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cnair persona and scholarship chair Hillary Hampton, youth coordinator Justin Swoboda and
Corvallis NAACP President Barry Jerkins.
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NAACP Forming Leaders
Civil rights group
encourages participation
The election of leaders for the Portland NAACP will
be held on Saturday, Nov. 15 at the Red Cross Building,
3131N. Vancouver Ave., RoomC, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
The civil rights group met on Saturday to introduce
the nominees running for the offices of president, vice
president, secretary and treasurer.
Portland NAACP President Audrey Terrell invites
and encourages the entire community to join the NAACP
and vote in the upcoming election. Terrell is seeking a
second term.
Portland NAACP Unit 1120 has been brought back to
life and is steadily growing in membership. The organi
zation is in full compliance with the NAACP State Con
ference and at the National level.
Terrell says the group has also increased its partici
pation in community activities, sponsoring its first
Women of Honor Luncheon, First Pastors Breakfast,
and sponsored and participated in the 50th anniver
sary in the historical 1964 March on Washington.
The group has held educational forums on afford
able health care, met and conferred with stakeholders
of the Trader Joes Project, and worked with the Albina
Ministerial Alliance and the Department of Justice on
the Settlement Agreement over police reforms. NAACP
youth have surged in membership, meeting regularly
and holding their own “Stop the Violence Rallies.”
The Portland NAACP also sponsors various TV
cable productions covering local candidates and
issues. It has a radio segment on KBOO and works
with other organizations such as the Urban League
of Portland.
For more information, visit portlandnaacp 1120.org.
Daimler Civil Rights Probe Grows
More employees
at truck facility
step forward
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A civil rights investigation of
Daimler Trucks at its Swan Island
manufacturing plant in north Port
land was expanded for the second
time last week as four more employ
ees have stepped forward to allege
unlawful discrimination.
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and
Industries said the new civil rights
complaints add to the agency’s in
vestigation o f whether a pattern of
racial discrimination and abuse ex
ists at Daimler. In total, nine Daimler
employees have open civil rights
complaints, in addition to a com
plaint filed last month by Labor
Commissioner Brad Avakian on
behalf of the people of Oregon.
Besides the allegations of racial
discrim ination against African
American employees, the com
plaints include charges that a Na
tive Am erican em ployee faced
threats of physical violence and
intimidation as another employee
pushed him against a truck and chal
lenged him to a fight.
Other allegations include unfair
treatment, discrimination based on
race, national origin and age, use of
racial epithets, retaliation and fail
ure of management to take appropri
ate action to improve Daimler’s
workplace.
“Our investigators are working
hard to determine whether there’s
evidence of a pattern of severe ra
cial discrimination and abuse,” said
Avakian. “We have a duty to en
sure that employees are treated fairly
on the job. Our investigations will
be thorough - and if we find sub
stantial evidence, we will aggres
sively prosecute any unlawful dis
crimination uncovered.”
Earlier, the director of public rela
tions at Daimler, Dave Giroux, re
leased a statement that the com
pany “has a zero tolerance policy
related to discrimination or harass
ment on any basis” but said that
they could not release any official
statements on the current ongoing
investigation.