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Over the last six months, an extraordinary union movement has had young workers defying long-held assumptions.

The consumer boycott should rejoin the use of strikes and walkouts as a form of “organized aggressive mass action” to pressure employers.

Liz Shuler’s re-election to her first full term as AFL-CIO president marks a historic and proud moment for the Oregon labor movement.

We can’t ask working people to pay more at the pump while billionaires are blasting off on private joy rides to outer space.

A recent surge in unionizing is bringing awareness to the National Labor Relations Board election process and employers’ anti-union tactics.

As the Supreme Court prepares to overturn Roe v. Wade, the labor community has a responsibility to stand up and fight back.

Last month’s U.S. Senate derailing of President Biden’s nominee David Weil was a sobering loss for the union movement.

One of the most significant elections for working Oregonians on the upcoming May ballot is the race for Oregon’s labor commissioner.

The AFL-CIO made a mistake, displaying the Ukrainian flag upside down. So did we. But union haters used that—in bad faith—to slam labor.

When members call their organizations “the union,” instead of “our union” it frames the union as an outside “third party.”