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As a member of Local 9 (Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union) here in Portland, I cannot stress enough the importance of unions in today's society.

With so many of Americans jobs being outsourced today we need to protect the jobs that we have and rebuild the shrinking middle class.

As a service industry employee I realize that my job cannot be sent over seas and it's time to make our service jobs livable careers, with benefits.

The middle class was created by Union members demanding fair wages and treatment!

posted 4 years, 9 months ago
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