Job News
AUGUST 31st, 2011 | Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain recently announced that he would not be running for office as Portland’s mayor. While President Chamberlain has stepped out of the race, his editorial in the Oregonian sets the stage for the candidates to tell us how they’re going to help bring much needed jobs to Portland. Read More...
MAY 19th, 2011 | Right-wing politicians and pundits are in an uproar over the National Labor Relations Board’s April 20 complaint defending workers' right to strike at Boeing. Read More...
MAY 17th, 2011 | Governor John Kitzhaber along with Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain announced today that our state’s unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since December 2008, at 9.6%. Read More...
APRIL 13th, 2011 | If you care about the middle class, you need to care about unions. Read More...
JANUARY 18th, 2011 | Listen to how we discuss clean energy in this country, and you'll note that the conversation is exactly upside down. To hear the mainstream discourse tell it, clean energy may be a nice idea but it's prohibitively expensive. Read More...
JANUARY 6th, 2011 | Conservatives are starting to implement their onslaught to repeal the Affordable Care Act this week as Republicans take control of the House of Representatives. Read More...
DECEMBER 16th, 2010 | Trade is a hot topic right now: The Korea Free Trade Agreement is nearing a vote and a recent study by Oregon business groups suggests trade could be the key to raising wages and turning around our economy.
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NOVEMBER 22nd, 2010 | Many businesses, and not just retailers, hire extra help for the holidays. With 9.9% of Oregonians still seeking work and five jobless workers per job opening nationwide, a creative approach to seasonal employment could make the difference between a paycheck and another week of unemployment benefits. Read More...
OCTOBER 28th, 2011 | Oregon leads the nation in clean-energy jobs, with Portland showing up on many lists as the number one city for sustainability and environmental-consciousness. Read More...
OCTOBER 28th, 2010 | Intel is already one of the largest manufacturing employers, and as we see more and more manufacturing jobs move overseas this is a big win for Oregon. 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.
