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Boeing workers had a pension before 2016. They want it back.

Kroger and Albertsons are the big fish that swallowed up almost all other grocery competitors. Now Kroger proposes to swallow Albertsons.

The union is now calling on customers to take part in a general boycott of Fred Meyer.

As bargaining drags into its 20th month, the union has no choice but to escalate.

Gunderson workers were represented by Boilermakers and other unions until the 1980s. Today, wages and benefits lag behind the union standard.

The agreement raises compensation $16 over four years for more than 5,000 members of Ironworkers locals in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

They join a union that also represents workers at homeless service providers Central City Concern, Transition Projects, and Home Forward.

The Sept. 12 union vote doubles the number of workers represented by AFSCME Local 88 at the homeless service nonprofit.

The union's political director says her record of unpaid parking tickets and other infractions was ‘beyond the pale.’

It began in 1899, when 44 painters and wallpaper hangers met at the Portland hall of a fraternal order called the Improved Order of Red Men.

The local is spending $8.6 million to purchase and remodel the 3-acre property. Nearly 1,000 of Local 290’s 5,100 members live in Washington.

And respondents who say they disapprove of unions is down to 23%, the lowest since 1967.

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