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PAGE 2 | October 5, 2018 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS LABOR PRESS (International Standard Serial Number 0894-444X) Established in 1900 in Portland, Oregon as a voice of the la- bor movement. Published on a semi-monthly basis on the first and third Fridays of each month by the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Co. Inc., a non-profit mutual benefit corpo- ration owned by 20 unions and councils including the Ore- gon AFL-CIO. Serving more than 120 union organizations in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Office location: 4275 NE Halsey St., Portland, Oregon Mailing address: P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213 Phone: (503) 288-3311 Web address: http://nwlaborpress.org Editor & Manager: Michael Gutwig Associate editor: Don McIntosh Office manager: Cheri Rice Printed on recycled paper, using soy-based inks, by members of Teamsters Local 747-M. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Individual subscriptions are $15 a year for union members, $23 a year for all others. Pay by credit card online at nwlaborpress.org/subscribe, or send a check to our mailing address (above) along with your name, address and union affiliation, if any. Group rates of $10.56 a year per person are available for 25 or more subscriptions; call 503-288-3311 for details. CORRECTIONS: See an error? Please let us know at editor@nwlaborpress.org or by phone at 503-288-3311. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT PORTLAND, OREGON. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: If you move, let us know at nwlaborpress.org/subscriber-services or by mail at our mailing address (above). Be sure to provide your old and new addresses and the name/number of your local union. Please allow three weeks for the change to take effect. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS P.O. BOX 13150 PORTLAND, OR 97213-0150 ...Union members running for office From Page 1 In 2017, to maintain the Med- icaid-funded Oregon Health Plan, lawmakers had to find a way to raise revenue, knowing that whatever money they raised would be matched 9-to-1 by the federal government. The plan majority Democrats came up with was to increase a tax on hospital revenue, and levy a 1.5 percent tax on health insurance premiums. Parrish, the Repub- lican state rep for House District 37 (West Linn), didn’t just vote against it. She led an initiative to refer it to voters in an effort to stop it. Voters rubber-stamped the Legislature’s plan by a whopping 62 percent, but not until after Oregon unions spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending health care for seniors and low-income Oregonians. Parrish also voted against the minimum wage increase, and against the bill that guaranteed workers paid sick leave. That record bothered Prusak as a nurse and as a citizen so much that she sought out training from the union-affiliated Oregon La- bor Candidates School, and threw her hat in the ring. St. Monica Apartments, a group foster home for pregnant young women in crisis, opened this May in Keizer. with Northside Electric's help, IBEW Local 280 member Mike Ellison got the electrical portion of the project donated. Now, backed strongly by her own union, Oregon Nurses As- sociation, and by the wider labor movement, Prusak is house-call- ing voters, not just patients. She estimates she’s personally knocked on the doors of over 3,000 registered voters, and campaign volunteers have knocked on another 22,000. If Prusak wins, she’ll enter the Legislature as a staunch advo- cate of tax fairness, single payer healthcare, and smaller class sizes. And Oregonians will have a nurse in the room when laws about health care and health in- surance are being crafted. Photo by Christopher Hoy NORTHWEST Want union power? Put an electrician in the House In an era when working people are falling behind, in a state where labor and greens quarrel while forests burn, union electri- cian Mike Ellison is ready to be Turn to Page 3 Low Prices! Coats, etc. Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 9:30-5:30, Sun 12-6 SHOP LOCAL. AND BUY UNION AND AMERICAN- MADE.
