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 This week's update includes: - The Fiscal Cliff - Help your friends and family join a union - Oregon Labor Candidate School - Update from the Port
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 Support Dosha Workers! Click here to read the rest of the update.  Volunteers Needed for the last push of the CD1 Special Election: This election is going to be very close - can you bring in the winning votes? We have six days left to get out the vote and elect Suzanne Bonamici for Congress. Click here to read the rest of the update.  Save America’s Postal Service! Stand up for Saturday delivery, door-to-door delivery and community post offices. Click here to read the rest of the update.  Immigrant’s Rights are Worker’s Rights: Commemorate International Migrants’ Day and call for a more fair system for workers, on Saturday, December 17th. A rally will begin in the South Park Blocks – between SW Salmon and SW Main streets at 10:00am followed by a march at 11:00am.
 Next week, the Oregon AFL-CIO along with Oregon AFSCME, Occupy Portland, CAUSA, and Portland Jobs with Justice will remind downtown Portland about the true spirit of the holidays: Human needs.
 From workers’ rights in Ohio to immigrant rights in Arizona to bond money to build a new police station in West Linn, the 2011 election was a success for working families. Click here to read the rest of the update.
 Banks are taking our money and gambling on the same toxic practices that drove our country into recession. It’s time to stand up, and move our money away from greedy banks and into smaller credit unions and local banks who will actually invest in our communities. If we stand together and take collective action, we can send Wall Street a message. Click here to read the rest of the update.
 If it feels like we’re getting attacked from all sides, you’re not alone. But with each new attack comes a renewed opportunity to stand up, speak out and fight back. And there is a lot going on. This week, we’re filling the Update with the info you need to get mobilized and keep Oregon’s union movement in the fight. Check out the events and actions below and keep an eye on our Facebook page and website for updates and further calls to action! Click here to read the rest of the update.
Weekly Update: Let's Invest in Work
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. Click here to read the rest of this week's update.
Weekly Update: Building Power from Wall Street, to Minneapolis, to Oregon
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.
Weekly Update: Get Our Economy Back on the Road.
The Federal Gas Tax will stop being collected if Congress does not take action to renew it before September 30th. There are discussions about short term solutions, but a long term fix is needed. Click here to read the rest of this week's update.
Weekly Update: Can You Save Your Local Post Office?
Are you in Representative Greg Walden’s district? Know someone who is? Help save your Post Office! Click here to read the rest of this week's update.
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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.
In Portland? Dosha Salon Workers are newly-organized and fighting for their first contract. Show your support for their work.
Union members, activists and an army of volunteers showed the country what democracy looks like yesterday in Wisconsin. Two Republican state senators who backed Governor Scott Walker’s attack on public employees, Randy Hopper and Dan Kapanke, were successfully recalled from office. This narrows the Republican majority in the Wisconsin State Senate to one vote.
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!
700 union members - care workers, case managers and others in the direct care industry - gathered in Washington D.C. yesterday to kick-off the Caring Across Generations campaign.
Past trade deals like NAFTA have left working people in the dust and the proposed deals are not an improvement. Stand up for American workers and tell congress to stop these trade deals and find a better solution to resolve our economic crisis: Click here to send Congress a message.
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National AFL-CIO President Trumka calls for less talk and more action to reform immigration.
Oregon’s union movement is strongest when we’re all on the same page. We’ve got a new online tool where you can sign up for text message updates (and of course the Weekly Update.) Already signed up? Forward this link to your fellow unionists and encourage them to stay in the loop! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Respect the Union Waterfront! Join ILWU Local 21 and their supporters from across Oregon, Washington and California as we deliver the “Respect the Union Waterfront” message to EGT Development at a rally outside EGT's corporate office in downtown Portland. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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On Saturday, May 14th, the National Association of Letter Carriers will join forces with the Oregon Food Bank for the annual "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive across America in order to provide assistance to the increasing number of Americans who are struggling with hunger. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Every year we take April 28th to commemorate the lives of workers who were killed on the job. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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The 154 employees of Dosha Salon’s five locations are now proud members of CWA Local 7901. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please RSVP to upcoming rallies and help spread the word!
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Unemployed? Underemployed? Know someone who is (don’t we all)? Click here to read the rest of the update.
Governor Scott Walker and his Republican, corporate beholden cronies have stripped collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin’s state workers, dealing a devastating blow to workers everywhere and motivating a series of calls to continued action. One Republican senator has voted against the bill, proving that workers’ rights are a nonpartisan issue. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Our pilot program, Oregon Wants to Work had a successful first meeting on Wednesday. We had 70 unemployed and underemployed workers show up to the PCC Workforce Center in Northeast Portland.
Elected leaders who genuinely understand the issues important to our union movement aren’t as common as they should be. Candidates receive labor endorsements based on a variety of factors, including taking the time to sit down with union members to better understand what working people in our state need, but how many of our elected leaders have actually been dues paying union members, and know what we face day in and day out?
The annual legislative session has begun. With the passage of last year’s Measure 71, this session will be limited to 160 days and there is a lot to do in that time. We want to make sure that you’re informed about our top priority goals during session and the ways that we’re fighting for the future of Oregon’s middle class and hard working families. Click here to read more. It’s easy to turn on someone who makes higher wages and say they’re hurting the economy. But too often Americans look only a few steps up – at someone who they think makes a little more, but isn’t actually any better off. Also in the update this week: Pride at Work meeting, President Trumka's response to State of the Union and more resources for the unemployed. For years our unions have reached out to non-union workers through partnerships with community groups, community affiliates like Jobs with Justice and more recently Working America, and joint projects with advocates for the industries we work in. But none of those programs have fully included an important group of Oregonians: workers who aren't working; the unemployed. Also in the update this week: Single Payer Health Care Conference, President Trumka's speech and the State of the Union address. Click here to read more. Earlier this week Metro Councilor Robert Liberty announced that he would be leaving Metro for a position at the University of Oregon. The position will be filled in the next few weeks by an appointment made by the remaining Metro Councilors. Are you a fan of jobs? Are you a fan of expanding Portland’s port space to keep up with our growing economy? Learn more about the opportunity to bring new jobs to West Hayden Island in this article, and become a fan online, ATU members who work at Tri-Met have been without a contract for a while now. They’re supposed to enter binding arbitration with Tri-Met, but that looks like it won’t happen until some time next year. Click here to read more. It’s easy to sit back and thank your union for what you have, but we often forget that one of the reasons unions first negotiated for the weekend was so that middle class workers would have the same opportunities to get involved in their communities that the wealthy had. Now’s your chance to exercise that privilege. Click here to read more. Buying union and American-made is always the best option. There are more options than you’d guess, even with so many companies moving overseas. When that’s just not an option, though, look for unionized stores, or stores that have good employment practices. As our Congressmen consider a few bills while they’re back in Washington, D.C. between the elections and their Thanksgiving break, many Americans are wondering exactly how much they’ll have to be thankful for by the end of this month. |
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