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pAge 4 | November 2, 2018 | norTHWesT lABor press A union guide to oregon’s november general election legenD The acronyms below refer to statewide or regional bodies unless 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 municipal em- ployees 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 instructors 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 If a candidate is listed in bold below, they’re backed by at least one labor organization. To keep a long list as short as possible, union- endorsed candidates who are running unop- posed or against only token opposition are not listed. You’ll see that unions sometimes didn’t agree: In some winner-take-all races, more than one candidate got support from at least one union. Following each name is a list of union endorsers and a link to the cam- paign web site, if they have one. DON’T FORGET: Ballots must be re- ceived (not postmarked) by Nov. 6! congress Congressional District 1 (NW Oregon) suzanne Bonamici, a three-term incumbent, has a 95 percent lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO. AFL-CIO, AFGE, AFT, IAFF, IAM, IBT, IUPAT, OEA, ONA BonamiciForCongress.com Congressional District 2 (E Oregon) Jamie Mcleod skinner is a city planner and former AFSCME member. She’s mounting the most serious challenge in years to 20-year incumbent Congressman Greg Walden, a Republican whose votes over the years have earned him a 23 percent lifetime rating from the national AFL-CIO. AFL-CIO, APWU, IBT, OEA, SEIU 503, UFCW, WFP JamieForOregon.com greg Walden was the owner of five Columbia Gorge radio stations and a former chief of staff to Republican Congressman Denny Smith when he first ran for Congress in 1998. He’s been re-elected ever since in the district that covers the two-thirds of Oregon east of the Willamette Valley. IBEW 48 GregWalden.com Congressional District 3 (E Portland) earl Blumenauer, an 11-term incumbent, has a 94 percent lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO. AFL-CIO, AFL-CIO, AFGE, AFT, OEA EarlBlumenauer.com Congressional District 4 (SW Oregon) peter Defazio, a 16-term incumbent, has a 94 percent AFL-CIO rating. AFT, AFGE, OEA, UFCW, WFP defazioforcongress.org Congressional District 5 (W Oregon) Kurt schrader, an 11-term incumbent, has an 83 percent lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO. AFGE, OEA, UFCW kurtschrader.com sTATeWIDe Governor Kate Brown, a Democrat, has been Oregon’s governor 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 considered two competing ballot measure proposals to raise the minimum wage, Brown met with business and labor leaders and crafted a compromise – raising the wage at different rates in different parts of the state. By 2022, the 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 resulting legislation will raise wages to $14.75 in the Portland area, $13.50 in the Willamette Valley 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 Republican 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 pension system. He did not seek union endorsement. AFL-CIO, AFGE, AFT, OBTC, OEA, ONA, UFCW KateBrownForOregon.com BAlloT MeAsures Measure 102 supporTThis 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 almost unanimously to refer this constitutional amendment to voters. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME 88, 189, 328, AFT, ATU, IBEW 48, IAFF 43, OEA, OSEA, PAT, SEIU 49, 503, UBC, UFCW, WFP YesForAffordableHousing.com Measure 103 opposeThis measure, bankrolled by giant grocery chains, would amend the Oregon Constitution to bar any taxes on food or soda — and exempt the grocery 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, defeating Measure 103 is one of its top priorities this year. AFL-CIO, AAUP, AFSCME, AFT, ATU, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, WFP NoOn103.org Measure 104 opposeThis 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 measure (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, ATU, IAFF, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, WFP NoOn104.org Measure 105 opposeThis 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 profiling 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 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 Council, 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 lo- cals of AFT at PCC PTE 17 Professional & Technical Employees at City of Portland they commit crimes. But Oregonians can’t be stopped, detained or interrogated just because someone thinks they might be an undocumented immigrant. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, ATU, IBEW 48, ILWU 5, IUPAT, IW, LiUNA, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, UBC, UFCW, WFP ORunited.org Measure 106 opposeThis constitutional amendment prohibits public funds from being spent on abortions in Oregon, except when medically necessary or required by federal law. It would impact two groups of Oregonians 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, AFSCME, AFT, ATU, IAFF, ONA, OSEA, PAT, SEIU 49, 503, UFCW, WFP NoCutsToCare.com oregon senATe Senate District 1 (Roseburg) Dallas Heard, incumbent Republican OBTC shannon souza, Democrat OBTC, IBEW 932, OSEA, SEIU 503, 49, WFP ElectShannonSouza.org Senate District 3 (Medford) 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 4 (Eugene) floyd prozanski, incumbent Democrat. AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, ATU 757, IAFF, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, UA 290, UFCW Floyd4Senate.com Senate District 6 (Springfield) lee Beyer, incumbent Democrat. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, OEA, ONA, SEIU, UA 290, UFCWVoteLeeBeyer.com Senate District 8 (Corvallis) sara gelser, incumbent Democrat. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, IAFF, IBEW 48, IBT, IUOE 701, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, SMART, UBC, UFCW, USW, WFP SaraGelser.com Senate District 10 (Salem) Deb patterson, Democrat, is a Congregational minister and home care provider represented by SEIU Local 503, and an Oregon Labor Candidate School graduate. AAUP, AFSCME, AFT, IBT, OEA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, WFP DebPattersonOR.org Jackie Winters, Republican, is a longtime incumbent. OBTC JackieWinters.com Senate District 11 (Salem) peter courtney, incumbent Democrat and Senate President, faces a challenge from Republican Greg Warnock. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, OEA, SEIU, UA 290, UFCW, WFP VotePeterCourtney.com Senate District 13 (Keizer) sarah grider, an educational assistant at Newberg School District, is president of OSEA Local 17 at Newberg High School. She’s challenging Republican incumbent Kim Thatcher. Grider lost the Democratic primary to Willamette law professor Paul Diller, but then he dropped out of the 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 race, and she was named his replacement in a party nominating convention. AFL-CIO, AFT, OSEA, PCCFAP/PCCFCE, SEIU 49, UFCW, WFP SarahGrider.org Senate District 15 (Hillsboro) chuck riley, incumbent Democrat. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AAUP, AFSCME, AFT, IAFF 1660, IBEW 48, IBT, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, UFCW, WFP ChuckRiley.org Senate District 19 (Tualatin) rob Wagner, incumbent Democrat, is a former lobbyist for AFT. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, IBEW 48, OEA, ONA, OSEA, PCCFAP/PCCFCE, SEIU 49, 503, UFCW, USW, WFP RobWagnerForOregon.com Senate District 20 (Canby) charles gallia, a health policy researcher, is challenging incumbent Republican Alan Olsen. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AAUP, AFSCME, AFT, ATU, IAM, IBT, ILWU, Insulators, IW 29, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, UFCW, WFP Gallia4Oregon.com Senate District 26 (Hood River) chrissy reitz, a Hood River School Board member, is challenging incumbent Republican Chuck Thomsen. AFSCME, AFT, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU 503 UFCW, WFP ChrissyForOregon.com oregon House House District 2 (Roseburg) gary leif, who was appointed to the office when fellow Republican Dallas Heard was appointed to fill the senate seat vacated by Jeff Kruse, faces a challenge from Democrat Megan Salter, a homemaker and former teacher. OBTC GaryLeif.com House District 6 (Medford) Michelle Blum Atkinson, a Democrat, is challenging Republican incumbent Sal Esquivel. AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, OEA, OSEA, SEIU BlumAtkinson.com House District 7 (Roseburg) Kristy Inskip, a Lane County public health worker and member of AFSCME 2831, is challenging Republican incumbent Cedric Hayden. OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, OPEIU OSEA, SEIU 49, 503, UFCW InskipForOregon.com House District 9 (Coos Bay) caddy McKeown has been a reliable backer of funding for K-12 and infrastructure, and supports the Jordan Cove project. She faces a challenge from Republican community college instructor Teri Grier. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFSCME, AFT, IAFF, IAM, OEA, ONA, SEIU, UA 290, UFCW caddymckeown.com House District 10 (Central Coast) David gomberg a kite store owner, is the Democratic incumbent. AFL-CIO, OBTC, IAM, OEA, UFCW ElectGomberg.com House District 11 (Eugene) Marty Wilde, a Democrat, faces Republican Mark Herbert for the open seat that was held by Democrat Phil Barnhart. AFL-CIO, OBTC, AFT, ATU, IBEW, IBT, OEA, ONA, OSEA, SEIU, UFCW, WFPWildeForOregon.com House District 15 (Albany) Jerred Taylor, a Democrat, was a supply chain manager until the solar manufacturer he worked for closed last year. He faces Republican straw farmer Shelly Boshart Davis and Independent Party candidate Cynthia Hyatt for the seat
