Less than a week after the layoff of over twenty workers and the end of 35 years of CAHOOTS service in Eugene, panelists at a UO town hall said the crisis response team was exploring a separation from White Bird Clinic. Thursday April 10, a town hall hosted by the […]
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CAHOOTS effectively ends service in Eugene
CAHOOTS services in Eugene will operate only six hours every week as the White Bird Board of Directors lay off over 20 crisis response workers this Monday, April 7. In a little under one year since CAHOOTS workers secured their first union contract, employees were notified on March 7 about […]
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Oregon House bill would shed light on university foundations
The Oregon House Committee On Higher Education and Workforce Development will vote on whether or not to move forward a bill that will subject public university foundations to public records laws. House Bill 3213 is now scheduled for a work session on April 8 after the committee heard public testimony […]
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Women, life, freedom: GTFF, other UO community members stand in solidarity with protesters in Iran
On Friday, Oct. 7 at the University of Oregon campus, members of the UO community rallied outside of Johnson Hall in solidarity and remembrance of those killed in ongoing protests in Iran. Since the death of Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16, at the hands of so-called morality police in Iran, […]
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Weyerhaeuser workers across the Northwest strike
Two days into the first mill workers strike in over 30 years, Weyerhaeuser employees affiliated with International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Local 246 maintained a hearty picket line at all four entrances to the Cottage Grove mill in Lane County. All across the Pacific Northwest over 1100 […]
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