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SERVING ORGANIZED LABOR IN OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON SINCE 1900
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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
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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.
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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
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