Oregon AFL-CIO

Lawmakers will push to lessen outsourcing, put trades to work, and divest from Wall Street banks.

The state labor fed also issues early endorsement for labor commissioner.

The event was part of the AFL-CIO’s "America Wants to Work" national week of action.

An Oregon AFL-CIO E-Board resolution condemning Operating Engineers Local 701 in a dispute with ILWU at Longview has been nullified by the national AFL-CIO.

A Sept. 26-28 meeting of the state labor federation will draw some of the state's top political figures.

Oregon Law Center plans to lay off a third of its unionized staff, as managers remain untouched.

Oregon lawmakers wrapped up the 2011 Legislative session June 30. If there was anything memorable in it for working people, it was that lawmakers finally cut corporate tax breaks down to size … except when they were giving out new ones. It was also the year that the Oregon Legislature gave state agencies a new aspirational goal: Lay off managers, not just front-line state employees. In a state with 9.6 percent unemployment, the closest lawmakers got to passing a jobs bill was a pilot project that will employ some workers on energy efficiency retrofits of public schools, or maybe the new law removing procedural roadblocks to pipelines and other “linear” construction projects.

He joins ILWU's Bruce Holte and AFSCME's Ken Allen on the nine-member body.

The state association coordinates politics and education for about 3,300 urban letter carriers in locals around the state.