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October 7, 2016 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
Sweet ways to support good jobs on Halloween
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If you want your Halloween to be all treats and
no tricks, make sure all your candy is union-made
in America. The Los Angeles County Federation
of Labor’s resource site, Labor 411, has an exten-
sive list of union-made candies. Here are some
highlights, featuring sweets made by the Bakery,
Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain
Millers and the United Food and Commercial
Workers:
5th Avenue, Abba-Zaba, Almond Roca, Baby Ruth,
Big Hunk, Bit-O-Honey, Butterfinger, Cadbury,
Candy House Buttons, Caramello, Clark Bar, Dum
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Prices with those you
See on TV
Nancy D. Anderson
Enrolled Agent
www.nancydanderson.com
503-244-2577
Paula
Dums, Ghirardelli Chocolate, Gimbal’s Fine Can-
dies, Hershey’s Kisses, Hershey’s Hugs, Hershey’s
Nuggets, Jawbreakers, Jelly Belly, Kit Kat, Laffy
Taffy, LOOK!, Mallo Cups, Malted Milk Balls,
Mary Jane, Mighty Malts, Necco Wafers, Red
Vines, Rocky Road, Rolo, Russell Stover, See’s
Candies, Sky Bar, Smarties, Snaps, Sour Patch Kids,
Sour Punch, Super Ropes, Toblerone, Tootsie Rolls,
Trolli, U-NO, York Peppermint Patties, and Zagnut.
Boycott Note: Until a Bakers Union strike is
resolved, don’t purchase Just Born candies. Prod-
ucts include Marshmallow Peeps, Mike and Ike,
Hot Tamales, and Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews.
BOLI permanently debars Cornerstone Janitorial
for wage theft on numerous public works projects
The Oregon Bureau of Labor
and Industries has permanently
debarred Cornerstone Janitorial
Services and owner Sang In
Nam from doing public works
projects in the state. In addition,
Sang agreed to pay $144,000 in
liquidated damages to 46 under-
paid workers.
BOLI has already collected
nearly $200,000 in unpaid
wages for Cornerstone Janitorial
employees who were working
on public projects. Nam is a Ko-
rean immigrant, and his com-
pany qualified as a minority
contractor. Many government
projects require minority set-
aside contracts.
Cornerstone did a lot of work
cleaning up construction sites
for large general contractors
such as Hoffman Construction
and Skanska. BOLI began in-
vestigating Cornerstone after re-
ceiving two wage complaints
from Hoffman Construction.
BOLI found that workers
were not paid at prevailing wage
rates on a series of 16 taxpayer-
funded education and health
care projects in Portland, Eu-
gene, Stayton, Junction City,
Salem, Keizer, Philomath, Ver-
nonia, Corvallis, Monmouth
and Wilsonville. Some of those
projects included Portland Com-
munity College, the Casanova
expansion at the University of
Oregon, two Oregon State Hos-
pitals, and the Vernonia K-12
school project.
“Our agency is committed to
holding businesses accountable
so that workers receive every
dollar they’ve earned,” Labor
Commissioner Brad Avakian
said in a press statement.
It is only the second time in
the agency’s history that it issued
a lifetime ban. BOLI has 56
businesses, contractors, and in-
dividuals on the debarment list.
Avakian urges workers and
contractors to contact BOLI’s
Prevailing Wage Rate Unit if
they believe they have been
cheated out of wages. Call 971-
673-0839 or email pwremail@
boli.state. or.us.
Union launches boycott
of all Trump properties
UNITE HERE has called for a
nationwide boycott of all proper-
ties owned by Republican presi-
dential nominee Donald Trump.
The boycott stems from Trump’s
Las Vegas hotel defying labor
law and refusing to bargain with
UNITE HERE. The national
AFL-CIO supports the boycott.
Some 1,500 workers at the
Las Vegas hotel voted last De-
cember to join Local 226 and
Bartenders Local 165. Trump
challenged the election. The Na-
tional Labor Relations Board
ruled it to be valid, certified the
unions, and ordered hotel man-
agement to bargain with the two
locals. Management thus far has
refused.
Boycott events started at
Trump’s L.A. golf course and
occurred at his hotels in San
Francisco and Honolulu on
Sept. 29, and at the Chicago
Trump Tower on Oct. 1.
“Enough is enough,” said
UNITE HERE President D.
Taylor. “While Donald Trump
waged an indefensible anti-
worker and anti-immigrant pres-
idential campaign, the workers
at his Las Vegas hotel fought for
dignity and respect in their
workplace. They voted to union-
ize, they won, and now the law
says Trump must negotiate.”