Oregon Anti-Union Activist Jailed
Anti-union activist Bill Sizemore, a three-time loser on Oregon ballot measures to silence working family voters, was jailed Dec. 1 for contempt of court in a case related to his failed 2000 paycheck deception ballot measure.
Don McIntosh, associate editor of the Northwest Labor Press reports:
It was his fourth contempt of court charge relating to an eight-year-old lawsuit by two teachers’ unions against Sizemore’s ballot measure operation. After a 2002 trial, a jury found that two Sizemore-run groups were guilty of a pattern of fraud and forgery in getting anti-union measures on the 2000 ballot. Sizemore was ordered to pay $2.5 millions in damages to the Oregon Education Association and the AFT/Oregon, which had spent money to fight the measures. And the judge issued a detailed injunction barring Sizemore personally from committing similar acts.
