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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
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