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About Northwest labor press. (Portland , Ore.) 1987-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 2011)
Labor agency appeals to unions for funds to buy holiday meals Labor’s Community Service Agency (LCSA) is appealing to the labor com- munity for financial contributions to sustain its holiday dinner program. The program helped 170 unem- ployed union families put Thanksgiv- ing dinner on the table last month. That’s more than double what the agency did last year — for both Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. “We have blown right through our Holiday Dinner Program budget for November and December with Thanks- giving alone,” said LCSA Director Vickie Burns. “I believe we could easily quadruple our previous record of out- reach to unemployed families if we can raise the funds to do so.” Burns said the agency needs to raise $10,000 over the next few weeks in or- der to provide holiday dinners for un- employed union families in December. Burns said LCSA has not seen any- thing comparable to this level of need in the 18 years she has been there. “When combined with budget cuts and dwindling financial support for social service programs at every turn, the out- comes of economic hardship resemble those not seen since the Great Depres- sion,” she said. To donate to the Holiday Dinner Program, send checks to: Labor’s Community Service Agency, 1125 SE Madison, Suite 103, Portland, OR 97214. ...Laborers Union warns City of fiscal emergency (From Page 1) City’s habit of hiring nonunion con- tractors and temporary and seasonal employees. Next, maintenance worker Farrell Richartz from the street cleaning depart- ment described the work he and fellow union members do — cleaning up leaves, preventing flooding, and acting as first responders during snow and ice events. Cuts to those services, Richartz said, would constitute an emergency. Last up for the union was Father Bob Krueger of St. Francis Catholic parish, who spoke against the contin- ued use of prisoner labor in the parks. Of the five elected officials, three re- sponded. City Commissioner Nick Fish — who heads the Parks Bureau — thanked members for the work they did over the previous few days cleaning up Chapman and Lownsdale parks. [Mayor Adams ordered police to forcibly remove the Occupy Portland encampment Nov. 13. Occupy supporters had begun cleanup, but after the eviction, fences were in- stalled around the entire two-block area, guarded by police 24-hours-a-day, which prevented occupiers from fulfill- ing their promise to clean up.] “This is not the right forum to have a discussion about inmate labor,” Fish said, addressing Krueger. “We as a Council would not permit any inmate labor to displace an existing bargaining unit job.” Rather, Fish said, inmates supple- ment the City’s work force, and get a job skill and time off their sentence for doing so. Fish added that he wants to find ways to transition them into gainful employment with the City of Portland. Commissioner Amanda Fritz wanted to add that the number of “con- tract” employees in an unspecified bu- reau of Fish’s had declined from over 100 to under 40 over the last two years. Fritz linked that to the City’s commit- ment to family-wage jobs. 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