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MLBPA’s affiliation comes as the national AFL-CIO is paying increased attention to sports unions, and recently created a Sports Council.

In his latest vocal support for unions, Joe Biden spent Labor Day talking up the labor movement at appearances in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

The Worker Organizing Resource and Knowledge Center bills itself as a one-stop shop for information on unions and collective bargaining.

A greatly scaled down Build Back Better bill will still spur climate jobs, cut drug prices, and limit corporate tax avoidance.

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The spike in new organizing activity is straining a labor board that’s already short-staffed and underfunded.

Local plasterers and members of OPEIU Local 11 have reason to rejoice after final rules for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Fund were announced.

As many as 4,000 labor activists – including 100 from Portland – gathered in Chicago June 16-19 for the national Labor Notes conference.

A bill in Congress would end an unintentional tax benefit for corporations that try to stop their employees from unionizing.

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With labor activity on the rise this year, 40 U.S. senators say the National Labor Relations Board needs more funding to keep up.

In 1993 U of O grad Liz Shuler went to work at Portland-based IBEW Local 125, her father’s local. Today she’s America’s top union leader.