SEIU LOCAL 503, OPEU RECOMMENDS BILL BRADBURY
Candidates for
Oregon Senator
BILI. BRADBURY
GORDON SMITH
Working
Families
Oregon Senate 1985-1995 / Oregon House 1981-1994 Voting Record
lifetime voting record in favor of working families-
Voted for state legislation requiring all employers
to offer health coverage to their workers. (SB 935,1989)
Supports a prescription drug benefit for all
Medicare recipients.
Affordable
Health Care
for Working
Families
“I’m deeply disappointed that the current administra
tion has chosen to give tax breaks to those who need it
least and ignored senior prescription drug needs.”
Lifetime voting record in favor of working families:
20%
US Senate 1996-2002 / Oregon Senate 1993-1996
Voted to repeal state legislation requiring all
employers to offer health care coverage to their
workers. (SB 1155,1995)
Voted to pre-empt Oregon’s Patients’ Bill of
Rights and deny patients the right to sue their
HMOs over negligent care. (S 1052, 2001)
(Oregon AFL-CIO questionnaire)
Joined with Enron/PGE workers (IBEW Local 125)
at a press conference calling for increased corporate
accountability and pension reforms. (8/aKj^
Opposes the most recent version of “fast track”
trade negotiating authority. Committed “to ensure
w do not sacrifice internationally recognized labor,
environmental and human rights protections for all
workers.” (Oregon AFL-CIO questionnaire)
Holding
Corporations
Accountable
Voted to allow employers to deny already accrued
pension benefits to workers after a company con
verts to a new pension plan. (S1429, Vote #245^1999)
Fair Trade/
Job Protections
Voted to extend preferred trading status to China,
allowing that county to become part of the World
Trade Organization. (HR 4444,2000)
Voted for “fast track” trade legislation to pave the
way for more NAFTA-style trade agreements.
(HR 3009, 2002)
Will fight to reinstate the ergonomics standards
repealed by the Bush Administration. (9/24/02)
Workplace
Safety
Supports Social Security’s guaranteed defined
benefits and opposes privatization that would
weaken the system. (Oregon AFL-CIO questionnaire)
Protecting
Social
Security
Voted twice for establishing private accounts for
Social Security that would weaken its guaranteed
benefits. (SCR 86,1998, Vote #56 and Vote #77) -
Defending
Our Workplace
Rights
Voted for a bill to ban union organizers from
applying for and holding jobs for the purpose of
organizing a particular workplace. (S1981,1998)
Voted to extend collective bargaining to all state
and local fire fighters. (HR 14-O952,2002)
Opposed Bill Sizemore’s anti-worker Measures 92
and 98 that would have restricted and prohibited
the use of payroll-deducted funds for political repre
sentation. (Oregon Voters’ Pamphlet, 2000)
Signed commitment to support workers’ right to
form unions and bargain collectively and agreed to
challenge employers who interfere with that right.
(Oregon AFL-CIO questionnaire)
Jy oted to scuttle ergonomic standards designed
to reduce répétitive motion injuries on the job.
(SJR 6, 2001)
Declined to sign workers’ right commitment and
agreement to challenge employers who interfere
with that right. (Oregon AFL-CIO questionnaire)
For more information on these and other candidates for U. S. Senate, go to our website at at www.seiu503.org.