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...Oregon Legislature: A lot at stake for workers
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and it would make certain pre-
vailing wage violations a Class
C felony.
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Unemployment for
locked-out workers
State Rep. Dan Rayfield (D-
Corvallis) is pushing a bill that
will help the 180 locked-out
union Steelworkers at ATI Tech-
nologies in Albany. Currently
workers who are locked out by
their employers in a labor dis-
pute — through no fault of their
own — are eligible for six
months of unemployment. Ray-
field’s bill would extend that to
12 months. That could make a
real difference for the ATI work-
ers, who believe their employer
has a strategy to starve them out
once their unemployment bene-
fits run out this month.
Several hundred supporters of a $15 minimum wage rallied at the State Capitol in Salem on Jan 14.
Inclusionary zoning
In Portland and around the state,
there’s a housing affordability
crisis under way: Rents and
home prices are fast becoming
unaffordable to many working
people. With labor support,
housing activists tried but failed
last year to get lawmakers to re-
move a ban on local govern-
ments mandating that a certain
percentage of new units be af-
fordable. But the problem has
only gotten worse. This month,
they’ll consider a bill to let cities
mandate that up to 30 percent of
new units meet a definition of
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affordable. The bill is backed by
the Oregon AFL-CIO, Oregon
AFSCME, and the Service Em-
ployees International Union.
Oregon AFL-CIO Political
Director Graham Trainor said
it’s a symptom of how rampant
income inequality has become
that lawmakers are ready to take
up such momentous issues in a
one-month off-year legislative
session.
“We can’t wait another year
for movement on the most
pressing issues facing working
people,” Trainor said.