom are retired REI executives.
According to this email link supplied by UFCW 21, the final election winners for the three open positions on the nine-person board were Hines, Rasmussen and McIntyre.
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PCC Community Markets employees demonstrate April 14 outside the Edmonds store. (Photos courtesy of UFCW 21.)
About a dozen PCC Community Markets employees gathered outside the Edmonds store Wednesday afternoon to protest recent allegations that the Seattle-based food cooperative’s board is discouraging members from voting for two board candidates who are also PCC grocery workers,
The workers gathered outside the store at 9803 Edmonds Way, waving signs and handing out flyers stating that the co-op’s board is interfering with the upcoming board election.
The PCC employees running for election Donna Rasmussen and Laurae McIntyre – are two of five candidates vying for three PCC board positions. According to Rasmussen and McIntyre, the board has been distributing one-sided election materials favoring their preferred candidates, which include Metier Brewing CEO Rodney Hines and two incumbents Brad Brown and Catherine Walk
Columbia City-based cycling nonprofit Bike Works has announced that they will host an online trivia event on January 21 st at 5:30 PM featuring an impressive panel of cycling champions: Heidi Franz, Andy Hampsten, Jennie Reed, and Nelson ‘The Cheetah’ Vails!
Franz is a professional racing cyclist, currently riding for the UCI Continental Team Rally Cycling. She resides in West Seattle.
Hampsten, professional road bicycle racer and winner of the 1988 Giro d Italia, was inducted into the US Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2017.
Reed is a World and US champion track cyclist. She has competed in 13 World Championships, and won a silver medal in the 2012 Olympics in the Team Pursuit. She is a King County resident, hailing from Redmond.