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Use tax dollars to incentivize the creation of middle wage green jobs

The emerging clean economy can be the keystone of a good wage and benefit strategy.

Making roadway construction zones safer

More roadway construction workers are killed each year by construction equipment and vehicles than by on-road vehicles. How can we make it safer?

Replace NAFTA, don’t make it worse

Can President Trump deliver on his pledge to make trade agreements better for American workers?

A new era in American unionism

What might a post-Janus world look like? West Virginia just gave us a glimpse.

The lessons of 1968 still matter today

Dr. King’s vision of unifying economic and racial justice cannot be forgotten.

The Strength of Standing Together

The lessons of 2017 can teach us a lot about how to move forward.

Making the labor movement safe for all workers

High-ranking union officials used positions of power to pressure women subordinates for sexual favors. That's unacceptable.

Trickle-down Trump

President Trump’s tax cut proposal is a continuation of President Reagan’s failed tax plan, or “Trickle Down Economics.”

Labor Day: It’s about solidarity

When unions stand together to move an agenda, great things happen for workers.

Some wins, some major disappointments in Legislature

Oregon deserves better.

Protecting Oregon’s rural workers

Oregon's Legislature just passed a law that will prevent cities and counties from trying to pass anti-union "right-to-work" legislation.

Investing in transportation will benefit working people

To tackle potholes and congestion, Oregon Legislature needs to hear from union members about a proposed $8.2 billion transportation package.

GOP Congressman Greg Walden moves further to the right

Twenty years ago, when Greg Walden was in the Oregon Legislature, he was viewed as a moderate Republican.

It’s time for rent stabilization. Support House Bill 2004

Oregon’s low inventory of housing has given landlords an unbridled opportunity to reap large profits at the expense of working people.

What we see today in the streets is an insurgency of epic proportions

If this grassroots movement can be maintained and grow, the 2018 election will bring change.

GOP ramping up to dismantle the labor movement

Every one of us has an obligation to fight as hard as we can, to get off the couch and activate and agitate.

To our union volunteers: Thank You!

Volunteers from more than 30 Oregon unions knocked on 100,000 doors, made 260,000 phone calls, and handed out 2,800 worksite fliers.

Dennis Richardson is too extreme for Oregon

Richardson has been an outspoken opponent of a working people’s agenda.

Ballot Measure 97: It’s time

By Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain Last Friday afternoon my commute to Salem from the Oregon AFL-CIO office in Portland was an hour and forty-five...

All politics is local

Local action spurring statewide and eventually national change is what the labor movement is all about.
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