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The addition of Rebekah Whittaker and Janet Bauer means LERC can expand its reach of research and trainings.

Gordon Lafer says the federal government should put workers’ rights conditions on the coming billions in subsidy.

Bob Bussel did security for Cesar Chavez. He had lunch with the real Norma Rae. And he spent 27 years training generations of labor leaders.

Local union apprenticeship programs have had much more success than non-union getting Black, Hispanic, and women workers into construction.

Sherman Henry and Lina Stepick leave LERC, ONA’s director departs, and Mayor Wheeler reappoints Willy Myers to Prosper Portland.

After a decade and a half at Oregon and California nurses unions, he spent most of his career mediating and arbitrating labor disagreements.

The only statewide law of its kind, SB 828 was meant to make workers’ schedules more predictable, but a UO study shows it’s falling short.

Deutsch was one of the founders of the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center.

After 41 years as a labor educator and 14 years at the Oregon AFL-CIO, Barbara Byrd is retiring for real.

The union training and research center is slated for a 45 percent cut.