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Politics
Labor to Congress: Don’t fall for ‘fiscal bluff’
Sometimes a bad deal is worse than no deal.
Politics
Election Day 2012 Labor wins in Oregon, Washington, and coast to coast
It was a good election year for labor in state and federal races.
Politics
Union workers stand in Philadelphia, and hear from Obama
40,000 rally, prior to the party conventions, to call for a second Bill of Rights.
Workers Rights
Unions launch global boycott of Hyatt
Hyatt turned heatlamps on Chicago picketers and fired unionized Boston housekeepers en masse.
Trade
AFL-CIO pushes tax break to “bring jobs home”
The Bring Jobs Home Act would also end tax deductibility for offshoring expenses.
Building our communities
AFL holds three days of events for Work Connects Us All campaign
Free comedy show and ‘thank-a-worker’ events take place during Portland Jazz Fest.
National
AFL-CIO will launch online campaign Nov. 14 in Portland
The labor federation's media campaign is aimed at putting unions in a more positive light.
National
Movement swells to dump big banks
Parallel to Occupy Wall Street, a mass movement is gaining steam to close accounts in the big banks.
National
We are the 99 percent: Unions get behind the Occupy movement
Unions line up in support of Occupy Wall Street as the movement explodes.
Union democracy
Washington labor convenes in SeaTac for jam-packed convention
The state AFL-CIO released its ranking of Washington lawmakers, and it wasn't pretty.
Oregon/Washington
AFL-CIO tallies slew of anti-union votes in Congress
The national AFL-CIO has released its interim rating of members of Congress for 2011.
Oregon/Washington
AFL-CIO’s Union Summer returns to Portland
Portland has been selected one of eight cities to host Union Summer, a 10-week national AFL-CIO internship program for college students.
Trade
Schrader favors Korea trade deal, balks at TRADE Act
Congressman Kurt Schrader told labor leaders he is undecided on trade deals with Colombia and Panama.
Workers Rights
At UNITE HERE, gay rights leader bridges two movements
Gay civil rights leader Cleve Jones was a star guest April 20 at the kickoff of the newly-chartered Oregon chapter of Pride At Work.
Worker safety
OSHA pulls rule on reporting ergonomics injuries
OSHA will hold off asking employers to record musculoskeletal disorders like carpal tunnel on a form they already fill out.
National
Voters in four states ban union ‘card-check’
Voters in four Republican-dominated states passed measures Nov. 2 to ban the “card check” method of unionizing. But the measures may be struck down in the courts, because they encroach on rights protected by the National Labor Relations Act.
Politics
AFL-CIO Poll: Voters punished Dems, but no mandate for GOP
Though Republican victories in the 2010 elections will put the union Congressional agenda in jeopardy, labor leaders took some consolation from a pair of election night polls commissioned by the national AFL-CIO.
Trade
Obama hasn’t lived up to campaign promises on trade
There was a moment during the 2008 presidential campaign when an American union worker could believe Barack Obama would chart a new course on trade policy. Those hopes have faded.
Oregon
Portland meeting with Trumka and Kitzhaber draws over 500
National AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka, on a Aug. 23-24 visit to Portland, rallied local union activists to stay politically active despite disappointments, and to help elect John Kitzhaber as governor of Oregon.
