From info at pcasc.net Fri Feb 17 19:19:15 2006 From: info at pcasc.net (Daniel Denvir) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:19:15 -0800 Subject: [Sweat-Free-PDX] Coalition invite letter Message-ID: Hello All, I thought that last night's meeting was great, but we all have to get working really hard on our outreach homework. Below is a letter that you can use to invite organizations and individuals to the next coalition meeting. We should know where we're meeting by this upcoming Tuesday. Let's get to work on outreach! Dan Dear Allies: We invite you to join the Sweat Free PDX coalition to pass a sweat-shop free government procurement ordiance. We seek to end public taxpayer subsidies of sweatship contractors and subcontractors. Our city can ensure living wages and working conditions for those producing goods for us. Los Angeles and San Francisco have already adopted sweat-free ordinances with a living wage standard and a budge of $100,000 for staffing and independent monitoring to ensure that good intentions are translated into good results. With letters and calls to decision-makers, educational house parties and community events, lobby days and other grassroots actions, we hope to pass legislation with adequate funding in Portland by the end of the year, if not sooner. The first step in this campaign is to establish genuinely broad and diverse coalition of organizations that believe in social justice, labor rights, and responsible use of local tax dollars in a global economy. Please join the Sweat Free PDX coalition. Member organizations of the coalition are encouraged to send a representative to coalition meetings. The next meeting will be: Monday February 27 at 7PM Location TBA Portland Central America Solidarity Committee and Cross Border Labor Organizing Coalition 616 E. Burnside, Portland, Oregon 97214 Tel: 503-236-7916 E-mail: info at pcasc.net www.pcasc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1852 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.enabled.com/pipermail/sweat-free-pdx/attachments/20060217/496bdd2e/attachment.bin From info at pcasc.net Tue Feb 21 16:34:43 2006 From: info at pcasc.net (Daniel Denvir) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:34:43 -0800 Subject: [Sweat-Free-PDX] Outreach Reminder Message-ID: This is a reminder to please try to make all of your outreach calls and emails in the next few days. Also, if you leave a message or send an email, try to follow up! Here's the list of everyone's outreach commitments... Dan Outreach: Labor - Jobs with Justice - OEA (Gavin) and PAT (Dan) - AFSCME (Lydia) - CWA (Dan) - AFT (Gavin) - AFGE (Dan) - Teamsters 206 (Jason to Tom Leedham) - Teamsters Joint Council 37 (Gavin to Lynn Lerbach) - Teamsters 162 (Chris) - Carpenters 247 (Jason Sheckler) - Laborers 483 and 296 (Jason Sheckler) - SEIU 49 (Dan to David and Andy to Amanda in Healthcare) - SEIU 503 o District 1 (Michael G.) - UNITE HERE local 9 (Gavin will talk to Jeff, Dan will talk to Gloria Gonzalez (where?s Bobby?), Barbara Mejia-NW Regional) - Judy O?Connor and Bob Petroff (NW Labor Council) (Gavin and Michael) - Tom Chamberlain (Gavin, Michael, Dan, Lydia will go to Ken) - Andy Lehn (Michael) - ILWU local 8 (Michael to Dave Straighter and Dan to Jack Mulcachy) - ILWU local 5 (Michael) - IBU (Chris) - Letter Carriers (Michael to LC, Dan, Shizuko and Chris to Jamie Partridge) - APWU (Dan) - IBEW (Gavin) - PCUN (Abram and Ramon) - IWW (PCASC) - Steelworkers (Andreina) - Sheet Metal Workers (AFSCME, Kerri) - UAW (Chris) - Machinists (Kerri) - OPEIU (Michael) - OEIU (Michael) - AAUP (Lew) - UFCW (Chris) - PFTCE (Dan to Marianne through PAT) - Working America - ENLACE Student - General (Lew) o Ask USAS o OSAS - High School (Lew) o Lila o Students for Peace and Justice o MECHA (Shiz and Andreina) o El Program Hispana (Shiz and Andreina) o George Bishop at Jefferson (Abram) o Sisters in Action for Power (Andreina) - Lewis and Clark o OPP (Dan) o Lewis and Clark Democrats (Gavin) o Law School Democrats (Gavin) o NLG (law school) (Michael G) - Reed (Dan) o RSPAN o LSU o MRC o SAO o FSU - University of Portland o That guy who comes to PCASC meeting (Dan) o WRC U of P (Lew) o Michael on the Archdiocese - PSU (Lew and Dan) o OSPIRG o MECHA o UISIHE o SFU o PSU o Las Mujeres o College Democrats o ASAPSU o AAUP PSU o PSU Lutherans o PSU Catholics o Amnesty International o Asian Student Groups Faith - Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (Lew, Dan) - Jubilee Oregon (Lew) - Quakers (Gavin) o Reedwood Friends o Multnomah Monthly Meeting (Peace and Social Concerns Committee) o Bridge City Friends Meeting o FCNL - UU (David Delk) - AFSC (Lew and Dan) - Muslim (Dan to CIO) o Sufi ( o ? - United Church of Christ (David Delk) - Jewish (Michael G.) o B?nai Orr o Jews for Global Justice o Patricia Sheckter (Lew) - Methodist (David through Kate Lore) - Episcopalian (David through Kate Lore) - Lutheran (David through Kate Lore) - Albina Ministerial Alliance (David??) - Imago Dei (Anne) - Oh For Christs Sake (Noah) - MCC (Noah) - Catholic (Dan via EPH, VOZ, JWJ Faith/Labor) o David Kerry from the Archdiocese (ask about U of P) o EPH o Catholic Worker (Lew) o St. Phillip Neri (Andreina) o St. Andrews (David) Social Justice and Progressive - Sisters of the Road (Lew) - Sierra Club (Dan) - EJAG - CSA (Emmit) Women?s Organizations - In Other Words (Andreina) - Portland NOW (Andreina) - WILPF (David Delk) - Code Pink (David Delk) - Radical Women (Lew) - NW Women?s Journal (Lew) Political Orgs - Center for Intercultural Organizing (Dan) - Portland Vision Committee (Gavin) - Physicians for Social Resp (Lew) - League of Women Voters (Lew) - Oregon Action (Dan to JoAnne Bowman) - City Club (also on trade?) (*Long term target: Gavin will start that conversation) - Wake Up Wal-Mart (Laurie) - Gresham First (Laurie) - Sellwood First (Laurie) - Democracy for Oregon/Democracy for American (Gavin) - NWPC (David) - Neighborhood Associations (Later: Long Term) - Alliance for Democracy (David) - Green Empowerment (Gavin) - TLC Farm (Gavin) - Self Enhancement Institute (Long Term - Greens (David) - Rainbow Coalition (Louis) - NWRAGE - Democrats (Gavin) o Multnomah County Democrats o Washington County Democrats o Eastside Democratic Club (David, too) Immigrant (PCASC) - VOZ - PCUN - CAUSA - AFSC - EPH - CIO (and other orgs through) Portland Central America Solidarity Committee and Cross Border Labor Organizing Coalition 616 E. Burnside, Portland, Oregon 97214 Tel: 503-236-7916 E-mail: info at pcasc.net www.pcasc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Since we wanted the next meeting (scheduled for Monday 2-27) to discuss the content of the SF ordinance and it is just now available?and since we have not heard of a meeting site yet, I would suggest that we ?postpone the meeting for a week until 3-6.? That we allow one additional week to make more contacts and get larger turnout and allow everyone an opportunity to read the SF ordinance.? And we might figure out where to meet. David e. Delk, Co-Chair Alliance for Democracy - Portland Chapter 503 232 5495 www.afd-pdx.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.enabled.com/pipermail/sweat-free-pdx/attachments/20060224/5d11618b/attachment.htm From info at pcasc.net Fri Feb 24 14:19:56 2006 From: info at pcasc.net (info at pcasc.net) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:19:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Sweat-Free-PDX] Meeting Location! Message-ID: <49193.71.34.105.66.1140819596.squirrel@mail.revoltltd.org> Hello All, We'll be meeting at the VOZ office in St. Francis Church as the other space fell through. I apoligize for the confusion. Monday Feb. 27 @ 7PM 1131 SE Oak St. (12th and Oak) I know this has made outreach difficult but please, re-double your efforts! Dan From info at pcasc.net Mon Feb 27 11:30:36 2006 From: info at pcasc.net (Daniel Denvir) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:30:36 -0800 Subject: [Sweat-Free-PDX] Meeting Tonight! Message-ID: Hello all, We'll be meeting tonight at the VOZ office: Monday Feb. 27 @ 7PM 1131 SE Oak St. (12th and Oak) Please send any agenda items to Gavin White at chair at multdems.org BRING YOUR NEW PEOPLE! In Solidarity, Dan Portland Central America Solidarity Committee and Cross Border Labor Organizing Coalition 616 E. 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URL: http://lists.enabled.com/pipermail/sweat-free-pdx/attachments/20060227/e869edd6/attachment.htm From info at pcasc.net Mon Feb 27 21:14:32 2006 From: info at pcasc.net (Daniel Denvir) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:14:32 -0800 Subject: [Sweat-Free-PDX] New Meeting Date, Time and Place Message-ID: <782bfc5338d504978e917ff234891761@pcasc.net> Unfortunately, this last meeting turned out to be sort of an exercise in confusion. The meeting was cancelled and has been tentatively re-scheduled to Monday March 13, 6 PM at the PCASC office (616 E. Burnside). Please email me if that doesn't work for you. Also, here are some updates. Below is a summary of the current city contracting situation that has been researched. In addition, a list of all apparel vendors and all vendors who have signed contracts with the city in the last 750 days is attached. Sweat Free PDX: What we know so far. ? The City has a fair wage policy as it pertains to formal service contracts entered into by the City of Portland for janitorial, security, and parking attendant services as outlined in City Code 3.99 http://www.portlandonline.com/auditor/?&c=ciegc. This does not explicitly address unionization. ? The City follows State requirements regarding prevailing wage rates in construction contracts over $50,000 - http://www.boli.state.or.us/BOLI/WHD/PWR/index.shtml.? ? The city also has some specific fair contracting initiatives focused on improving contracting parity with woman and minority-owned businesses, namely construction. These policies do not address collective bargaining, wage or working condition issues. http://www.portlandonline.com/omf/index.cfm?c=27355&. ? The city has specific policies around environmental sustainability and contracting. http://www.portlandonline.com/omf/index.cfm?c=37732 ? 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