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Feb 25, 20202 min read
Trump's NLRB Attacks Oregon Worker Protection Law
Since taking office, President Trump has stacked the National Labor Relations Board with anti-worker members who have put unions and the...
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Feb 20, 20201 min read
Stand with OSU Faculty and Graduate Employees
Negotiations for two unions at Oregon State University are underway, but for both the United Academics of Oregon State University and the...
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Feb 5, 20201 min read
Tell TriMet: Don’t Take Away Apprenticeships
On January 22nd, members, leaders, and supporters of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 packed TriMet’s board meeting in downtown...
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Jan 29, 20202 min read
Winning at Cascadia
Over the last few weeks, 209 front-line behavioral health professionals with Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare’s Respite and Residential...
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Jan 29, 20202 min read
It Starts on the Shop Floor
On the first episode of The Voice of Oregon’s Workers of 2020, we sat down with A.J. Mendoza, President of Communications Workers of...
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Jan 22, 20202 min read
Oregon Womxn Labor Leaders
Did you know that 52% of workers covered by union contracts in Oregon are womxn and womxn comprise majorities in many unions? Despite...
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Jan 21, 20202 min read
Oregon’s Unions Grew in 2019, But Barriers Continue to Prevent Workers from Organizing
Oregon Labor, Workforce & Economy The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its annual report on union membership today, and the...
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Jan 7, 20202 min read
Remembering Robert Blanche
Oregon Labor Oregon’s Union Movement is saddened by the loss of former Portland SAG-AFTRA President Robert Blanche, who passed away on...
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Dec 18, 20191 min read
New Podcast Episode: Building Power Through Apprenticeships
Workforce & Economy, Podcast With 45 million Americans owing a total of $1.5 trillion dollars in student debt, many people are turning to...
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Dec 17, 20193 min read
A year of impactful change
Oregon Labor Written by Oregon AFL-CIO President Graham Trainor for the Northwest Labor Press As I look back at 2019, I find myself...
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Dec 10, 20192 min read
Path to Power
Political Action One of the many exciting outcomes from the Oregon AFL-CIO’s 2019 Convention is the in-state launch of the National...
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Nov 24, 20191 min read
New Podcast Episode: Fighting for Immigrants’ Rights
Equal Rights, Workforce & Economy On this month’s episode of The Voice of Oregon’s Workers, our monthly podcast, we talk with Denise Piza...
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Nov 19, 20192 min read
Not the TriMet We Signed Up For
Collective Bargaining This article is shared from the Pamplin Media Group What happens when TriMet, an irreplaceable part of the...
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Nov 14, 20193 min read
Graduate Employees are Workers Too
Oregon Labor, Organizing, Collective Bargaining By Oregon AFL-CIO president Graham Trainor for the Northwest Labor Press A job is so much...
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Nov 7, 20192 min read
New Podcast Episode: Graduate Researchers United
Collective Bargaining, Organizing The latest episode of our monthly podcast, The Voice of Oregon’s Workers focuses on Oregon Health &...
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Oct 31, 20191 min read
Pronouns Matter
Equal Rights At the 2019 Oregon AFL-CIO Convention, hundreds of delegates from local unions unanimously passed a resolution that updates...
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Oct 30, 20191 min read
Graduate Employees Win Tentative Agreement at University of Oregon!
Collective Bargaining After 14 hours of intensive mediation, the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, AFT Local 3544, has reached a...
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Oct 30, 20191 min read
Interview with Oregon AFL-CIO President on KMUZ
Oregon Labor Bob Rossi (retired CWA member) interviews Oregon AFL-CIO President Graham Trainor with a discussion of the state of the...
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Oct 21, 20191 min read
2019 Oregon AFL-CIO Convention Wrap Up
The Northwest Labor Press has published a comprehensive overview of the 56th convention of the Oregon AFL-CIO, including the transition...
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Oct 19, 20191 min read
Legislators who sold us out on PERS don’t merit our support
Legislative Advocacy, Political Action Oregon AFSCME Executive Director Stacy Chamberlain has published a blistering guest opinion in The...
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