Labor News Archives
Hispanic groups hold Portland protest
Katu.com - Portland,OR,USA
... The protest in Portland today was led by Hispanic organizations, labor unions and church groups who are pushing for an amnesty on illegal immigration. ...


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   We will talk about preservation of labor arts and equity for part-time employees!
    Call in and join the conversation!  Studio Line (503) 231-8187  90.7fm Portland

National Election Reform Conference in Portland this September ...
For further information: http://www.oregonvrc.org 

Dissident unions get organized
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Labor unions that split with the AFL-CIO earlier this year will meet in St. Louis this week, and leaders say they'll lay the groundwork ...
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AFL- CIO Splits at 50th Anniversary Convention!  See below!
 Some responses:  http://www.angelfire.com/blues/writing/laborsplit.html

Labor unions' future poised at crossroads
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... But as long as labor's public policy goals are the same, unions in Iowa
will find a way to work together,  Messer said. "We all have a common cause. ...

US labor Unions: long history
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
... Today, in Boston and across the state, Massachusetts unions will mark Labor Day

Labor unions adjusting to new realities in New Jersey
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... Since then, unions have picked and backed candidates from within the labor movement,
a strategy that has produced 360 union-member elected officials at all ...

Labor unions still step lively despite dispute
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
... This is what democracy is all about. Labor unions are the only democratic institutions
in the entire nation run solely by and for working people. ...

News from OCPPOregon Center for Public Policy  2005

Oregon’s Poor Families Lose $861 Million to Welfare Reform, September 12, 2005

Oregon Agriculture Harvests Bumper Income, September 7, 2005

Labor Day Report: Most Workers Left Out of Economic Recovery, September 2, 2005

STATEMENT BY CHARLES SHEKETOFF,
 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY,
ON THE $101 MILLION – 36% – CORPORATE TAX CUT, September 1, 2005

Nearly a Third of Oregon Working Families With Children
 Can’t Afford Basic Household Budget Needs, September 1, 2005


International Union News
 

Japanese labor unions ask Canada to stop exporting asbestos
Japan Today - Tokyo,Japan
TOKYO -- Three Japanese labor unions including one comprising construction workers requested in a joint action on Friday that Canada, the biggest single ...

Integrating Unions
Korea Times - South Korea
The heads of the nation's two umbrella labor unions have recently agreed on the need to integrate their organizations. It will take ...
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When the American Dream Becomes a Nightmare
Why workers' rights are crucial to the strength of American society

 Issues aired at labor brunch
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA   SEIU & Teamsters, Inland Empire union leaders ...
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 The new face of organized labor
Washington Examiner - Washington,DC,USA
... Evans never shies away from an issue SEIU is interested in,
 voting the union's "preferred position" on those issues 100 percent of the time. ...
Thanking Labor  Greg LeRoy

Labor's strong support for corporate accountability on jobs
 and taxes benefits all taxpayers, union members or not.
Tuesday 8:53 AM

With all the troubles workers face, Professor Shaiken of Berkeley sees
hope for unions.  "When you read the polls about worker anxiety," he said,
"and you put that together with rising gasoline prices and declining wages
and all the other things that are out there,
if we didn't have unions, we'd have to invent them this Labor Day."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/05labor.html?th&emc=th

Unions look to increase their membership
Chicago Sun-Times, United States - 12 hours ago
... experts expect a revving up of union organizing activity
in the months ahead ...
LABOR DAY: Divided unions united for holiday LaCrosse Tribune
Scott Molloy: United unions can trump reactionaries Providence Journal (subscription)
Labor rift a big test for unions in Mass. Boston Globe
Washington Post - Boston Globe - all 198 related »

●  AFL-CIO Splits: SEIU and Teamsters Disaffiliate
 ●  AFL-CIO CONVENTION CALLS FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
 ●  AFL-CIO Convention Delegates Take Action on Labor Reforms   
 ●  Anti-Sweatshop Government Procurement Legislation  San Francisco –
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously today to pass the historic
Sweatfree San Francisco Ordinance, which will ensure that the hundreds of millions of
city tax dollars spent on purchasing annually will be used to support fair and just labor practices.   www.globalexchange.org/sweatfreebayarea.

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