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Oregon voters have a lot of choices. This is a guide to which candidates want—and deserve—the support of union members and working people.

Oregon’s biggest and most politically active unions appear to be throwing their support behind a progressive challenger.

Two of the nine candidates running for Oregon’s new Sixth Congressional District have union endorsements, and two others have union ties.

In the Oregon governor’s race, those unions that have endorsed in the Democratic primary are lining up in support of Tina Kotek.

Of 19 GOP candidates for Oregon governor, a few have history with unions—stark opposition, or membership, but none have union endorsements.

Highlights include overtime protections for farm and bakery workers, $600 checks to essential workers, and $200 million for apprenticeships.

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.

The endorsements were decided by hundreds of delegates at a two-day virtual convention of the union’s political action committee.

The latest unions to endorse the former Oregon House speaker are Northwest Carpenters and SEIU Locals 503 and 49, totaling 96,000 members.