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For Your Information...January 25, 2019

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Around the State from the Oregon Employment Department

Tentative Agenda for the NOLC Executive Board meeting

Tentative Agenda for the NOLC Delegates meeting

 

From the AFL-CIO on the government shutdown

 This is what we know about the deal:

For Your Information...January 11, 2019

In the attachments;

Around the State from the Oregon Employment Department

Tentative Agenda for the NOLC Executive Board meeting

An Open Letter To Game Developers From America's Largest Labor Organization

If an investor was searching for the country’s most explosively successful commodity, they might look to the ground for natural resources or to Wall Street for some new financial instrument. But, the most meteoric success story can be found virtually all around us—in the booming video game industry. Growing by double digits, U.S. video game sales reached $43 billion in 2018, about 3.6 times greater than the film industry’s record-breaking box office.

Let’s Give Working People the Power to End Government Shutdowns

I understand why it would be insane to spend even a day without controllers, troops, Transportation Security Administration screeners, Coast Guard officers, FBI and Border Patrol agents and a laundry list of other truly essential workers employed by the federal government. What I don’t understand is why we tolerate a system that lets elected officials fail to do their one real job — funding the government — with no consequences for anyone in power.

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***PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE RALLY AT THE PORTLAND AIRPORT THIS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BEING AVERTED.

THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT WAS READY TO STAND UP AND SUPPORT THOSE GOVERNMENT WORKERS BEING AFFECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS.

Northwest Oregon Labor Council holds monthly Council Meetings every fourth Monday at 7:00pm.

These meetings are held at the IBEW Local 48 Union Hall at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland, Oregon 97230.

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