University of Oregon is proposing a devastating 45 percent budget cut to the only program on campus that’s focused on organized labor. Labor Education and Research Center (LERC), which celebrated its 40th anniversary a year and a half ago, learned on April 8 of plans to cut its annual budget by $488,000.
America's Infrastructure Crisis Creates Opportunity for Gas-workers
Aging gas lines need to be fixed to prevent catastrophe
Beneath nearly every American city, a crisis is unfolding. While talk of America's crumbling infrastructure focuses on bridges and roads, ports and airports, below ground the aging pipe networks that carry natural gas to homes and businesses grow more dangerous by the day.