This week Robert Reich, secretary of labor in the Clinton administration and professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, leads a discussion on what we can do to close the inequality gap as the AFL-CIO continues its crucial conversation about the future of working people and of unions at www.aflcio2013.org.

 

The 53rd Oregon AFL-CIO Convention is coming up! Find out everything you need to know here.
 

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This week's update includes:

• Portland Pride Parade
• A Voice for All Workers
• Fix My Job
• Union Made Gifts for Dad
   

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By working together, we have achieved something phenomenal.

Click here to read the National AFL-CIO's coverage of the Oregon Organizing Project.
 

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This week's update includes:

• Take Action to keep the NLRB working
• Precision Castparts: Workers Vote June 6 - 7th
• Oregon AFL-CIO Summer School
• Union Members Speak Up about Infrastructure Improvement
   

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The AFT and First Book—a nonprofit that has distributed more than 90 million new books to children across the United States—have joined forces with New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to help encourage a culture of reading for low-income and middle-class students.

This video features AFT’s team-up with First Book to place books in the homes of the children of Freeport, N.Y., a community devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

 

Amidst the May 21st election results there is an important story that must be told. It's the story of working people running for office and being elected to lead their communities. Up and down the state, union members who work in the public and the private sector, who are currently working and those who are retired, who have served before and those who are stepping up for the first time, won their elections.
 

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Click here to watch a video of the 2013 Workers Memorial Day Observation.
 

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Union members across Oregon are trying something new - and it's working. Oregon has seen union membership increase most of the last five years, even as states across the country see more and more unorganized workers struggling to make ends meet. But union members in Oregon decided they needed to do more to help workers who were interested in forming a union on the job.

Read the National AFL-CIO's blog post about this exciting press conference.





 

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