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pAge 6 | October 5, 2018 | northWest lABor press A union guide to oregon’s november general election If a candidate is listed in bold below, they’re backed by at least one labor or- ganization. To keep a long list as short as possible, union-endorsed candidates who are running unopposed or against only token opposition are not listed. DON’T FORGET: Ballots must be re- ceived (not postmarked) by Nov. 6! legenD The acronyms below refer to statewide or regional bodies un- less a local number is listed. AFL-CIO the state federation that most unions belong to AAUP university professors AFM 99 musicians AFSCME state, county, and mu- nicipal employees 88 Multnomah County 189 City of Portland 2505 OLCC 328 OHSU 350 Clackamas County 3336 Oregon DEQ 3580 Metro 2831 Lane County AFTAFT-Oregon (college instruc- tors and school support staff) ATU 757 transit AWPPW pulp and paper mill BAC Bricklayers Local 1 Boilermakers Local 104 CPBTC Portland metro area building trades council CWA 7901 telecom IAFF fire fighters 43 Portland 1159 Clackamas County 314 Salem 2210 Hillsboro 1660Tualatin Valley IAM Oregon Machinists Council IBEW electrical workers 48 Portland 280 Albany 125 utility lineman local IBTTeamsters Joint Council 37 IBU Inland Boatmen’s Union ILWU longshore/warehouse Insulators - Insulators Local 36 IUOE 701 Operating Engineers Local 701 IUPAT Painters District Council 5 IW Ironworkers Local 29 LiUNA Oregon/SW Washington District Council of Laborers 483 public sector laborers 737 construction laborers NALC 82 letter carriers NOLC NW Oregon Labor Coun- cil, the local AFL-CIO OBTC state building trades OEA Oregon Education Assn. (teachers) or local affiliates OFNHP nurses and health techs ONA Oregon Nurses Association OPEIU 11 office/professional OPCMIA 82 Plasterers Local 82 OPCMIA 555 Cement Masons Local 555 OSEA school employees PAT Portland Assn. of Teachers PCCFFAP/PCCFCE faculty and classified locals of AFT at PCC PTE 17 Professional & Technical Employees at City of Portland Roofers Roofers Local 49 SEIU service employees 503 public sector 49 hospital and janitorial SMART Sheet Metal Local 16 UA 290 plumbers and fitters UFCW 555 grocery UBC Carpenters USW steel workers WFPWorking Families Party, a union-backed minor party congress oregon senAte Congressional District 1 (NW Oregon) Senate District 1 (Roseburg) suzanne Bonamici, a three-term incumbent, has a 95 percent lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO. AFL-CIO, AFT, IAFF, IAM, IBT, IUPAT, OEA, ONA BonamiciForCongress.com Dallas heard, incumbent Republican OBTC shannon souza, Democrat OBTC, IBEW 932, OSEA, SEIU 503, 49, WFP electshannonsouza.org Congressional District 2 (E Oregon) Jeff golden, manager for Medford’s public television station, faces Republican businesswoman Jessica Gomez AAUP, AFSCME, IBT, OEA, OSEA, SEIU, SMART, WFP GoldenForSenate.com Senate District 3 (Medford) Jamie Mcleod skinner is a city planner and former AFSCME member. She’s mounting the most serious challenge in years to 20-year incumbent Congress- man Greg Walden, a Republican whose votes over the years have earned him a 23 percent lifetime rat- ing from the national AFL-CIO. APWU, IBT, OEA, SEIU 503, UFCW, WFP JamieForOregon.com Senate District 4 (Eugene) floyd prozanski, incumbent Democrat. AFL-CIO, AF- SCME, AFT, ATU 757, IAFF, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, UA 290, UFCW Floyd4Senate.com Congressional District 3 (E Portland) Senate District 6 (Springfield) earl Blumenauer, an 11-term incumbent, has a 94 percent lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO. AFL-CIO, AFL- CIO, AFT, OEA EarlBlumenauer.com lee Beyer, incumbent Democrat. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AF- SCME, AFT, OEA, ONA, SEIU, UA 290, UFCW VoteLeeBeyer.com Congressional District 4 (SW Oregon) peter Defazio, a 16-term incumbent, has a 94 per- cent AFL-CIO rating. AFT, OEA defazioforcongress.org Senate District 8 (Corvallis) Kurt schrader, an 11-term incumbent, has an 83 percent lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO. OEA, UFCW 555 kurtschrader.com WORKER POLITICAL POWER IS ABOUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Labor 2018, the Oregon AFL-CIO’s election effort, had a well attended kickoff Sept. 8, sending volunteers out from the Ore- gon Nurses Association office in Tualatin to canvass for Governor Kate Brown and House candidate Rachel Prusak. Visit oraflcio.org/take-action or facebook.com/pg/OregonAFLCIO/events to join other union members knocking doors or to find out about upcoming canvasses around the state. stAteWIDe BAllot MeAsUres Governor Measure 102 Congressional District 5 (W Oregon) Kate Brown, a Democrat, has been Oregon’s gover- nor since John Kitzhaber resigned in February 2015. In 2015, Brown signed legislation giving Oregon workers the right to paid sick leave. In 2016, as unions consid- ered two competing ballot measure proposals to raise the minimum wage, Brown met with QUestIons for KAte business and labor BroWn leaders and crafted a As this issue went to compromise – rais- press, we spoke with ing the wage at dif- Governor Brown about ferent rates in differ- ent parts of the state. some of the issues that By 2022, the result- matter most to working ing legislation will people. Look for that in- raise wages to terview in our Oct. 19 is- $14.75 in the Port- sue, or check it out at land area, $13.50 in nwlaborpress.org/2018/ the Willamette Valley GovernorBrown and the North Coast, and $12.50 in rural Eastern Oregon. In 2017, Brown signed a $5.3 billion transportation funding package and laws cracking down on abusive scheduling practices by employers, barring local jurisdictions from passing antiunion “right-to-work” ordinances, and taxing health care providers to pay for the Oregon Health Plan. Her Re- publican opponent, state representative Knute Buehler, voted against all those laws. He also says he won’t sign any spending bills until the Legislature sends him a bill “reforming” Oregon’s PERS public pen- sion system. He did not seek union endorsement. AFL- CIO, AFT, OBTC, OEA, ONA KateBrownForOregon.com sUpport This constitutional amendment would make public investments in affordable go farther by allowing local governments to partner with non- profit and private housing providers when spending public bond proceeds. Oregon legislators voted al- most unanimously to refer this constitutional amendment to voters. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME 88, 189, 328, AFT, IBEW 48, IAFF 43, OEA, OSEA, PAT, SEIU 49, 503, UBC, UFCW, WFP YesForAffordableHousing.com Measure 103 oppose This measure, bankrolled by giant grocery chains, would amend the Oregon Constitution to bar any taxes on food or soda — and exempt the gro- cery industry from any future increases in the state’s minimum corporate income tax. Bear in mind there is no current tax on groceries, and no one is proposing one. Grocery union UFCW is not in favor; in fact, de- feating Measure 103 is one of its top priorities this year. AFL-CIO, AAUP, AFSCME, AFT, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, WFP NoOn103.org Measure 104 oppose This constitutional amendment is the latest in a long line of efforts to undermine majority rule and hamstring the ability of Oregon’s elected representatives to fund schools and public services. A 1996 ballot meas- ure (which itself passed by 55 percent in a low-turnout primary) currently requires a 60 percent (three-fifths) supermajority vote in the legislature to raise taxes of any sort. Measure 104 would make it so that lawmakers would also need that same hard-to-obtain three-fifths supermajority to repeal or reform tax breaks. If it passes, it will make it harder for the legislature to reverse special interest tax loopholes that were a bad idea to begin with. AFL-CIO, AAUP, AFSCME, AFT, IAFF, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, WFP NoOn104.org Measure 105 sara gelser, incumbent Democrat. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AF- SCME, AFT, IAFF, IBEW 48, IBT, IUOE 701, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, SMART, UBC, UFCW, USW SaraGelser.com Senate District 10 (Salem) Deb patterson, a Congregational minister and home care provider represented by SEIU Local 503, is an Ore- gon Labor Canddate School graduate who is challeng- ing longtime incumbent Republican Jackie Winters. AAUP, AFSCME, AFT, IBT, OEA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, WFP DebPattersonOR.org oppose This measure would repeal a 1987 state law that bars state and local law enforcement agencies from apprehending people SOLELY on suspicion that they may have violated federal immigration law. Back then, the law passed overwhelmingly, with support from both parties, in response to racial profil- ing by police, like a case in which Polk County sheriffs demanded that a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent prove he was in the United States legally. Under the law, local police are still arresting immigrants if they commit crimes. But Oregonians can’t be stopped, de- tained or interrogated just because someone thinks they might be an undocumented immigrant. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, IBEW 48, ILWU 5, IUPAT, IW, LiUNA, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, UBC, UFCW, WFP ORunited.org Senate District 11 (Salem) Measure 106 chuck riley, incumbent Democrat. AFL-CIO, AAUP, AF- SCME, AFT, IAFF 1660, IBEW 48, IBT, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, UFCW, WFP ChuckRiley.org oppose This constitutional amendment prohibits public funds from being spent on abortions in Ore- gon, except when medically necessary or required by federal law. It would impact two groups of Oregoni- ans in particular: the 271,833 low-income women of reproductive age who are enrolled in the Medicaid- funded Oregon Health Plan, and the 77,344 women of reproductive age who get insurance through the Public Employees’ Benefit Board (PEBB) and Oregon Educators Benefits Board (OEBB). For the majority of PEBB and OEBB enrollees who are union members, those are benefits they bargained for. AFL-CIO, AF- SCME, AFT, IAFF, ONA, OSEA, PAT, SEIU 49, 503, UFCW, WFP NoCutsToCare.com peter courtney, incumbent Democrat and Senate President, faces a challenge from Republican Greg Warnock. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, OEA, SEIU, UA 290, UFCW VotePeterCourtney.com Senate District 13 (Keizer) sarah grider, an educational assistant at Newberg School District, is president of OSEA Local 17 at New- berg High School. She’s challenging Republican in- cumbent Kim Thatcher. Grider lost the Democratic primary to Willamette law professor Paul Diller, but then he dropped out of the race, and she was named his replacement in a party nominating convention. AFL-CIO, AFT, OSEA, PCCFAP/PCCFCE, SEIU 49, WFP SaraGrider.org Senate District 15 (Hillsboro) Senate District 19 (Tualatin) rob Wagner, incumbent Democrat, is a former lob- byist for AFT. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, IBEW 48, OEA, ONA, OSEA, PCCFAP/PCCFCE, SEIU 49, 503, UFCW, USW RobWagnerForOregon.com Senate District 20 (Canby) charles gallia, a health policy researcher, is chal- lenging incumbent Republican Alan Olsen. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AAUP, AFSCME, AFT, IBT, ILWU, Insulators, IW 29, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, UFCW Gallia4Oregon.com
