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SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union Brand New Site!!! This is the statewide local to which I belong. Many of us are in negotiations right now, so please click here often to find out the latest on our contract struggles. |
| SEIU/OPEU Local 085 - University of Oregon This is the University of Oregon's local for the nearly 1300 classified workers, of which I am a member. Our ranks include (but are not limited to:) clerical, housekeepers, custodial, facility service workers, food service workers, IT techs, public safety officers, lab technicians and preparators. We have quite a battle on our hands! |
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Oregon State Legislature This is where our money comes from as public employees. How we're funded depends on the outcome of the Legislature, so visit this site often. |
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OUS - Oregon University System These are the folks we have to bargain with. |
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Unions-America.com - America's Union Internet Service Provider This site provides internet service to unions and their members, but is also good information about unions in this country. |
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Resources for Labor Union Organizing "This web site is designed to provide resources to help Service Industry Workers in their efforts at organizing themselves and their co-workers into labor unions. Janitors, Certified Nurses'Assistants (CNA), Resident Care Aids, and other Service Industry employees are struggling with economic and staffing issues. Only through joining and working together can there be any guarantee for dignity and respect in the workplace. We deserve it and our families' futures deserve it..." |
| Union Jobs Clearinghouse Find out what type of union jobs are available around the country. |
| Lane County Central Labor Council Representing AFL-CIO affiliated unions in Lane County, Oregon |
| AFL-CIO Homepage Welcoming you to today's unions. |
| IWW - Industrial Workers of the World - The Wobblies The IWW is a union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and in our communities both to win better conditions today and to build a world without bosses, a world in which production and distribution are organized by workers ourselves to meet the needs of the entire population, not merely a handful of exploiters. |
| Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation "The Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) is a labor union representing over 1200 Graduate Teaching Fellows and Research Assistants at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Our goals are (1) to improve the quality of life for GTFs in the areas of salary, workload and working conditions through collective bargaining and the enforcement of our contract, (2) to fight for an adequately funded educational system, accessible for all Americans, and (3) to help create a revitalized, socially aware union movement, which is a positive force for change for the entire community. Volunteers and activists are welcome!" |
| Dilbert A fun site for those that love the ongoing harrassment of the lowly worker, Dilbert! |
| Working Families.com The AFL-CIO Internet Community - shop the worker-friendly marketplace, learn about campaigns for worker justice, learn about healthcare issues, your rights at work, and much more. |
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Executive Pay Watch! This is one of my favorite features on the workingfamilies.com site. You can look at the the phenomenal incomes Presidents and CEO of our nation's biggest companies make and compare it to your own salary. Don't be surprised if you don't measure up (most of us don't)! |
| Union Songs Got a song in your head that you heard at the last labor picnic? "For two centuries people across the world have built unions. This site documents the songs and poems that they made in the process, union songs. It also includes songs and poems that are being written today, as the process of union building continues." |
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Union Resource Network Packed with information on what's going on around the country relating to unions and their struggles. |
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Service Employees International Union Website for the AFL-CIO's largest union - representing 1.4 million members, united to improve the lives of working families. |
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CGIU - Graphic Communications International Union "For more than a century, the GCIU's mission has been to serve and protect the rights, living standards and working conditions of its members. GCIU families take pride in their union's pioneering achievements in wages, benefits, and training and in their role in producing top quality newspapers, magazines, commercial printing, packaging, and specialty and other products." (Representing workers on the University of Oregon campus) |
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No Sweat Zone - University of Oregon "The collegiate licensed apparel industry is a $2.5 billion industry. Like much of the apparel industry worldwide, we know that most of the garments sold at Universities are produced in inhumane sweatshops. We as consumers at the University of Oregon -- workers, students and faculty -- want the option to discern between apparel made under humane working conditions and apparel most likely made under morally reprehensible sweatshop conditions. The union label is the best way to decidedly determine the difference between the two. With the support of faculty, students, graduate teaching fellows, and University employees, we believe that a zone in the university bookstore explicitly designated for union manufactured merchandise, a No Sweat Zone, will enable consumers to be informed about the merchandise they are buying. We believe that this is an important consumer right and will benefit workers, consumers and retailers alike." This is such a fabulous project!!! |
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George Meany Center for Labor Studies "As Labor's Own Educational Institute, George Meany Center for Labor Studies is preparing today's Unionists for tomorrow's challenges." |
Because the struggles of the worker is an ongoing issue, please check this site or any of the sites listed here often. Our fight continues...
"The Labor of a Human Being is Not a Commodity..." - Samuel Gompers
"The Labor of a Human Being is Not a Commodity..." - Samuel Gompers