WHAT GIVES AT OPELP
A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM MIKE:
The unfortunate truth is that OPEU appears to be peppered with people whose
first loyalty is to an outside organization, not us. We are being influenced by a group
called Re-evaluation Counseling, or “RC” as it is called. You need to know about it
because RC is a significant presence in unions and progressive groups nationally. .
I was pleased when—finally—a public announcement was made about Re-eyalu-
ation Counseling by Lois Yoshishige during OPEU’s 2000 General Council meeting in
Corvallis. I would urge all members who have questions to look up the facts about
this group and its theories. Check it out and make up your own mind. But for now at
least we have open acknowledgment of RC’s presence among us.
It wouldn’t have been an issue except that RC has a hard political edge. RCers
have been accused of hijacking organizational agendas. Whether you think RC is
good or bad matters less than the simple right to know.
Check these web sites for more information on RC:
http://sites.netscape.net/mavomike/rcexposed
http://www.cocowebs.com/liberaterc
CAPE MEMBER ALERT!
Right now, Oregon RCers are engaged in a statewide campaign to make one of
their own, Multnomah County Chair Beverly Stein, our next Governor. Since at least
1988, RC friends and family have been advancing Stein’s career.
But politicians like Stein will sell us out when it suits them. For example, to
widen her political network, Stein conducts county commissioner exchanges with
other officials around Oregon. Even though Jefferson County is on OPEU’s DO NOT
PATRONIZE list for vicious anti-union practices, Stein is conducting an official ex
change with Jefferson County Commissioner Janet Brown. If this is what the Stein
campaign delivers now, just imagine how we’ll fare when Stein is Governor?