We are a statewide, grassroots coalition of labor, environmental, and other organizations working together to fight continued corporate-driven globalization (which occurs, pivotally, through trade agreements) and to win the genuinely better alternative, which is human-rights- and workers’-rights-linked commercial and foreign policy.
We believe in mass-participatory, bottom-up social change that lifts up everyone’s condition — as our fates are tied together, across regions, issue areas, and cultures. We lead Oregon’s policymaking and visioning for trade justice, along the principle of putting people and planet before profit.
We were founded in 2004 by the Oregon AFL-CIO and Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club. We are an affiliate of Citizens Trade Campaign.
Member organizations include
AFSCME Council 75
American Federation of Teachers – Oregon
Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers
Alliance for Democracy – Portland
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers’ International Union – Local 114
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers’ International Union – Local 364
Carpenters Local 1503
Communication Workers of America Oregon State Council
Democratic Socialists of America – Portland
Eugene/Springfield Solidarity Network
Greenpeace USA
ILWU Oregon Area District Council
Jubilee Oregon
Machinists Lodge 63
Machinists Lodge 1005
National Association of Letter Carriers – Branch 82
Northwest Oregon Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Oregon AFL-CIO
Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club
Oregon Working Families Party
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Portland Jobs with Justice
SEIU Local 49
SEIU Local 503
Society of Professional Engineers and Employees in Aerospace/IFPTE 2001
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
Teamsters Joint Council 37
UFCW Local 555
United Steelworkers Oregon Legislative Education Committee
WFP Solidarity Collective Northwest
EQUITY PRINCIPLE:
Oregon Fair Trade Campaign is committed to embracing, respecting, and honoring differences and commonalities in ethnicity, race, economic background, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical ability, and religious affiliation. Our organization is comprised of diverse individuals who value inclusivity with the development and implementation of activities to accomplish our mission. Our democratically structured activities amplify voices within communities disproportionately impacted by the negative impacts of multinational free trade agreements.
Areas of Measurement
Organization – Inclusive of people from various racial, ethnic, age, and socioeconomic backgrounds as well as physical abilities, sexual orientations, gender identities and religious affiliations.
Process – Create educational, outreach, civic engagement, and direct action activities through democratic processes grounded in community involvement.
Activities – Empower community stakeholders retaining first-hand knowledge and experience of the negative outcomes of free trade agreements to serve in leadership roles within the organization.
Justice – Promote coalition, community, and volunteer engagement with controversial and timely issues leading to substantive organizing and action for trade policy that prioritizes social, economic, racial, LGBTQ, and environmental justice.
Inclusion Principle
Oregon Fair Trade Campaign values diversity and inclusion as the foundation for effectively educating and empowering community involvement with promoting labor, human and civil rights, and environmental protections in trade policy.
Areas of Measurement
Diversity – Prioritize building upon diversity within Oregon Fair Trade Campaign’s coalition partners, membership, staff, Board of Directors, interns, and volunteers.
Democracy – Actively promote coalition partner and community inclusion in developing organizational activities while actively encouraging quality assurance through continually seeking community input.
Community – Strengthen focus on justice issues among workers and within communities disproportionately impacted by inequities directly linked to free trade agreements.
Access – Organizational involvement that is open to and inclusive of all.
Oregon Fair Trade Campaign
2701 SE 14th Ave, Ste E
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 736-9777 · info[at]oregonfairtrade.org