sets sights on Labor Commission
Board member faces tough campaign
tion leaving the race wide open.
Most strongly opposing Groe
ner on the Democratic ticket are
Mary Roberts political affairs
director of the Oregon AFL-
CIO, and Nellie Fox, a state sen
ator from Portland.
Groener talked about what
Commissioner of Labor the labor Commissioner can do
looted position that has to improve working conditions
Ifferent democratic can- for the people living in Oregon
andtwo Republican can- --particularly those employed as
migrant laborers.
running this year.
These migrants make up the
Commissioner is respon-
i all civil rights casès in largest minority group in the
state yet politically and econo
mically their presence is hardly
y Jim McCaffrey
felt, Groener said. Groener said
Of The Print
that he has special insight into
the particular problems of these
people and understands the un
te involving job discrim- usual nature of their problems
, He is also responsible perhaps better than any of his
¡regulation of wage and opponents.
ws, regulates federal and
He attributes this understand
ib programs and oversees ing to the fact that.be has had
tiness of labor and man- very close dealings with the mi
itto help prevent abuses, grant Chicano community, hav
unusually large number ing worked summers as a mi
lidates on this year's tic- grant himself. On a more pol
due mostly to the fact itically active level, while at the
eincumbent, BillSteven- University of Oregon studying
not running for re-elec- sociology, Groener, along with
li Groener is the chair-
i the Clackamas County
Board of Education. But
[may soon have to give
jf positions to take the
Commissioner of Labor
state of Oregon, if elec-
Jj|
Ralph Groener
;.. seeks state position
his wife, spent time in Delano,
Calif, helping Ceaser Chavez or
ganize United Farm Workers
(UFW) boycotts of farm goods
helping migrants form a strong
union that would improve great
ly the conditions for which they
worked, Groener said.
This background has made
Groener put meaningful employ-
ment and education for the mi
grants at the top of his priority
list.
Groener charged that many
abuses of the migrant labor, such
as the exploitation of cheap
and illegal aliens, go undetected
because of the labor department
has only one or two case work
ers on the problems in the whole
state of Oregon.
Referring continually to his
"Action Plan" which is a point-
by-point outline of what Groe
ner feels are the needs of the
Labor Department, he strongly
stressed that his legislative ex
perience (two terms in the Ore
gon House of Representatives)
along with his political saavy will
give him the ability to push
through the ideas which will
"beef up Bill Stevenson’s politi
cally impotent
labor depart
Groener would like to intro
duce legislation that would raise
the maximum eligibility age to
aid unskilled workers entering
the job market, thus helping
many including, for instance,
woman whose financial stability
is upset by the divorce or death
of a husband.
Other program ideas include
more flexible manditory retire
ment programs for those senior
citizens who feel the need or de
sire to work past the regular
retirement age and new youth
opportunity
programs
that
would go beyond finding tem-
porary job programs to areas
where youngsters would have
definite career opportunity po
tential.
ment."
These ideas include attempts
at increasing the staff to better
handle the work load of the lab
or bureau and better organiza
tion and new programs particu
larly in the Comprehensive Ed
ucation and Training Act and
the apprenticeship and training
division.
begins on men's resource center
first step toward estab-
a men's resource center
College was taken last
yatan informal meeting
ed by Vince Fitzgerald,
counselor.
n's needs in our society
en changing considerably
le time," "aid Fitzgerald,
ince pci. ' ipating in the
on Women programs, I
(ought that there might
id for and a benefit from
's program."
m coordinating the plan-
ira possible resource de-
specifically for men in
urrent social and personal
needs. This could be something
simple like a men's conscious
ness raising group that meets
once a week or something like
the Focus on Women program,"
he said.
y ;
During the meeting, several
reasons for the need for such a
program were aired such as the
difficulties men have with single
parenting, insecurities and fears
brought on by women in general
and the
women's liberation
movement in particular, and
some very basic problems in re
lating to a changing society.
Although need has been es
tablished, the problem of how
to get men to take advantage of
services a resource center would
have to offer is a big one, ac
cording to Fitzgerald.
"Most men, because of a
price factor and ego, won't ad
mit to themselves that they need
help solving their problems,"
said one participant in the dis
cussion.
One suggestion was the for
mation of a class that would
deal with men's changing roles
in society.
It would include discussions
on alternative lifestyles, sex roles
stereotyping, gay roles in so
ciety, and changing sex roles.
houses Handicap Resource Center
idicapped students at the
I need not travel to the
id Center for assistance
lore due to the BiHandicap
ice
Center's
recent
Sothe trailer sites.
(nk Gillock, Research spec
ial assistant to the Handi-
Bsource Center's coordi na
pe Kunkel, said that the
reason for the move to
I A was for special rea-
he were three different
ps occupying the building
rones at the Orchard Gen
ping things to be a little
led," Gillock said. "Over
pthe trailer we are closer
I handicapped students on
p enabling us to better
iheir needs."
^Handicap Resource Cen
to disabled persons in
[of occupational and phy-
nsources and helps them
self-fulfillment, Gillock
f will train these people
R for their desired fu-
Moyment
and guide
h certain agencies which
flicking at the College,"
■
pitly, Clackamas County
R average in terms of
Bay, May 10,1978
occupational and physical re
sources when compared to Wash
ington and Multnomah counties,
Gillock said.
"Clackamas County just does
n't contain adequate handicap
services which many of our stu
dents at the College need," he
said.* "We would like to see
Clackamas County equal the
other two counties in terms of
occupational and physical re
sources and facilities and then
surpass them in the near future.
By the end of this term we
should be a complete informa
tion referral center."
The Handicap Resource Cen
ter's move to the trailers is
only a Itelmporary residency.
By fall term it should have a
complete center behind Mc
Loughlin Hall, Gillock said.
During the summer, the cen
ter will be operating all week
long including Fridays when the
rest of the campus will be closed.
The center is open to the public,
but Gillock stressed that its use
be restricted to handicapped stu
dents only.
Plans for the future, if fin
ances allow it will be to imple
ment a 24-hour hotline service
throughout the week, Gillock
said.
"When the individual does
call our hotline number, their
call will be diverted by computer
to one of our volunteer's offices
or residences and they will help
the individual
from there,"
Gillock said.
The Handicap Resource Cen
ter may be contacted at 656-
2631, ext. 338.
Anyone with ideas and sug
gestions or opinions on a men's
resource center is invited to at
tend the next informal informa
tional session to be held Tues
day, May 16 from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. in CC-117. Participants
may come either for one hour or
both.
Groener said the function of
the labor department is to be
responsible to the public. Educa
tion of the public in an attempt
to help to bring more under
standing of programs will bring
aboyt more of a feeling that the
department is there to work
with the public,
not against
them, Groener said. Courtesy
to the public would be a num
ber one priority in Groener's
department.
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