July 16, 2007

Dear United Farm Workers of Oregon,

The officers, staff and members of the Oregon AFL-CIO offer our hearty congratulations to you for reaching your first union contract. We know how hard you have worked to reach this milestone. We salute your courage, your persistence, and your creativity on winning this historic agreement. By joining with your fellow workers to win better pay and benefits, you are doing your part to make jobs better for all Oregon workers. For that, we also say thank you.

We are proud to have you as some of the newest members of the Oregon AFL-CIO. Our coalition of labor unions includes 145,000 working men and women in Oregon. Your union brothers and sisters are steelworkers, teachers, nurses, machinists, and much more. Together we work to make sure that working people are respected on the State Legislature and in Congress. We look forward to your ideas and energy as active members of the coalition.

Sobre todo, nos gustaría agradercerles muy sinceramente, por todo lo que han hecho para mejorar la vida de los obreros de Oregon. Uds. han trabajado muy duro para realizar este contracto. Ganar y proteger los derechos humanos puede ser muy difícil, pero Uds. han muestro que cuando trabajamos juntos, todo es possible. Les deseamos muchísima suerte y mucho éxito también. Uds. nos inspiran a todos nosotros.

Sincerely/sinceramente,

Tom Chamberlain
President

Barbara Byrd, PhD
Secretary-Treasurer