Workers at Grand Central Baking ratify their first union contract Mar 3, 2021 In its first contract with Bakers Local 114, the wholesale bakery will pay overtime after 8.5 hours and raise wages 8% over three years.
THE YEAR OF COVID Mar 3, 2021 March 11 will mark a year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. The pandemic hit the local union movement highly unevenly.
A message from the president Mar 3, 2021 With Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama voting on a union this month, Joe Biden speaks out: Unions built the middle class, not Wall Street.
Springfield nursing home strike ends with mass resignation Mar 3, 2021 After 23 residents died in nine weeks, workers struck for two weeks to demand union recognition. The nursing home’s investor owners refused.
Bill Belanger, 1942-2021 Mar 3, 2021 A former apprenticeship coordinator, president, and business agent of Bricklayers Local 1, he remained active in the union to the end.
Burton David White, 1930-2021 Mar 3, 2021 After a decade and a half at Oregon and California nurses unions, he spent most of his career mediating and arbitrating labor disagreements.
Bill Miller, Jr., 1948-2021 Mar 3, 2021 Miller was business manager of Portland-based IBEW Local 125 when the Enron scandal robbed PGE lineman of retirement savings.
Right to work bill gets pummeled in Montana Legislature Mar 3, 2021 For Montana’s labor movement, it was a fight for life: Union foes thought they’d pass “right to work” given a 2-1 Republican House majority.
Biden calls union leaders to the White House Feb 22, 2021 Continuing a string of overtures to the labor movement, Biden announced a pro-union NLRB nominee and reversed Trump moves on apprenticeship.
Strikes disappear again in 2020 Feb 19, 2021 It looks like the 2018-2019 strike surge was a blip, not the start of a new trend. Last year there were just 8 strikes of over 1,000 workers.
