Laborers Local 483 PAC

On January 26th Oregonian’s did something extremely progressive and somewhat unusual, we voted to raise taxes. For the first time in almost 80 years initiatives calling for increased taxes passed. Measures 66 and 67 raise the corporate minimum tax from $10 to $150 (which had remained static since 1931 ) and raise the tax rate [...]

With ballots soon to be mailed the pressure is on to get the real information out about measures 66 and 67. The business lobby is spending millions on ads trying to dupe us into believing the only way out of our current economic mess is to protect the status quo and vote no on these [...]

This article published by the Oregon Center for Public Policy illustrates the lengths opponents-read wealthy individuals and corporations-will go to in order to protect their privilege.
Experts Debunk Claim That Tax Measures Would Cost Jobs
Tax Policy Center calls arguments “misleading” and “fatally flawed”
(Silverton) — The central argument by opponents of Measures 66 and 67, that [...]

In our current climate of economic crisis a coalition of Oregonians have come together to propose reform for our ancient and lopsided state tax system. Defend Oregon is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to a fairer tax system in Oregon and protecting essential services: education, public safety, and healthcare. The information below [...]

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor
federation representing 11.5 million workers in 57 international and
national unions, has endorsed a single payer health care system as the
best way to guarantee healthcare to everyone. The unanimous vote in favor
of Convention Resolution 34, The Social Insurance Model for Health Care
Reform, came immediately after President [...]

Brothers and Sisters, finally honest feedback on single payer from the President of the National Union of Public and General Employees. Following is a letter sent to President Obama and all members of the House and Senate dispelling untruth’s about single payer.
Dear Friends,
I am writing to you on behalf of the 340,000 members of the [...]

Thanks California Nurses Association for this call to action. Please tell everyone you know to call now!!
In Solidarity
House Vote on State Option TODAY
for Single-Payer Healthcare
Congress member Dennis Kucinich of Ohio will be introducing an important single-payer amendment today, Thursday – the House healthcare reform bill.
The Kucinich amendment which gives states the right to pass and [...]

From the AFL-CIO update
Forty-seven artists.
Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winners and nominees.
Sitcom stars, character actors, musicians, comedians and Broadway performers.
All union members.
All support the Employee Free Choice Act and say so in this new video.
People associate actors with fame and glory. The truth is for a long time my union contract was the reason [...]

At our last general membership meeting brothers and sisters of local 483 voted to endorse single payer health care in the form of HR 676 “the United States National Health Insurance Act”. This single piece of legislation would do more for working families than the trillions of dollars congress has handed to corporate America. [...]

The desperate economic crisis our country in now facing is not the first and hopefully will not prove the worst yet experienced. History has valuable lessons to offer and if we are to make significant changes for the majority of the population and not just a wealthy elite we must employ the knowledge of the [...]