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Month: June 2015

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Retirement

PBGC readies rules to cut retiree pension benefits

Jun 30, 2015

Severely distressed union pension plans may soon start cutting benefits for existing retirees.

Trade

Fast-tracking trade deals signed into law

Jun 30, 2015

A week after unions celebrated a setback for Fast Track, the seeming victory came unzipped.

Portland

Building Trades leader Willy Myers tapped for Portland Development Commission

Jun 30, 2015

Mayor Charlie Hales appoints Myers to succeed John Mohlis of the State Building Trades Council

Union Democracy

Plumbers and Fitters Local 290 re-elects Al Shropshire

Jun 30, 2015

Local 290 represents 4,100 workers in construction, industrial, and shipyards.

Workers Rights

You take one of us on, you take all of us on

Jun 30, 2015

Portland Jobs With Justice carried out a three-hour-long protest June 17, including a rally outside City Hall calling for a $15 minimum wage, a delegation to Skanska in support of striking ironworkers, and the brief

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Union Organizing

Oregon Shakespeare Festival files legal objection after stagehands vote to join IATSE

Jun 30, 2015

The appeal could add months of delay.

Culture

Summer Institute for Women comes to Portland

Jun 30, 2015

This year’s Institute drew 150 attendees, including about 60 from Canada

Labor History

Remembering Portland Longshore’s Bloody Wednesday

Jun 30, 2015

On July 11, 1934, a train full of Portland police opened fire on a strike picketline; 4 were hit.

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Collective Bargaining

UNITE HERE calls first contract a big victory for Portland airport food service workers

Jun 30, 2015

Wages will rise $1.40 an hour, and workers will get major scheduling improvements

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Jobs

Union pension fund to invest $26 million at Westmoreland Union Manor

Jun 30, 2015

Rehabbing the affordable building for Portland seniors will create 290 union construction jobs.

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