Workers protest Bush policies

Several dozen union activists joined a crowd of several thousand Aug. 21 outside the University of Portland, where Bush was attending a $2,000-a-plate luncheon to raise money for his 2004 presidential campaign.

Leaders of organized labor have complained of an unending assault by the Bush Administration, from trying to undo project labor agreements to negotiating anti-labor trade agreements to busting the union for hundreds of thousands of federal employees. The AFL-CIO has compiled the Administration’s record on union issues. It is available at www.aflcio.org.

The Oregon AFL-CIO responded to Bush’s visit with a written statement, noting that since Bush took office in January 2001, 3.1 million private sector jobs have been lost — the worst job losses under any president since Herbert Hoover. Some 50,800 of those were Oregon jobs.

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