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'OPB Politics Now': The Fight Over Oregon’s Unions

By Jeff Mapes (OPB), Dirk VanderHart (OPB) and Lauren Dake (OPB)
July 27, 2018 6 p.m.
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It’s a new world for the powerful public employee unions in Oregon now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled states can’t require public employees to pay dues to unions that represent them in the workplace.

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This week on "OPB's Politics Now," OPB political reporter Jeff Mapes, Lauren Dake and Dirk VanderHart discuss how the fight over the future of Oregon unions has already begun.

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