Health Care

As Obamacare insurance exchanges near launch, labor braces for impact

Labor-affiliated health trusts are locked out of Obamacare’s benefits, and forced to pay its costs…

Union Organizing

Precision Castparts workers vote to stay non-union

The vote on whether to join Machinists is 932-1,258…

Trade

Secret Pacific Rim trade deal on track to completion

Obama's NAFTA-style treaty with 11 Pacific Rim nations is slated for signing in October…

Politics

Unions call on State of Oregon to sue LIBOR banks, but no action yet

SEIU says the bank scandal cost public pension and other State of Oregon funds $110 million…

Community

Motorcycle ride raises cash for kids

Unions for Kids motorcycle poker run nets a record $64,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital…

NALC’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive sees sharp increase

This year, union letter carriers collected 37,000 tons of food nationwide, and 526 tons in Oregon…

Comment

Without filibuster reform, worker rights will wither

Employers are increasingly lawless as the NLRB sits vacant…

Jobs

Protesters disrupt airport mail facility in Portland

Morning mail runs were blocked in a protest against privatization…