March 2014 - nwLaborPress

Strike averted at City of Portland

Mar 28, 2014

DCTU signs off on compromise language over contracting out

Oregon retirees group stays busy, involved in community

Mar 18, 2014

Attendees call for expanding Social Security and establishing single payer health care

Dodging a Norquist attack on unions

Mar 18, 2014

Union foes wanted right-to-work in Oregon. They’ll be back.

Erica Askin replaces Richard “Buz” Beetle as Laborers 483 business manager

Mar 18, 2014

Beetle, 65, retires after decades of union activism

Anti- high-capacity transit measure passes in Tigard

Mar 18, 2014

Every year from now on, Tigard must send a letter opposed to any rail or bus project that displaces roads

Mixed bag for labor in Oregon’s short legislative session

Mar 18, 2014

No big gains, but no setbacks either.

Portland State University professors authorize strike

Mar 18, 2014

AAUP says they’re ready to walk out to promote greater stability and defend faculty role in governance

After obstruction and delay, City of Portland ordered to proceed with union election for park rangers

Mar 17, 2014

City obstructed and delayed for a year, but now park rangers get to join DCTU

Oregon AFL-CIO chooses who to back in primary

Mar 12, 2014

Not all who sought endorsement got it.

‘Right-to-work’ initiative dropped

Mar 6, 2014

Sponsors of two anti-union initiative petitions — including a so-called right-to-work measure for public employees — have agreed to withdraw their measures aimed at the Oregon ballot in November. In exchange, a labor-backed coalition that