scenes from union-sponsored
picnics in salem and bend, ore. on
LABOR DAY
Salem’s Riverfront Park was the site of the
5th annual Labor Day Picnic sponsored by
Marion-Polk-Yamhill Counties Central
Labor Council. In Bend, the Central Oregon
Central Labor Council hosted a gathering at
Pioneer Park.
Labor attorney Frost
recognized by OTLA
Christine Frost,
an attorney with the
law firm of Swanson
Thomas Coon &
Newton, received the
“Doug Swanson
Outstanding Work-
ers’ Compensation
Attorney” award
CHRISTINE
from the Oregon
FROST
Trial Lawyers Asso-
ciation (OTLA) at their annual con-
vention in August.
The award is presented when an
OTLA member has exhibited the qual-
ities and values that Swanson personi-
fied throughout his life. He is remem-
bered for his dedication to the workers’
compensation system and his commit-
ment to injured workers.
In accepting the award at the lunch-
eon attended by Oregon litigators and
Oregon House and Senate representa-
tives, Frost recapped her legal experi-
ence as staff attorney for the Oregon
Workers’ Compensation Board and as
an injured workers’ attorney. She also
summarized her current efforts to en-
act legislation to correct current defi-
ciencies in the remedies available to in-
jured workers, which limit injured
workers’ access to justice.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
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