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OCTOBER 20th, 2011 | Stand with Ohio, and stand up for our brothers and sisters across the country and help us wipe SB 5 off of Ohio’s map. Read More...
OCTOBER 12th, 2011 | The Oregon AFL-CIO along with local labor leaders, workers and elected officials held two events this week to call for a renewed commitment to infrastructure investment in our state. Read More...
OCTOBER 6th, 2011 | Occupy Wall Street, and now Occupy Together, are fighting back against the corporate agenda that drove our country to recession set up its own recovery and, frankly, left everyone else by the wayside - students, minorities, the poor, union members, and the remnants of the middle class. Read More...
SEPTEMBER 15th, 2011 | Renewing the Gas Tax renews our commitment to making our communities strong – but it may become Congress’s next political pawn. By putting people back to work through repairing existing infrastructure and building new projects we can stay competitive and keep moving forward. Read More...
SEPTEMBER 8th, 2011 | Is the Postal Service going Bankrupt? The short answer is no. Sure, the Postal Service is in trouble, but Washington DC politics are to blame – not mismanagement, or the internet and email. Read More...
SEPTEMBER 1st, 2011 | This Labor Day, we call on our elected leaders to stand up for Oregonians and work with us to reinvest in our communities. Put Oregon’s hard workers back on the job and stop the political assault on working people - by renewing the federal gas tax, prioritizing jobs, and strengthening our economy. Read More...
AUGUST 24th, 2011 | The fires of the debt limit debate are still smoldering as Congress prepares for another massive showdown. This time, transportation funding is the issue and hopefully Congress will not balance the deal on the backs of workers, jobs and our economic future by shortchanging infrastructure improvement. Read More...
AUGUST 17th, 2011 | The Joint Select Committee that will be deciding how to make more cuts in federal spending, or the Super Committee, as some are calling it, must put jobs first. Read More...
JULY 27th, 2011 | Have politicians in Washington DC lost sight of the big picture as the debt ceiling debate heats up? It would appear so, as politics took priority over jobs last weekend. Read More...
JULY 21st, 2011 | Our nation’s union movement has been fighting back, and we’re happy to announce a few victories in the campaign to protect workers’ rights! Read More...
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Playing Chicken with Our Economic Recovery
DECEMBER 20th, 2011 | Congress stands at the crossroads of yet another Federal shutdown, the third this year. If we were waiting for a clear indication that we need to more Representatives in Washington who will put working families and the middle class first, this is it. Partisan bickering keeps the real leaders on both sides of the aisle, who are ready to fight for the 99% of us who work for a living, doing their jobs.
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Breaking Down Wealth Inequality
NOVEMBER 30th, 2011 | Occupy Wall Street has rippled across the country leaving a wake of activism and protest in nearly every state and wide-scale demonstrations teeming in over 20 major North American cities. The message is clear: we are the 99%. We work the jobs, we pay the bills and we’re tired of the 1% keeping all of the profits.
