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Monthly Archives: March, 2014

Collective bargaining

Strike averted at City of Portland

DCTU signs off on compromise language over contracting out
Retirement

Oregon retirees group stays busy, involved in community

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

Dodging a Norquist attack on unions

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

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

Beetle, 65, retires after decades of union activism
Politics

Anti- high-capacity transit measure passes in Tigard

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

Mixed bag for labor in Oregon’s short legislative session

No big gains, but no setbacks either.
Collective bargaining

Portland State University professors authorize strike

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

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

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

Oregon AFL-CIO chooses who to back in primary

Not all who sought endorsement got it.
Oregon

‘Right-to-work’ initiative dropped

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...
Collective bargaining

Workers consider strike after City of Portland worsens its offer

City appears in no hurry to reach deal with 1,600 workers in the DCTU
Politics

Labor council stays out of Portland City Council races — for now

Delegates vote to endorse Deborah Kafoury in heated race for Multnomah County chair
Building our communities

Union members pass the hat, collect $450 for slain worker

AFSCME member Grady Waxenfelter was shot by a truck driver while doing his job as a weighmaster
Politics

Labor groups oppose Tigard ballot measure targeting high-capacity transit

At stake is a massive construction project that would employ union labor
Politics

State to include apprenticeships in education goals

Apprenticeships, left out earlier, will be counted as a post-secondary credential by the state
Collective bargaining

CWA gets bare-bones contract with Fund for the Public Interest

Rules at the PIRG fundraiser will be slightly less draconian under the first-ever union agreement.
Clackamas County

Clackamas County commissioners have harsh words for Teamsters, AMR

Tootie Smith pledges to shine a light on union tactics until her dying days.
Collective bargaining

Medford teachers end 16-day strike

The strike raised the profile of unions in Southern Oregon.
Collective bargaining

Portland teachers ratify new contract

The three-year deal lightens teacher workload and provides 2.3 percent annual raises

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