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Interview session 3, 2018 March 19

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Scope and Contents

Tape 2, Side 2, to partway through Tape 3, Side 2. In the third interview session, conducted on March 19, 2018, Dale further discusses the 1987 rolling strike. She talks about legislation regarding the ability of public employees to conduct collective bargaining, and about legislation regarding the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). She speaks extensively about organizing home care workers into SEIU Local 503. She discusses lobbying the Oregon Legislature to raise the minimum wage. She shares her reasons for leaving Local 503 to become a trustee for Local 49, representing janitors and hospital workers, and discusses a failed campaign to organize health-care workers at Providence Hospital into the union. Matthews also shares her experience as a Providence employee during the campaign.

Dates

  • Creation: 2018 March 19

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

1.25 audiocassettes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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