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Support Labor’s
Community Service
Agency by shopping
at Fred Meyer
Basic Rights Oregon
unionizes with AFSCME
The gay civil rights group
voluntarily recognizes a
union for its 15
employees
Portland-based gay civil rights
group Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) is
now a union employer. BRO’s board of
directors agreed in mid-July to recog-
nize Oregon AFSCME (American
Federation of State, County, and Mu-
nicipal Employees) after all 15 staff
members signed union authorization
cards. Most of Oregon AFSCME’s
nearly 25,000 members are state,
county, and municipal employees, but
the union also represents workers at a
handful of non-profit organizations.
BRO and Oregon AFSCME have
worked together closely for years on
political campaigns, and BRO’s mis-
sion — to bring about equality for les-
bian, gay, bisexual and transgender
Oregonians — is a cause Oregon AF-
SCME has long championed.
BRO’s political manager, Amy
Herzfeld, also has union ties, as a for-
mer state director for Working Amer-
ica — AFL-CIO’s at-large community
affiliate. BRO board member David
Cutler is on staff at SEIU Local 49.
And BRO board member Nancy
Haque is a former organizer for the
workers rights group Jobs with Justice.
Executive director Jeana Frazzini
said the move to unionize is consistent
with the group’s values, and pledged to
meet in good faith to negotiate a first
union contract.
Musicians Union hall goes solar
American Federation of Musicians Local 99 is installing a 10 KW solar array
on the roof of its Portland union hall, thanks to a federal tax subsidy and a State
of Oregon pilot program of “feed-in tariffs.”
The installation will be performed by Synchro Solar using a subcontractor
signatory to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 48.
Under a feed-in tariff system, the utility, in this case PGE, pays a fixed, above-
market rate for electricity fed into the grid from the solar array.
To celebrate the installation, Local 99 is planning a party Aug. 17 from 3 to 7
p.m. featuring organic food, labor ballads, children’s games, and videos and pic-
tures of the installation. Event co-sponsors include the Portland Jobs with Justice
Climate Jobs Committee and the Northwest Oregon Labor Council.
Celebrating Local 36 with a lager
Attorney Roger Worthington built a career out of representing workers
exposed to asbestos, including his own father. So when he founded Worthy
Brewing of Bend, Oregon, he wanted to find a way to say thanks to the union
that gave him a start: Portland-based Insulators Local 36. He directed his
brewmaster to come up with a red lager worthy of the association. And on
July 16 he hosted a catered launch party for Local 36 members and retirees.
Pictured above, Local 36 Business Manager Stan Danielson (left) and
Worthington hold the finished product. “I’ll never forget how it felt to me as
a 24-year-old kid representing the titans of industry, the greatest Americans,
who helped us win wars, build ships, build aluminum plants, build paper mills,
bridges, schools, and hospitals … and breweries,” Worthington told Local 36
members. “It’s been a privilege and honor to represent these folks.”
Machinists to host golf
fundraiser for guide dogs
The 26th annual Machinists District
W24 golf tournament benefiting Guide
Dogs of America will be held Monday,
Sept. 8 at Heron Lakes Golf Club in
Portland.
Registration begins at 7 a.m., with a
shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Entry fee is
$125 per person
Hole sponsorships are still available,
ranging from $250 to $1,000.
For more information, contact John
Hall at 503-449-0969, John Kleiboeker
at 503-863-7304, or Stacy Breunig at
503-702-9879.
Union members can help fund pro-
grams for Labor’s Community Service
Agency (LCSA) using their Fred
Meyer Rewards Card.
Fred Meyer, a union employer, will
donate $2.5 million to non-profits in
Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and
Idaho annually through a new program
it calls Community Rewards. All you
have to do is link your Rewards Card
and use it when you shop at Fred
Meyer. Here’s how it works:
Link your Fred Meyer Rewards
Card online to LCSA (number 91427)
at www.fredmeyer.com/communityre-
wards.
Whenever you use your Rewards
Card when shopping at Fred Meyer,
you’ll be helping Labor’s Community
Service Agency earn a donation. That’s
because at the end of each quarter, Fred
Meyer will make a donation to partici-
pating non-profits based on their per-
centage of spending as it relates to the
total spending of all participating Fred
Meyer Community Reward organiza-
tions.
And the great thing about it is you
still get to keep and use all of your Fred
Meyer rewards points, fuel points and
rebates.
Most purchases qualify for Com-
munity Rewards, but some items are
not eligible, including prescriptions,
lottery tickets, fuel, tobacco and gift
cards, to name a few.
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