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March 2, 2007 Volume 108 Number 5
News
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LOBBYIST
for LABOR
AFSCME’s
Mary Botkin has walked the halls of Salem for 24 years on behalf
of public employees.
[Left,
Mary Botkin testifies at a hearing on a bill to allow 911 dispatchers
to retire early.]
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Freightliner
counts down to mass layoff at Swan Island
The
last Freightliner truck ever to be made in Portland will roll off
a Swan Island assembly line March 29, at which point 802 local union
workers will lose family-wage jobs.
AFSCME
files for union election at PDC
Non-supervisory employees at the Portland Development Commission
took a step closer to forming a union Feb. 23 when representatives
from Oregon Council 75 of the American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees filed for an election with the Oregon Employment
Relations Board.
Union
members ask Portland to take anti-sweatshop action
The Portland Sweatfree
Campaign, backed by 13 local unions and the
Northwest Oregon Labor Council, held a noon-hour rally
outside Portland City Hall on Presidents Day. Oregon Labor
Commissioner Dan Gardner and others called on the city to pass a local
anti-sweatshop ordinance.
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