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American labor movement looks to Oregon women for new leader, solidarity
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
Posted Jan 30, 2021
Liz Shuler, left, and Sara Nelson grew up in Oregon 87 miles apart. Now they are two of the most powerful people in all of American labor.
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After a historically chaotic presidential election, another important national political race is shaping up – this one with extraordinary Oregon connections.
The AFL-CIO, the nation’s most powerful labor group, will likely elect a new president at its next convention. For the first time, two leading candidates are women. And both are from Oregon.
Liz Shuler, who grew up in Milwaukie, is the current second-in-command at the AFL-CIO. She has ascended with lightning speed to the highest levels of American labor, motivated in part by a corrupt corporation that exacted a painful toll on her family.
Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, January 2021
At the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program, and for our many colleagues and partners, the ongoing and intertwined health, economic, and racial justice crises bring new urgency to our work to improve access to quality jobs, options to participate in business ownership, and the freedom to pursue economic opportunity. Below we share our monthly newsletter with highlights of recent work. As always, we welcome your feedback, thoughts, and partnership in advancing inclusive opportunity and an economy in which we all can thrive. Click here to subscribe.
Joining Forces on the Future of Work
We are pleased to announce that the Institute’s Future of Work Initiative (FOWI) has merged with EOP. FOWI was established in late 2015 to develop bipartisan policy recommendations to address the challenges American workers face in a changing economy. FOWI’s emphasis on policy development complements EOP’s decades of research on o