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
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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.
Adams kept his response succinct:
“Thanks for your work every day, and
be careful out there.”
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