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Oregon Unions Work Together to Help Head Start Workers Win a Voice on the Job

Apr 30, 2013 Mike Hall | Organizing/Bargaining

Mount Hood Community College Head Start workers and supporters. Oregon AFL-CIO photo.

The joint effort known as the “Oregon Organizing Project” has helped more than 3,000 Oregon workers win a voice on the job in the past several months. In the most recent campaign, several Oregon unions pitched in and worked together to help more than 300 Head Start workers at Mount Hood Community College who wanted to form a union to address serious workplace concerns.

Republican Budget Proposal Attacks Middle Class, Destroys Jobs

Feb 16, 2011 Tula Connell | Political Action/Legislation

How bad is the Republican federal budget proposal? AFL-CIO Legislative Director Bill Samuel describes it as an “all-out assault against middle-class Americans.”