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Oregon unemployment department still facing backlog of claims and jammed phone lines

Call the Oregon Employment Department and you may have to wait hours to talk to a human being if you do at all. Auto dialers are not helping the situation, according to OED Acting Director David Gerstenfeld.

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Call the Oregon Employment Department and you may have to wait hours to talk to a human being if you do at all. Auto dialers are not helping the situation, according to OED Acting Director David Gerstenfeld.

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