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Oregon AFL-CIO

Union Organizing

Bakers demand union recognition

At an industrial bakery in Gresham, low-wage workers want a union.
Comment

The minimum will rise

2015 was a year of victories and defeats for Oregon’s working people.
Workers Rights

Portland bans the box

Businesses will have to wait ’til after a conditional job offer to do criminal background checks.
People

Laborers’ Ben Nelson new Oregon AFL-CIO organizer

Nelson, a dedicated union organizer, was most recently Laborers Local 737 business manager.
Workers Rights

Oregon Democratic Congressman Kurt Schrader turning hostile to union rights

The Oregon Democrat backs bills to diminish workers’ right to unionize or tack collective action.
Comment

Our workers’ movement must evolve

Oregon Strong Voice is one example of labor evolving to fit the times.
Oregon

Union coalition gets ready for Round Two

Fair Shot will push a minimum wage and tougher laws on wage theft and racial profiling in 2016.
Union democracy

Oregon AFL-CIO resolves to ‘Fight for a Change’

Black Lives Matter, votes have consequences, and corporate taxes and the minimum wage must rise
Union democracy

ELECTED

It was Oregon governor Kate Brown who swore in newly elected AFL-CIO leaders.
Politics

Debate, but no endorsement

Brad Avakian, Richard Devlin, and Val Hoyle want labor's endorsement for Secretary of State.
Trade

Senator Jeff Merkley won’t be voting for the Trans-Pacific deal

Why? Because trade deficits have risen after virtually every trade agreement.
Union democracy

Biennial Oregon AFL-CIO convention will draw hundreds of unionists to Seaside

Members of Congress who voted in favor of Fast Track aren’t invited this year.
Union democracy

Oregon’s Central Labor Councils convert to chapters of state AFL-CIO

The restructuring comes with new staff support for local labor activity.
Building our communities

Union movement helps workers become citizens

The national AFL-CIO is funding citizenship clinics in Oregon.
Collective bargaining

At Siemens, solidarity got the goods

A group of NW medical imaging techs got a first union contract with big gains.
Trade

Hard feelings linger after Fast Track vote

Labor is in no mood to pal around with Democrats who voted for it.
Oregon

A landmark session, but Oregon labor wanted more

A big Democratic majority led to high expectations, but Oregon lawmakers balked at minimum wage and other labor priorities
Building our communities

‘Unite for the Knight’ helps raise $508 million

Labor and management coalition part of OHSU effort to raise $1 billion for cancer research
In Memoriam

Ed Whelan, 1926-2015

The former Oregon AFL president was a Korean War vet, fire fighter, legislator, and PGE executive.
Oregon

Oregon labor’s legislative agenda still in the air

With six weeks left in 2015 session, Oregon Legislature enters the season of deal-cutting.
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