February 2011 - nwLaborPress

Support and maintenance workers at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend voted 267 to 261 to unionize.

Two labor groups are calling for a boycott of The Columbian, the Vancouver daily newspaper.

OSHA will hold off asking employers to record musculoskeletal disorders like carpal tunnel on a form they already fill out.

Labor scholar Michael Honey has published a collection of King’s speeches about economic justice.

AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust is investing $22 million to construct a building adjacent to Coquille Valley Hospital.

Debbie Hussey, a union steward at Portland’s 911 call center, outpolled fellow state board member Carol Justice.

A new limited edition book tells stories of unionism, strikes, and dangerous working conditions at Crown Zellerbach in West Linn.

Union attorney Susan Stoner has published the second in her series of historical mystery novels.

A member of Bakers Union Local 114 is behind a bill in the Oregon Legislature.

The Oregon Single Payer Conference drew attendees from around the state.