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Northwest Oregon Labor Council SERVING ORGANIZED LABOR IN OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON SINCE 1900 NORTHWEST Governor: Kate Brown OREGON STATEWIDE: LABOR PRESS STATEWIDE BALLOT MEASURES SUPPORT: Measure 102: Constitutional amendment to make affordable housing bond dollars go farther by allowing local governments to partner with non-profit and private housing providers. IN THIS ISSUE NEW AGREEMENT TO REPLACE NAFTA AFL-CIO analyzing new deal. | Page 13 BRICKLAYERS CELEBRATE 125 YEARS Local 1 got its charter in 1893. | Page 14 Meetings p. 10 IBEW’s top new graduate p. 12 OPPOSE: Measure 103: Constitutional amendment that would allow a tax carve out for cor- ments to make their own decisions about local issues and address public health crises. OPPOSE: Measure 104: Constitutional amendment that would make it harder to eliminate tax loopholes or hold corporations and the wealthy accountable for paying their fair share. OPPOSE: Measure 105: Constitutional amendment to repeal 30-year sanctuary state law. OPPOSE: Measure 106: Constitutional amendment to prohibit public funds from being spent on abortions in Oregon, which could impact public employees and people on Medicaid. CLACKAMAS COUNTY: COLUMBIA COUNTY: Clerk: Pamela White Commissioner: Pos. 2: Henry Heimuller CITY OF GLADSTONE: Mayor: Tammy Stempel CITY OF GRESHAM Councilor: Position 2: Eddy Morales Councilor: Position 4: Mario Palmero CITY OF HILLSBORO: Commissioner, Ward 2, Position A: Kyle Allen Commissioner, Ward 3, Position A: Olivia Alcaire Councilor: Emma Burke Councilor: Daniel Nguyen CITY OF LAKE OSWEGO: Councilor: Jackie Manz METRO: Councilor, District 2: Christine Lewis Support Measure 26-199: A regional bond to fund affordable housing for VOLUME 119, NUMBER 18 PORTLAND, OREGON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Tense bargaining with Kaiser Permanente ends with national deal and pledge to work on relationship By Don McIntosh A coalition of 22 unions reached tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente Sept. 23 on a new union contract covering 47,000 workers in eight states. The deal followed months of the tensest negotiations Kaiser workers have seen in many years. Kaiser and its unions have long touted as a success a 22-year-old “la- bor-management partnership” in which the relationship is sup- posed to be collaborative, not ad- versarial. But after this year’s ne- gotiations, the partners may need couples counseling. Coalition union leaders plan to meet with Kaiser senior leadership in Feb- ruary to talk about how to get the partnership back on track. Kaiser is an unusual entity in health care: It’s a non-profit ALL IN FAVOR OF PICKETING OUR EMPLOYER? At a July 29 mass meeting in the Oregon Convention Center, members of Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals approved a season of picketing at Kaiser Permanente. health maintenance organization (HMO) that’s vertically inte- grated in some areas, operating as both an insurance company and a network of hospitals and clinics. And as the most heavily low-income families, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities. CITY OF MILWAUKIE: Mayor: Mark Gamba MULTNOMAH COUNTY: Auditor: Jennifer McGuirk Circuit Court Judge, Pos. 30: Ben Souede CITY OF PORTLAND: Commissioner, Pos. 2: Loretta Smith WASHINGTON COUNTY: Chair: Oregon Senate Kathryn Harrington (Within Northwest Oregon Labor Council’s jurisdiction) Dist. 13: Sarah Grider; Dist. 15: Chuck Riley; Dist. 16: Betsy Johnson; Dist. 17: Elizabeth Steiner Hayward; Dist. 19: Rob Wagner; Dist. 20: Charles Gallia; Dist. 24: Shemia Fagan Oregon House (Within Northwest Oregon Labor Council’s jurisdiction) Dist. 27: Sheri Malstrom; Dist. 28: Jeff Barker; Dist. 29: Susan McLain; Dist. 30: Janeen Sollman; Dist. 31: Brad Witt; Dist. 32: Tiffiny Mitchell; Dist. 33: Mitch Greenlick; Dist. 34: Ken Helm; Dist. 35: Margaret Doherty; Dist. 36: Jennifer Williamson; Dist. 37: Rache Prusak; Dist. 38: Andrea Salinas; Dist. 40: Mark Meek; Dist. 41: Karin Power; Dist. 42: Rob Nosse; Dist. 44: Tina Kotek; Dist. 45: Bar- bara Smith Warner; Dist. 46: Alissa Keny-Guyner; Dist. 47: Diego Hernandez; Dist. 48: Jeff Reardon; Dist. 49: Chris Gorsek; Dist. 50: Carla Piluso; Dist. 51: Janelle Bynum; Dist. 52: Anna Williams Authorized and paid for by the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, 9955 SE Washington, St., Suite 305, Portland, OR OCTOBER 5, 2018 Photo by Sam Porter, courtesy of OFNHP porations that want to avoid paying their fair share. Blocks the ability of voters and local govern- unionized health provider net- work in the nation, Kaiser has cultivated close relationships with unions, earning status as a Turn to Page 5 POLITICS Union members are running for office By Don McIntosh Union nurse Rachel Prusak thinks it’s time Julie Parrish re- tired from the Ore- gon Legislature. As a nurse practitioner, Prusak makes house calls to care for some of Oregon’s sickest seniors. So when she learned that Parrish, her own state representative, was the Legisla- ture’s biggest obsta- cle to efforts to fund Medicaid, she took it personally. Turn to Page 2 A UNION GUIDE TO THE NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION Union firefighters Dacia Grayber and Brian Smith get ready to canvass to help elect union nurse Rachel Prusak (center) to the Legislature. OREGON BALLOT Pages 6-7 WASHINGTON BALLOT Page 9
