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National

New federal law will limit investor-bought homes

The new law will also promote pre-reviewed housing designs and eliminate a requirement that manufactured homes have a permanent chassis. 
National

Bill to speed up first union contracts passes House

The U.S. House passed a bill June 9 that would be the most significant reform to U.S. labor law in generations. 
National

Congress to vote on major labor law reform

A bill to speed up first union contracts is heading to a vote in Congress.
National

Oregon’s delegation to Congress is all or nothing on labor votes

All of Oregon's Congressional Democrats got 100% ratings from the AFL-CIO last year. So did Washington senators Cantwell and Murray.
National

GOP voter ID bill hits a partisan wall in the Senate

A bill requiring proof of citizenship for voting sparks a divide in Congress.
National

House members force a vote on a bill to reverse Trump federal union-busting

Trump’s order stripping union rights from up to 1 million federal workers is facing a bipartisan pushback in Congress.
National

Wyden Merkley sponsor bill to exempt strike fund pay from federal income tax

The Tax Cut for Striking Workers Act, a measure supported by the AFL-CIO, would make union strike benefits non-taxable.
Jobs

Congress cuts to CPB lead to end of NW nonprofit newsroom

After losing $3.5 million from CPB, Cascade PBS shut down Crosscut, laying off a dozen journalists including Lizz Giordano.
National

Senate GOP: No minimum wage increase

With the public in solid support of an increase, Bernie Sanders puts senators on the record, and not for the first time.
Workers Rights

Bipartisan bill would ensure that if workers unionize, they get a contract

Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley signed on to the bill, which was sponsored by Republican Josh Hawley of Missouri.
National

The do-nothing Congress

This most recent Congress was the least productive since before the Civil War — just 158 bills in two years.
Retirement

Congress restores Social Security to public workers

Thanks to end-of-session action by Congress, about 2.5 million local, state, and federal employees will have benefits restored.
National

GOP Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer backs pro-union ‘messaging bill’ that would dump Janus

The bill is thought to have zero chance of passing the GOP House, and didn't get a hearing when Democrats were in charge either.
Workers Rights

NLRB: No more dodging labor law with temp agencies and franchise structures

Workers will soon bargain with all companies that have a say in their working conditions — not just the one whose name is on their paycheck.
National

Back in charge, House Republicans cut ‘labor’ from committee name

In her opening salvo on the House floor, the committee chair made her hostility to the word labor and to unions crystal clear.
National

GOP House strips union rights from staff

The anti-union language was included in the first bill to pass the newly Republican-led chamber during the 118th Congress.
National

Biden and Congress force a contract on rail workers

History may remember the episode as a betrayal by the man who pledged to be the most pro-union president in U.S. history.
National

Major Senate Breakthrough

A greatly scaled down Build Back Better bill will still spur climate jobs, cut drug prices, and limit corporate tax avoidance.
National

Bill would end tax benefits for union busting

A bill in Congress would end an unintentional tax benefit for corporations that try to stop their employees from unionizing.
Union Organizing

U.S. House staffers win union rights

Congressional staffers have long had the right to unionize, in theory. Now, they’re getting the legal protection to do so.
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