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Next week, voters in 37 states will consider 132 ballot measures. Those include a handful of labor-related items.

Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertsons, QFC and 40 other chains could become one company under the proposed deal.

A new national labor media organization debuted last year. It’s making corporations and union busters tremble.

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.

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.

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.

Joe Biden isn’t getting a lot of love these days. But so far the record is clear: Labor has never had such a friend in the White House.