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PAGE 8 | September 15, 2017 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Clay, Anderson, re-elected to lead United Food and Commercial Workers Dan Clay and Jeff Anderson were re-elected president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555. The Tigard-based union is the largest private sector union in the state with over 23,000 members. In mail-in ballots counted Sept. 7, Clay gathered 75 per- cent of the vote against chal- lenger Rex Dominguez. An- derson captured 74 percent of the vote against chal- lenger Debbie Reed. Clay and An- derson are serv- ing their fourth term in office, Dan Clay Jeff Anderson having run as a slate s i n c e 2 0 0 8 , when they were first elected. Clay, 40, has worked for UFCW Local 555 since May 2000. He started in a temporary position as a mem- bership coordinator before mov- ing on to jobs as an organizer and union representative. Anderson, 59, has been a member of the union for 41 years. He started in the grocery industry at age 14 in Dallas, Oregon. He joined the union at age 18 after taking a job at a Fred Meyer store in Salem. The union hired him as an organizer in 1986. Since then he has worked in nearly every depart- ment of the local, including or- ganizing director, director of legislative and committee af- fairs, and assistant director of collective bargaining. Terms of office are three years. NATIONAL Trumka says hope of working with Trump has faded When Donald Trump moved into the White House in January, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka hoped that labor leaders like himself could find common ground with the new president. Seven months later, Trumka says there is little hope left. “I think a significant amount of the optimism has faded away, because we haven’t seen an in- frastructure bill, we haven’t seen the renewal of manufacturing, we haven’t seen the things that we were hopeful about that we could work with him on,” Trumka said Aug. 30 at a break- fast hosted by the Christian Sci- ence Monitor. “After the election, they reached out and we reached out. We talked. What I said to them is that we will judge you by what you do. If you do things good for working people, we will support them. If you do things bad for working people, we will oppose you.” Trumka said the White House has done little that his union fed- eration would approve of so far. “You had two factions in the White House. You had one that actually had some of the policies that we would have supported on trade, on infrastructure, but [they] turned out to be racist,” Trumka said. “On the other hand, you had people who weren’t racist, but they were Wall Streeters,” Trumka said. “And the Wall Streeters have come to dominate the Administration, and moved his agenda back to everything that I think they fought against in the election.” ONLINE EXTRA Watch AFL-CIO President Trumka’s full presentation on the future of the la- bor movement, relations with Trump, and NAFTA renegotiations, at C-SPAN: http://cs.pn/2f39D2H World Series Party The biggest battle in baseball is almost here! The World Series is a storied tradition in the U.S. and it must be celebrated properly. Labor 411 has some awesome union- made party fare to replicate the ballpark experience. And yeah, we can say it, this spread is a home run. Hot Dogs Ball Park Franks Butterball Farmland Farmer John Hebrew National Oscar Mayer Pabst Sam Adams And hundreds more on Labor411.org Peanuts Frito-Lay Salted In-Shell Peanuts Soft Drinks Barq’s Root Beer Coca-Cola Dr. Pepper Mountain Dew Pepsi Beer Budweiser Coors Miller Popcorn Act II Orville Redenbacher LABOR411.ORG
