Politics

Labor defends light rail, but it's not enough.

New “community benefits agreement” uses public construction spending as a public policy tool

40,000 rally, prior to the party conventions, to call for a second Bill of Rights.

Jay Inslee, a former Democratic congressman, was the top vote-getter for governor.

She’s up against Tea Party candidate John Ludlow to head Oregon's third-largest county.

Oregon AFL-CIO backs dozens of candidates and an end to corporate kicker, opposes estate tax ban.

Unions back corporate kicker, marijuana, and casino measures, and oppose estate tax ban.

Labor council backs Joe Tanner and Roman Battan for Clark County Commission

Our Oregon's initiative is one of at least eight with a chance to make the Oregon ballot.

Jamie Partridge and seven others will fast four days in DC to protest postal cuts.

The UFCW rep says he will run for re-election.

No established Democrat has filed to run against the one-term anti-union Republican Congresswoman.

Nationwide rallies were held as a show of strength against recent threats to women’s rights.

Each of the three leading candidates has some labor support.

Both incumbent Amanda Fritz and challenger Mary Nolan were once union-represented workers.

The operating levy is needed to keep branches open.

‘I am not a convicted racketeer!’ Bill Sizemore declares in new federal lawsuit.

Eileen Brady has five labor endorsements, Charlie Hales has one, and Jefferson Smith has two.

The AFL is standing by Mike Schaufler and Bob Jenson; most endorsees have no primary opponents.

The building trades back Dwight Holton for attorney general and make picks for Oregon Legislature.