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April 3, 2015 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
OREGON LEGISLATURE
Senate President says he won’t allow vote on minimum wage increase
SALEM — Oregon Senate
President Peter Courtney (D-
Salem) told a group of Southern
Oregon business leaders March
26 that he won’t allow a vote on
increasing the minimum wage.
The Oregon AFL-CIO is
leading a campaign to raise the
minimum wage this year, and
the issue is at the top of a five-
point “fair shot” agenda being
pushed by a coalition of labor,
civil rights and community
groups.
Courtney is the state senator
for District 11, representing
Woodburn, Gervais, and part of
Salem. Running for re-election
last year, he told the Oregon
AFL-CIO he was in favor of
raising the minimum wage, and
got its endorsement.
But on March 26, 40 to 50
members of the Klamath Falls,
Grants Pass, and Medford
chambers of commerce were at
the State Capitol for a five-hour
meeting with House and Senate
leaders. Courtney told them a
minimum wage bill won’t make
it to the Senate floor, according
to a report in the Medford Mail
Tribune.
“I’m not going to do mini-
mum wage this session,” Court-
ney reportedly said. “I’m a De-
Paid sick days bill passes committee
SALEM — On March 25, the
Oregon Senate Workforce Com-
mittee voted 3-2 in favor of a
bill mandating state-wide paid
sick leave. SB 454 would re-
quire employers with six or
more employees to provide up
to five days of paid sick time
each year. Workers could use
the sick time to recover at home
from a contagious illness, for a
doctors appointment, or care for
a sick child. The Committee
vote was along party lines, with
Republicans voting against it.
The bill now goes to the Joint
Ways and Means Committee for
further consideration. The vote
came five weeks after a joint
hearing on the bill at which over
300 people filled a hearing room
and several overflow rooms.
mocrat and that has not en-
deared me to my family … I’m
going to do the sick-leave thing,
but I’m not going to do mini-
mum wage … That’s a tough
statement to make, but I made it
here … I will deal with the
heat.”
$15 minimum
wage rally April 15
Activists will rally in Portland for
a $15 minimum wage and a union
Wednesday, April 15, from noon
to 2 p.m.
Workers from Portland State
University, city employees, jani-
tors, care providers and others
will meet at O’Bryant Square on
Southwest 9th Avenue between
Washington and Stark Streets at
noon. Organizers will hold a brief
rally before marching to City Hall
and Portland State University.
The event is sponsored in part
by Laborers Local 483, Oregon
AFSCME Council 75, Service
Employees Local 503, and Jobs
with Justice. For more informa-
tion, go to Facebook and search
for “Fight for 15 PDX.”
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The change-of-heart was
news to the Oregon AFL-CIO,
the lead group for the coalition
working to raise the minimum
wage.
Courtney’s office had not re-
turned a call from the Labor
Press by the time this issue went
to press.
The Oregon House is consid-
ering three minimum wage bills
this year. House Bill 2009, spon-
sored by State Rep. Rob Nosse,
would raise the minimum from
its current $9.25 to $11.50 in
2016, $13.25 in 2017, and $15
in 2018. HB 2008, sponsored by
State Rep. Margaret Doherty,
would raise the minimum to
$10.90 in 2016 and $12.20 in
2017. And HB 2004 would let
local governments set a higher
minimum wage than the state-
wide minimum.
The Oregon House Labor
Committee will hold a hearing
on all three bills April 13 from 6
to 8 p.m. in Hearing Room F.
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Opponents of NAFTA-style
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them to take a public stand
against Fast Track, a proce-
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passage of trade agreements
like the Trans-Pacific Partner-
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