Labor headlines from the November 1, 2002, edition of the Northwest Labor Press
ILWU offers to unload World Series
cameras for free, but shippers refuse
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The hard-line management association at Pacific Coast ports didn't even let San Francisco's baseball fans take World Series photos.
Countdown to Election Day
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Union members knocked on more than 4,000 union household doors with information on the candidates and labor-endorsed Ballot Measure 25 (to raise the minimum wage) and Measure 26 (to clean up the initiative process).
UFCW 555 re-elects Pronovost,
Clay
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Gene Pronovost has been re-elected president of Tigard-based United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, the largest private-sector union in Oregon. He defeated opponent Rich Sitowski of Eugene, capturing 72 percent of the vote.
Two Oregon SEIU locals join fight
to deflate Rx prices
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Two Service Employees International Union locals from Oregon have joined the Prescription Access Litigation project, a national organization that is fighting drug companies in court for what they maintain have illegally inflated the price of prescription medicines.
Utah economist debunks high-costs
ascribed to Davis-Bacon
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A nationally-respected economist and researcher of state and federal prevailing wage laws shared some of his findings with Oregon lawmakers, contractors and union officials Oct. 16 at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Portland.
UAW cautions customers at scab-run
Williams Controls
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Williams Controls, a Tigard-based manufacturer of electronic throttle controls for trucks, has been struck since Sept. 9.
Union-busting consultant Jim
Frazer strikes again
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A nationally-respected economist and researcher of state and federal prevailing wage laws shared some of his findings with Oregon lawmakers, contractors and union officials Oct. 16 at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Portland.
LERC professor says job training
not solution to unemployment
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Union membership plays bigger role in wage rates than education.
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