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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016
Adversaries in antiunion measure ¿ ght A* on Eallot title
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Two adver-
saries in a ballot initiative
to strip public sector unions
of the power to collect fees
from employees who opt out
of union membership are
united on one front: They’re
unhappy with the attorney
general’s ballot title for the
measure.
The initiative’s chief peti-
tioner, Jill Gibson, a Port-
land-area
attorney,
and
initiative opponents Oregon
Education Association and
SEUI Local 503 have peti-
tioned the Oregon Supreme
Court to review the title.
Gibson said the descrip-
tion that would appear on the
ballot fails to disclose the two
bene¿ ts of the measure.
Employees who opt out of
the union would no longer have
to pay fees. The union, in turn,
would no longer be required
to represent non-members
in collective bargaining.
Instead, non-members would
earn merit pay from their
employer instead of receiving
the pay and bene¿ ts outlined
in the union’s employment
agreement.
The description says a
“yes” vote would prevent a
public employer from “basing
non-union employee compen-
sation on union contract,”
allow “compensation differ-
ences and require union fees
only if they bene¿ t from
representation.”
A “no” vote would retain
laws “allowing contracts
that specify all bargaining
unit public employees’
compensation,
require
non-member payments” and
continue prohibition against
compensation
encour-
aging or discouraging union
membership.
Union leaders argue
that the description fails to
communicate the fundamental
change the measure would
make to collective bargaining
in the state.
The title “fails to tell
voters that the proposal
requires different compen-
sation and other employ-
ment terms for union and
non-union members,” union
leaders wrote in their petition.
The union leaders say
that change would effec-
tively allow discrimination
by “setting employment terms
for the purpose of encour-
aging or discouraging union
membership.”
It’s unclear when the
Supreme Court will decide the
dispute. Gibson said she still
has plenty of time to collect
the some 88,000 signatures
she needs to get the initiative
on the ballot before the July 8
deadline.
High court expected to
rule on similar issue
The U.S. Supreme Court
is expected to rule in June
on a case argued earlier this
PUBLIC MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce
Council, 12 p.m., 818 Commercial St., Suite
203.
Clatsop County Recreational Lands
Planning and Advisory Committee, 1 to 3
p.m., fourth fl oor, 800 Exchange St.
Cannon Beach Planning Commission, 6
p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
MONDAY
Youngs River Lewis & Clark Water Dis-
trict Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway
101 Business.
Astoria City Council, 6 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
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month that also challenges
mandatory fees, as well as the
way they’re collected.
The court heard oral
arguments in January in a
case brought by a group of 10
California teachers who say
the mandatory fees trample
on free-speech rights of
workers who oppose union
causes. Labor union of¿ cials
refer to mandatory fees as
“fair share” fees because the
money pays for the cost of
collective bargaining and
pursuing grievances. While
dues might cover the cost of
some of the union’s political
activities, “fair share” fees
are restricted to paying for
collective bargaining, griev-
ances and other non-political
services.
“The court could declare
that employees can’t be
forced to pay money to a
union in which case part of
my measure would be moot,”
Gibson said.
Some states already have
passed laws that prohibit
mandatory union fees.
Oregon initiative more
sweeping
Gibson’s measure goes
further than those state
laws and the scope of U.S.
Supreme Court case by elim-
inating the requirement for
unions to represent employees
who don’t pay the fees.
“There would be no free
riders,” Gibson said. “It’s not
like that in any other state.
Every other right-to-work
state doesn’t relieve unions
of the responsibility of repre-
senting free riders.”
Even if the Supreme Court
eliminates mandatory fees,
she said she would continue
to pursue her initiative so
that unions would no longer
be required to represent
employees who decline to pay
fees.
Gibson, who has backing
for the initiative from the
timber industry, has long been
Energy, education top priorities
as Boone seeks reelection Eid
K-12 budget in state history, Columbia Memorial Hospital
funded full-day kindergarten medical staff, is the owner of
for the ¿ rst time, and made Angel Medical, a health clinic
big investments in higher in Astoria.
“My family and I have
education. We also approved
bonding for seismic upgrades called Clatsop County our
home for more
for schools and
than two-and-half
public
safety
decades,” Bobek
buildings that will
said in a statement.
make them safer in
“I’ve built a medical
the event of earth-
practice here, raised
quakes and will
a family, and served
provide hundreds of
our
community
jobs in the process.”
in both the public
Bruce Bobek, an
and private sectors.
Astoria doctor and
I’m running for the
former Warrenton
Legislature because
city commissioner,
State Rep.
has
announced Deborah Boone I believe we need
new leadership in
a
Republican
campaign in House District Salem that can restore con¿ -
32, which includes parts dence in government.”
In 2014, Boone took 61
of Clatsop, Tillamook, and
percent of the vote over Warrenton
Washington counties.
Dr. Bobek, the president of Republican Rick Rose .
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
State Rep. Deborah
Boone is seeking re-election
for a seventh term repre-
senting the North Coast in
the House.
Boone, who lives in
Hamlet and whose of¿ ce is in
Cannon Beach, is vice - chair-
woman of the House Veterans
and Emergency Prepared-
ness Committee and serves on
the House Energy and Envi-
ronment Committee and the
Joint Committee on Ways
and Means Subcommittee on
Human Services .
“We’ve made big strides
on Oregonians’ biggest prior-
ities, but we still have a lot of
work to do,” the Democrat
said in a statement. “Last
year, we passed the largest
BIRTH
Jan. 22, 2016
PRINGLE, Sherry and Caleb, of Hammond,
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SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS
Kirkland, Washington
Sept. 16, 1932 — Jan. 20, 2016
Marilyn West Pheasant, 83, died on Jan. 20, her early 50s. She was a superintendent of schools
2016, from complications from vascular dementia. at Cascade Locks, Oregon, and Olney, Oregon
She leaves her daughter, Elizabeth Pheasant, school districts, from which she retired in 1997.
along with her sister-in-law, Martha Ullman She loved teaching and children, and in her career
she made a positive impact on many
West, her niece Alice Emily West,
peoples’ lives.
grand-nephews Michael Johnson, Jeff
Following her retirement, she
Johnson and Feodor West and grand-
traveled extensively in the U.S. and
niece Flora West.
abroad, taking cruises through the
Marilyn was born in 1932 in
Panama Canal, and across the Baltic
Portland, Oregon, to Bess Dixon West
Sea to see Stockholm, Tallinn and St.
and Emil Edward West. The family
Petersburg.
was in the logging industry, and
Throughout her life she worked for
they lived in various logging camps
the Democratic Party, and was involved
throughout Oregon until they settled in
in Vasa, the Swedish American
Roseburg. She was preceded in death
by her parents, her sister, Molly Marie Marilyn Pheasant Fraternal Organization. She loved all
animals, especially crows, and enjoyed
Johnson, and her beloved brother,
bird watching, and reading about many
Franklin C. West.
An accomplished horseback rider and trainer, subjects, including American history and politics
she was Rodeo Queen in Roseburg in her teens, and Native American culture.
The family would like to thank Gena’s
and was often called the Dale Evans of Roseburg
Best Care of Kirkland and to offer special
by her brother.
In 1954, she married Charles E. Pheasant. They thanks to Gena, Mimi, Dana and Ana for their
lived in various cities in Wyoming and Colorado. compassion, friendship and skilled assis-
tance during the ¿ nal two-and-a-half years of
Marilyn and Charles divorced in 1968.
Marilyn highly valued education and while Marilyn’s life.
In lieu of À owers, please raise a glass to her
working full time, she got her bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in political science from the memory, toss a french fry to a crow or send a
University of Colorado, and a Ph.D in education donation to EMILY ’s List at http://emilyslist.org
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a proponent of ending the
mandatory fees. She launched
a ballot initiative in 2014 that
would have done just that.
Under
a
settlement
agreement
brokered
by
former Gov. John Kitzhaber
in 2014, Gibson withdrew
the initiative in exchange for
the unions dropping some
proposed tax measures. Those
included a corporate sales tax
initiative.
Two years later, both
Gibson and the unions have
resurrected their proposals.
What’s different about
this year is no one is trying to
broker a deal between Gibson
and the unions, Gibson said.
“I don’t think the unions
are interested in withdrawing,
and I’m not interested in with-
drawing,” Gibson said. “There
is no one putting pressure to
do so.”
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