SERVING ORGANIZED LABOR IN OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON SINCE 1900
NORTHWEST
LABOR
PRESS
VOLUME 118, NUMBER 16
IN THIS ISSUE
LABOR DAY IN PORTLAND Lots to do at Oaks Park on
Labor Day. | Page 4
OREGON AFSCME State workers union reaches
tentative agreement. | Page 22
Stacy Chamberlain Q&A p.6 Meeting Notices p.15
PORTLAND, OREGON
AUGUST 18, 2017
A DAY FOR PICNICS
BEND — Noon to 3:30 p.m., Pioneer Park, NW Wall St.,
Bend. There will be food, drinks, and live music. Bring
your family! Invite your friends! Sponsored by the
Central Oregon Central Labor Chapter.
Every year on Labor Day, union members
come together to celebrate family and
community. Here are this year’s events.
PORTLAND — The region’s largest Labor Day picnic
takes place at Oaks Amusement Park in Southeast
Portland, sponsored by the Northwest Oregon Labor
Council, AFL-CIO.
FOOD-DRINK-FUN
Members and their
families from dozens Deluxe ride bracelets $10.50
Food/drink scrip
50¢
of unions – up to
20,000 people – turn Burger + chips 3 scrip
Hot dog + chips 2 scrip
out for barbecue,
Chili
1 scrip
games, carnival rides, Beer
4 scrip
raffle drawings,
Pop
2 scrip
music, and a chance Water
1 scrip
to hear from local
politicians. The picnic FREE SHUTTLE TRAIN!
runs 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. There will be a kids’ scavenger hunt, and a blood
drive challenge. Politicians take the stage at 1 p.m.
For the first time in several years, all of Oregon’s
Congressional delegation will be invited to the
stage to speak. [The four Oregon Democrats who
supported Trade Promotion Authority (Fast Track)
legislation in 2015 had their invitations rescinded for
two years.]
Free shuttle train: Labor Day is the busiest day of
COWLITZ-WAHKIAKUM COUNTIES —10 a.m. to 3
p.m., Toutle River RV Resort, 150 Happy Trails, Castle
Rock, Washington, Exit 52 off I-5. Hamburgers, hot
dogs, and barbecued ribs will be provided. Bring your
favorite side dish to share. There will be music,
swimming, kids’ games, a bouncy house, a giant
croquet tournament, and more.
LABOR
DAY
Monday, September 4
the year at Oaks Park. To help union members avoid
traffic jams and parking headaches, the Northwest
Oregon Labor Council has made arrangements with
the Oregon Pacific Railroad for a free shuttle train into
Oaks Park. The train boards at Southeast 4th and
Caruthers, near OMSI. There is plenty of street parking
near the McLoughlin Overpass and McCoy Millwork,
and the Portland Opera will open its parking lot —
yellow spaces only. The pin code for the gate will be
1895. The 5-mile shuttle runs from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. (last train). For more information, call the
Northwest Oregon Labor Council at 503-235-9444.
ASHLAND — 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Emigrant Lake, Picnic
Shelter D, 5505 Highway 66, Ashland. Lunch will be
served at noon. Vehicle fee of $4. Sponsored by the
Southern Oregon Central Labor Chapter.
EUGENE/SPRINGFIELD — Splash Pool Picnic Shelter,
6100 Thurston Road, Springfield. Noon to 3:30 p.m.
Hamburgers, hot dogs, live music, door prizes. Please
bring a side dish to share. Sponsored by the Lane
County Central Labor Chapter.
NORTH BEND/COOS BAY — There is no picnic this
year.
SALEM — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Waterfront Park, 230
Front St., SE, Salem. A barbecue, side dishes and soft
drinks will be provided from 11:10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Guest speakers from 11-11:30 a.m. Cost: two non-
perishable food items per person, or $2 per person for
the Marion/Polk Food Bank. Sponsored by Marion-
Polk-Yamhill Central Labor Chapter. Contact Will
Music at 503-598-6344 or
williamafmusic@gmail.com
BUY UNION
Union-made beer
OREGON CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL GROUNDBREAKING. Union officials took part in a
groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 4 for the new Hyatt Regency Portland hotel adjacent to the Oregon Con-
vention Center. The $244 million, 600-room hotel, is scheduled to open in 2019. The hotel project is expected
to create more than 2,000 construction jobs, and 950 permanent hotel and hospitality jobs. Hyatt signed a
neutrality agreement with UNITE HERE Local 8, which means all the new jobs could be union. Separately,
Portland Prosper, the city’s urban renewal agency, will build a 442-stall parking garage on the property start-
ing this winter. For all the details, turn to Page 19.
By Don McIntosh
A hundred years ago, beer made
by American union members
came marked with a union logo.
Today, that Brewery Workers
logo is ancient history, along
with the union that created it.
There are union-made beers, but
you have to be a well-informed
consumer to know which ones.
Unfortunately, most official
union beer lists aren’t even re-
motely accurate. The Union La-
bel Department of the national
AFL-CIO has just one employee
today, and relies on affiliated
unions to update its “union-
made” lists. The biggest union in
the beer industry, the Teamsters,
is not an AFL-CIO affiliate. La-
bor 411, a Los Angeles based or-
ganization, has attempted to fill
the void of information about
union-made products, but its
beer list hasn’t been updated in
years, and the researcher who
produced it is no longer there.
The AFL-CIO member benefits
program UnionPlus also pub-
lishes a union-made beer list, but
gets its information second-
hand, from Labor411.
All three lists have some ma-
jor flaws. The biggest is that they
sometimes include beers on the
list because the company em-
ploys some union members
somewhere. Sometimes that’s
less than a dozen operating engi-
neers, maintaining equipment at
otherwise nonunion breweries.
That’s not what consumers have
in mind when they think
“Union-Made.” So the Labor
Press has put together its own
list, with two categories: union-
made, and union-maybe.
Why should we buy union-
made? It’s not to reward union
Turn to Page 20