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PAGE 2 | July 15, 2016 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS (International Standard Serial Number 0894-444X) Established in 1900 in Portland, Oregon as a voice of the la- bor movement. Published on a semi-monthly basis on the first and third Fridays of each month by the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Co. Inc., a non-profit mutual benefit corpo- ration owned by 20 unions and councils including the Ore- gon AFL-CIO. Serving more than 120 union organizations in Oregon and Southwest Washington. office location: 4275 NE Halsey St., Portland, Oregon Mailing address: P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213 Phone: (503) 288-3311 web address: http://nwlaborpress.org Editor & Manager: Michael Gutwig Associate editor: Don McIntosh office manager: Cheri Rice Printed on recycled paper, using soy-based inks, by members of Teamsters Local 747-M. sUBsCRiPtioNs: Individual subscriptions are $13.75 per year for union members, $20 a year for all others. Send a check for that amount, indicating mailing address and union affilia- tion, to P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213. For 25 or more subscriptions, group rates of $9.60 a year per person are available to trade union organizations. Call 503-288-3311 for de- tails. CoRRECtioNs: See an error? Please let us know at editor@nwlaborpress.org or by phone at 503-288-3311. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT PORTLAND, OREGON. CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOTICE: Three weeks are required for a change of address. When or- dering a change, please give your old and new addresses and the name and number of your local union. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS P.O. BOX 13150 PORTLAND, OR 97213-0150 Sanders joins CWA, AFL-CIO retiree group in endorsing Clinton Communications Workers of America (CWA) announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. The union was one of a handful that originally endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Dem- ocratic primary. At press time, Sanders, too, officially endorsed Clinton. “Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process, and I congratulate her for that,” Sanders said at a July 12 rally in New Hampshire. “She will be the Democratic nominee for president, and I in- tend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.” Earlier this month, Clinton also received an endorsement from the Alliance for Retired Americans. The Alliance is a constituency group of the AFL- CIO, with more than 4.4 million members. Robert Roach, Jr., president of the Alliance, said Clinton — who earned a lifetime score of 100 percent from the Alliance for her pro-retiree votes as a U.S. senator from New York — will HOW COOL IS THIS?: Juno, the spacecraft that is now success- fully orbiting Jupiter 540 million miles into space, was built and launched by Machinists Union members. iAM Aerospace work- ers local lodge 44 members who work at lockheed Martin in Decatur, Alabama, built it. And iAM local lodge 610 members at United launch Alliance in Cape Canaveral, Florida, launched it. Juno was launched five years ago, and reached Jupiter on independence Day. the spacecraft will soon become the first to see below Jupiter’s dense cover of clouds. Juno will stay in Jupiter’s orbit for the next 20 months, collecting data on the gas giant and sending it back to NAsA to be studied. work to rein in the uncontrolled prices of prescription drugs which are far outpacing the rate of inflation. “Hillary Clinton has pledged to strengthen and expand Social Security, and she will oppose ef- forts to cut, privatize or shift Medicare costs to retirees,” Roach said. The Alliance also said Clinton “will stop the proposed TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) be- fore it locks in patent protections and makes it more difficult for the U.S. government to reduce prescription costs in public pro- grams like Medicare.” “We know that elections are about choices,” CWA said in a press release. “The contrast be- tween Hillary Clinton and Don- ald Trump, the presumptive Re- publican nominee, couldn’t be greater.” CWA pointed out that Trump supports “right to work” laws that weaken workers’ bargaining rights, and he thinks the mini- mum wage is too high. “In a Donald Trump Admin- istration, we’d be watching our backs for four years,” CWA said. 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