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Oral history interview with Margaret Butler [Session 05]
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- 2018-07-10 (Creation)
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WAV; 01:28:47
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Margaret Helen Butler was born in Portland, Oregon, 1957. She began her career in labor rights advocacy while she was a student working at the Multnomah County library. In 1980, she graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a bachelor's degree in history. She worked as a telephone operator for Pacific Northwest Bell, and became involved with the Communications Workers of America Local 7901. In 1990, she was elected vice president of the CWA Local 7901. In 1991, she and Rich Peppers were married; they later had one child. That same year, she helped form the Portland coalition of Jobs with Justice, and became its executive director in 1996, a role she served in until her retirement in 2013. In 2014, she became executive director of the American Association of University Professors of Oregon.
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Session 5. In the fifth interview session, conducted on July 10, 2018, Butler looks at and talks about photographs from several JwJ actions, including at Powell's Books, at the Parry Center, and at Providence hospital. She discusses the work of JwJ after the 2008 financial crisis, talks about photographs of those activities, and discusses JwJ's work on immigrant rights. She describes their fundraising Grinch parties, which are now called Scrooge parties, talks about conflicts between labor organizations, and shares her reasons for retiring in 2013. She talks about conflicts within JwJ after she left, and shares her thoughts about the future of the labor movement.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- eng
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- Bisgyer, Madeline (Contributor)