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A Senate win for Oregon workers

The Inflation Reduction Act has strong support from the American labor movement due to the benefits it includes for working people.

They believed in what they believed in

The example set by Bunny Kuiken reminds us that the immigrant working class is an integral part of our history.

Heat/smoke rules must be defended

As we saw with the heat wave in June 2021, human lives are on the line, and it is absolutely critical that we have strong rules in place. 

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

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

Reviving the Boycott

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

A proud moment for Oregon labor

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.

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

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

Worker justice delayed: The NLRB Blues

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

Reproductive justice is a labor issue

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

Manchin, Sinema, Kelly: Which side are you on?

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

Why Oregon labor is backing Christina Stephenson

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

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

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.

‘The union,’ or ‘Our union’?

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

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

What caused labor's decline, and is key to its revival? No answer has been more persuasive than the one I got from a guy named Joe in 2011.

Let ‘partners’ become partners

Have you noticed we don’t have workers in America anymore? Instead, we have associates, team members, crew members, and partners.

We’re here now, and we must act

When Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, it excluded farmworkers, who at the time were primarily African Americans.

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

Why do unions always support Democrats? It’s a really good question, and one that a lot of union members have asked over the years.

Biden’s new NLRB shows what real enforcement looks like

Under Jennifer Abruzzo, the “new sheriff in town," Amazon, Starbucks and others have learned that powerful companies are not above the law.

Now is not the time

As much as we all want to move on, to put the pandemic behind us, now is not the time to relent. We must push on.

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

I’ve been given a sacred responsibility— renewing this 122-year-old labor institution so that it can help rebuild our labor union community.
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