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August 20, 2010 Volume 111 Number 16
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UFCW marches for justice in
The Dalles
Non-food employees at The Dalles Fred Meyer voted Nov. 16, 2007,
to join UFCW Local 555, and are still waiting for a contract.
[Local
555 President Dan Clay, left, and Secretary-Treasurer Jeff Anderson
(on drums) lead about 200 people through the streets of The Dalles.]
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Pelosi
touts retrofit program as stimulus success
These days, the most popular words in the Democratic Party political
vocabulary are “green” and “jobs.” Aug.
15, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was in Portland highlighting
a program that combines the two.
SEIU's
new leader warns of ‘coordinated attack’ on public workers
At Local
503's biennial General Council meeting, about 300 delegates interacted
with their union’s new national leader, heard a farewell from
outgoing executive director Leslie Frane, picketed a nearby Bank of
America branch, and heard from three candidates seeking to succeed
Frane.
Oregon
Working Families Party runs Senate candidate
The Oregon Working Families Party — a union-backed minor
political party — has set a course for the November general
election. The party is cross-nominating 37 Democrats and one Republican,
and running its own candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat
Ron Wyden.
I-5 Bridge Sponsors Council favors 10-lane span
Labor, business, and environmental leaders applauded a unanimous
vote by the Columbia River Crossing Project Sponsors Council to
replace the aging Interstate 5 bridge between Oregon and Washington
with a new 10-lane span.
Fate
of Portland’s ‘voter-owned elections’ in hands of
voters
Portland voters will decide in November whether to continue the
city’s “voter-owned elections” system of campaign
finance.
Several labor organizations are supporting the program’s continuation,
on the grounds that it reduces the influence of big money in local
politics
Washington
State Labor Council issues new set of endorsements
Democratic congressional candidate Denny Heck was endorsed by
the Washington State Labor Council at its Constitutional Convention
in Tacoma Aug. 11.
Holliday
re-elected business manager of Operating Engineers Local 701
Mark
Holliday has been re-elected to a sixth three-year term as business
manager/financial secretary of Operating Engineers Local 701 after
turning back a challenge from Dan Wagoner. The vote was 875-348.
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