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Working Families Party
endorses Clinton for president
The Working Families Party has
endorsed Hillary Clinton for
president. The organization sur-
veyed its membership last
month, and 68 percent favored
the endorsement, as did WFP’s
national board.
WFP was an early, strong
supporter of U.S. Sen. Bernie
Sanders’ campaign.
The Working Families Party
is a minor political party that is
backed by many labor unions.
WFP endorses and helps to elect
major party candidates who
commit to its working families
agenda. It has an active chapter
in Oregon.
Elections are about choices,
said WFP National Director Dan
Cantor. “And when we wake up
on Nov. 9, either Hillary Clinton
or Donald Trump will have been
elected president. We choose
Secretary Clinton, as Bernie did.
We make this announcement
knowing we’ll need to work to
hold her accountable to her cam-
paign’s promises. But we need
to elect her first.”
WFP said Clinton has an-
nounced good policies on many
issues that are important to the
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middle class and working poor.
But it’s not just the policy pro-
posals, Cantor said. It’s the enor-
mous power of appointments,
and not just the U.S. Supreme
Court. The National Labor Rela-
tions Board and Department of
Labor can make it harder or eas-
ier for workers to form unions.
The Environmental Protection
Agency makes critical choices
about clean water and climate
change. And 401(k) account
holders need serious regulators
at the U.S. Treasury and the Se-
curity Exchange Commission.
The Working Families Party
says GOP nominee Donald
Trump is unfit to be president,
calling him “the most dangerous
figure in mainstream American
politics since George Wallace.”
HAVING A BLAST: Ken Kogle (shooting) and his son Zack (photo left), both members of Machinists Lodge 63, and
Roofers Local 49 member Noble Hodgin (photo right) participated in the Hot August Nights clay shoot Aug. 27 spon-
sored by Sunrise Dental. The third annual event raised $4,370.57 each for Labor’s Community Service Agency and
Sunrise for Children, a program to help end child slavery. Top financial sponsors were Vancouver Energy Project, the
Alliance for Northwest Jobs and Exports, IBEW Local 48, the American Federation of Government Employees, and
seven Sunrise Dental clinics. Thirty-four people participated in the shoot. The four-man team from Roofers Local 49
captured first place with a score of 239. They donated their cash winnings back to the charity.
Portland Painters Local 10 says ‘no’ to both Hillary and Donald
At the Aug. 17 general member-
ship meeting of Portland-head-
quartered Painters Local 10,
members passed a resolution
saying the local does not sup-
port Democrats or Republicans,
which “are and have always
been strike-breaking, war-mak-
ing parties of the bosses.” The
resolution was introduced by
Wyatt McMinn, vice president
and chair of the union’s Volun-
teer Activist Committee. It
passed unanimously.
Specifically, the resolution
calls on the Painters interna-
tional union to repudiate its ear-
lier endorsement of Hillary
Clinton for president, and it calls
on the labor movement to break
from the Democratic Party and
build a “class-struggle workers
party.” See the full resolution at
bit.ly/2btnifr.
Most unions on the national
level have endorsed Clinton by
now, including the International
Union of Painters and Allied
Trades—Local 10’s parent or-
ganization, and the national
AFL-CIO has made defeating
Donald Trump a priority.
Some national unions—like
American Federation of Teach-
ers and Service Employees Inter-
national Union — were early and
enthusiastic supporters of the
Clinton campaign. Others —and
the national AFL-CIO— waited
until after the primary season had
played out and Clinton had out-
polled Bernie Sanders to clinch
the nomination.
International Association of
In Clackamas County
WE SUPPORT
SWANSON, THOMAS,
COON & NEWTON
will soon become
THOMAS, COON,
NEWTON & FROST
as we welcome our new
partner CHRIS FROST.
Jim Bernard for
County Chair
Ken Humberston for
County Commissioner
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Fire Fighters decided not to en-
dorse either Clinton or Trump,
after polling showed members
were very sharply divided. And
only one union has endorsed
Trump —the National Border
Patrol Council, which repre-
sents 18,000 U.S. Border Patrol
agents. That union is a division
of American Federation of Gov-
ernment Employees, which it-
self endorsed Clinton Dec.10.