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America's Infrastructure Crisis Creates Opportunity for Gas-workers

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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.

Statewide teacher strike set for May 8

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The #RedForEd teacher strike wave that began in West Virginia last year is coming to Oregon May 8 in the form of a one-day walkout by teachers around the state to demand better school funding. Over 20,000 teachers are expected to take part in the work stoppages, and they’ll be joined by students, parents, and other supporters in four mass rallies in Portland, Salem, Eugene, and Medford.

University of Oregon: Labor Education and Research Center, 45 percent budget cut

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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.