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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.

About 1,100 Alabama miners are putting their livelihoods on the line for dignity and justice in a fight with America’s biggest hedge funds.

It was Congress that put the U.S. Postal Service at risk with a retiree medical pre-funding mandate. Now Congress has stepped in to save it.

Past decisions suggest Ketanji Brown Jackson—who’d replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer—will side with unions and working people.

Union leaders winced when they learned a labor champion was leaving Congress. Now a candidate with strong labor ties looks to succeed him.

Since 2020, redistricting has made Oregon’s 5th Congressional District more favorable terrain for progressives.

HR 3076 would end the $5 billion yearly prepayment of future retirees’ health care costs, a requirement which causes nearly all USPS losses.