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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!
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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