Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee

Labor Solidarity Committee: Mission Statement

The purpose of the Labor Solidarity Committee is to facilitate communication and relationship building between labor and Occupy Portland. Labor and Unions are an essential part of the Occupy Movement and it is the goal of the Labor Solidarity Committee to make sure that they are included as much as possible.

Get Involved

OP Labor Outreach Committee Meeting

• Date: Every Friday
• Time: 5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
• Location: Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church at 1131 SE Oak Street
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Purpose

Need volunteers to facilitate & take notes.

Proposed Agenda

1. Review our committee work, the process for taking on work and moving it forward, and identify changes we should make now to prepare for a busy spring.

Current Work

- Community Assembly to Create a People's Budget - May 5th, First Unitarian Church

- East County Education Support

Future/Possible Work

- Unemployed organizing

- Labor Education

- Occupy/Labor Panel or conference

- Workers struggles: PSU Student workers, New Seasons workers

Other details
See Also:

• Community Assembly to Create a People's Budget
• Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee
• Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee

Facebook Pages

• Occupy Portland Labor Solidarity Committee
• Community Assembly to Create a People's Budget
  
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Historical

Incomplete list.

• Meeting Notes: Occupy Portland Labor Solidarity Committee - Friday, 3 February 2012, 5:45 - 7pm, St. Francis
• Labor Outreach Committee Meeting - Friday 16 December 2011
• Labor Outreach Committee Meeting Friday 9 December 2011
• Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee Meeting 7 December 2011
• Labor Outreach Committee Meeting Friday 2 December 2011
• Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee Meeting 30 November 2011
• Labor Outreach Committee Meeting 18 November 2011
• Emergency Labor Outreach Committee Meeting 14 November 2011
• Labor Solidarity March 10 26 2011

Labor Support of Occupy Portland

Letter Carriers Support Occupy Portland!
“We share the common value of people over profits, not the corporate value of profit over people. Know that we the letter carriers of the NALC Branch 82, Portland, Oregon, stand with you in this important time and this fight for the rights of the many, not the few.”

Solidarity Forever!
Laborers' Local 483 unites with Occupy Portland. "You are the hope for the future."

• Laborers’ Local 483 Unites with Occupy Portland
• National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 82 Supports Occupy Portland
• Working America in Oregon is Proud to Endorse Occupy Portland
• Painters Local 10 Stands in Support of Occupy Portland
• United Association Local 290 Plumbers and Steamfitters Stands in Support of the Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations

External Links

• Google Group
• Weblog Post

Related Articles

• America Wants to Work Action Plan
• The Jobs Crisis: What Did Roosevelt Do That Obama Should?
• Put 15 Million Back to Work Fixing $2.2 Trillion in Infrastructure: Resurrect the Works Progress Administration
• Labor Must Choose Between Occupy and the Democrats

The Occupy Movement recognizes the dire economic situation the country is in and is not held back by mainstream politicians. This gives the Occupy Movement an amazing chance to lead labor down the right path. There is a wide gulf between the demands that the labor movement and the Democratic Party are putting forward and what working people desperately need. Occupy would not exist were this not the case.

• The Battles of Occupy Portland

The Occupy Movement will be crushed if the demands being fought for do not connect with working people. A key characteristic of any powerful social movement is the appearance of successive, large demonstrations that draw in new layers of working people, students, and the elderly. The average working person feels impelled to join such a movement because they see their own interests reflected in the movement, and once they join they learn that their interests are the same as those of the others involved.

• AFL-CIO urges unions to treat Occupy DC as picket line
• Occupy Movement Inspires Unions to Embrace Bold Tactics
• Crippling the Right to Organize

UNLESS something changes in Washington, American workers will, on New Year’s Day (2012), effectively lose their right to be represented by a union.

More News & Views

• Where next for Occupy?

Let us name, then, the underlying object of the protests’ discontent. It is a society that fundamentally isn’t working, a system that coerces us into ruining the planet and exploiting its people, denying us life and liberty if we refuse to comply, and sometimes withholding them even if we do comply. It is a society where life is a little bleaker, gaudier, uglier, less authentic, and less hopeful with each passing year. It is a system of winners and losers, in which even the winners are less happy than a typical Ladakhi peasant or Amazonian hunter-gatherer. It is a society of pretense, image, and illusion. It is a society where more human energy goes to war than to art. Most tellingly, it is a society where it is normal to hate Monday. The discontent behind the protests comes from the conviction, “We can do better than this!”

Hostile Forces

• Anti-union call between Bank of America, Bernie Marcus, et al. and Rick Berman, 17 Oct 2008

Summary: On 27 Jan 2009, the Huffington Post ran a story by Sam Stein titled "Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill". The story included around five minutes of an hour long recording between federal bailout funds recipients. The call shows the firms to be involved in lobbying, effectively, with public money. The file released here is the full hour long recording.

See Also

• D12 2011
• Occupy Portland Stands In Solidarity with Labor
• Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee
• Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee Mission Statement
• Trade Unions
• Portland Union Wiki
• Jobs with Justice
• Organized Power
• Portland General Strike