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UNITE HERE, Plumbers and Fitters Union, endorse Obama for president The Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union (UA) and UNITE HERE have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the 2008 presidential primary race. The UA is the first national union from the AFL-CIO to back Obama, who won the Iowa caucuses earlier this month and came in a close second in last week’s New Hampshire pri- mary. The UA represents 340,000 members. UNITE HERE is the first national union from the Change to Win labor federation to endorse Obama. The union represents 450,000 hotel, restaurant, laundry, culinary and ap- parel workers. “Our organization and our mem- bers will do everything in our power to see that Barack Obama reaches the White House this fall, because we know he will bring working Ameri- cans with him,” said UNITE HERE General President Bruce Raynor. UA President William Hite said Obama “has always fought for work- ing people throughout his career and will do the best job of bringing badly needed change to Washington.” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D- N.Y.), who narrowly won the New Hampshire primary, has been en- dorsed by 12 AFL-CIO unions, in- cluding AFSCME, the American Fed- eration of Teachers, the Amalgamated Transit Union, the Bricklayers, the Letter Carriers, the Machinists, the Office and Professional Employees, the Painters and Allied Trades, the Sheet Metal Workers, the Theatrical Stage Employees, and the United Transportation Union. IAM’s endorsement of Clinton in the Democratic primaries was accom- Chase is backing union members with the Union Plus ® Mortgage Program — a home purchase and refinancing program exclusively for union members, their parents and children. • FREE Mortgage Assistance Benefit If you are unemployed or disabled. • A wide variety of mortgages Choose from fixed rate, adjustable-rate, and low- or no-closing costs options. • Special Lending First-time homebuyer and less-than-perfect credit programs. • Savings on closing costs Member-only savings on new purchases and refinance. panied by an endorsement of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the Republican primaries. Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses. Three national AFL-CIO unions are supporting former Sen. John Ed- wards (D-N.C.) in the Democratic pri- maries. They are the Mine Workers, Transport Workers and United Steel- workers. The Carpenters Union, an af- filiate of Change to Win, also has en- dorsed Edwards. Neither the AFL-CIO or Change to Win federation has made an endorse- ment for the primaries. LERC 30th anniversary party slated The Labor Education and Research Center of the University of Oregon is planning a 30th anniversary celebration Friday, March 30, at the Oregon Con- vention Center in Portland. Gov. Ted Kulongoski has been in- vited to speak, along with UO President Dave Frohnmayer and Ruth Milkman, director of the UCLA Institute for Re- search on Labor and Employment. A reception and dinner are sched- uled for 6 to 9 p.m. Preceding the din- ner, from 2 to 5 p.m., will be a sympo- sium entitled, “Creating Labor- Community Alliances That Work.” At the evening celebration LERC also will launch its new Strategic Train- ing and Action Research (STAR) Fund. Net proceeds from the event will bene- fit the fund, which was started through an estate gift from Robert and Cloy- dene Uhrbrand. The fund will be used in part to provide more training pro- grams and to bring visiting union lead- ers to Oregon. LERC’s hopes to raise $30,000 at the anniversary dinner. Donations to the STAR Fund are tax deductible and range from $100 to $5,000. A $5,000 “Visionary” contribution includes 16 anniversary dinner tickets and recogni- tion in the dinner program. A $100 “Ac- tivist” contribution includes a dinner ticket and recognition in the dinner pro- gram. Dinner tickets are $60 each. For more information about the an- niversary dinner and/or the STAR Fund, call LERC at 541-346-5054. It all adds up to more home-buying power. Contact your local Union Plus Mortgage Specialist Rain Forest Boots Made in America! PAGE 10 BARGAIN COUNTER Free classified ads to subscribers DEADLINE: Friday prior to publication Published 1st and 3rd Fridays Now accepting e-mails Send to: Michael492@comcast.net Mail to: NWLP, PO Box 13150, Portland OR 97213 (Please include union affiliation) • 15-20 words • No commercial or business ads • 1 ad per issue • Please print legibly • Sorry, we cannot accept ads over the phone Ads MUST include area code or they will not be published Automotive GRANDMA’S CAR, ‘92 Cad. Sdn, 4 dr. 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