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Yearly Archives: 2013

Politics

Back for August recess, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden hears from labor

Oregon's senior senator has a pro-labor voting record, but favors NAFTA-style trade deals
Workers Rights

PIRG fundraising group on trial for labor violations

Fund for the Public Interest managers tell a judge that firing David Neal was business as usual.
Collective bargaining

Labor Day picnic blood drive called off due to labor dispute

American Red Cross is pushing to lower wages for members of Oregon Nurses Association
Labor History

1963 March on Washington — time to march again

Conventional narratives of the March downplay its economic demands — and labor’s central role
Jobs

Coalition calls for scaled-down phased-in I-5 bridge over the Columbia

Three pages worth of names sign a letter calling for "phased option"
Comment

The union movement’s survival requires it to change

The history of the labor movement is full of the corpses of failed organizations.
Clark County

Labor-backed candidates in Vancouver advance to general election

The Central Labor Council backed five for Vancouver City Council and mayor
Portland

Labor wary about public water district

Initiative would take control of water and sewer away from the City of Portland
Analysis

Union workers more likely to get benefits of every kind

Retirement is a union thing, judging by a July 17 BLS report
Jobs

Planned occupation of NW Portland’s main post office thwarted

Department of Homeland Security police stood in a post office entrance.
In Memoriam

Tom Gates, 1943-2013

The letter carriers union leader joined USPS in 1978.
Collective bargaining

City of Portland contract talks enter mediation

Preventing a deal is a City proposal that paves the way to contracting out
Clackamas County

UFCW’s Gillispie tapped to chair school board

The longtime labor leader was elected chair of North Clackamas School District
Collective bargaining

Bradken foundry: No contract, a year after union vote

Workers are seeking a fair and transparent pay scale
People

David Cecil named chief of staff at AFT-Oregon

The former graduate teaching fellow has 13 years in the labor movement
Collective bargaining

Oregon unions sign tentative pacts for 22,000 state workers

SEIU and AFSCME members will get modest cost-of-living raises
Washington

2013: Not a good year for labor in Olympia

After two Democrats defected, Washingtonians got a bitterly partisan Legislature
Washington

Washington AFL-CIO convention: ‘Labor can’t do it alone’

Resolution calls for continued fight for new I-5 bridge with light rail
Collective bargaining

ERB: Arbitrator’s ruling stands, but TriMet broke law

The transit agency is ordered to pay $136,000 and stop trying to collect back-premiums
Collective bargaining

Strike ends at Daimler’s Western Star truck plant

After 22 days, Machinists and Painters vote to accept company offer
Building our communities

Labor history comes alive at Clark County Historical Museum exhibit

The exhibit launched July 11 with major help from more than two dozen local unions.
Union democracy

United Food and Commercial Workers expected to rejoin AFL-CIO in August

UFCW's return would boost AFL-CIO membership by almost 10 percent.
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