October 2013 - nwLaborPress

A decades-old exclusion ends for nearly 2 million workers.

The local represents workers at Multnomah County.

Hospitals would have to do charity care, disclose prices and quality, charge fair rates, cap CEO pay

The deal covering 12 Pacific Rim nations was supposed to be signed, sealed and delivered last month

The Nov. 5 ballot measure would lift estimated 6,500 workers in transportation and hospitality

For 30 years, union volunteers handed out food boxes, up to 850 a month

The district wants concessions, and won’t meet directly with the union.

The shutdown was a case of failed political brinksmanship.

City denies vacation requests, and union gets “ready to walk”

Two years after voting to unionize, no contract, but no surrender either.