December 2011 - nwLaborPress

Workers at Fund for the Public Interest’s Portland call center voted in October to unionize.

A government agency emails the public to say its employee compensation is out-of-line.

Union electricians install half a million lights, and fiberoptic and animated displays, each year.

By Tom Chamberlain, Oregon AFL-CIO President

Dosha Salon Spa was elected “Scrooge of the Year” at a Dec. 10 fundraiser

The amendment would overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizen United ruling.

Leafleters took the message to Portland mall shoppers.

Officers will be sworn in at the Jan. 23 delegates meeting.

The annual event is now in its 71st year.

Now workers must get a contract at a non-profit that spent $65,000+ to bust the union.