Monthly Archives: June, 2015

Food Front Cooperative Grocery workers vote to unionize

Workers want the stability of a union contract, pay transparency, and a grievance process

Oregon Shakespeare Festival goes union with IATSE

Backstage crew members kept their union campaign positive.

Outsourced school bus drivers vote to rejoin Oregon School Employees Association

They were union before Winston-Dillard School District outsourced student transportation in 2013

Trumka to Oregon’s labor movement: Organize

American labor's top official says the movement is in transition.

Senate passes Fast Track

If House follows, NAFTA-style deals like TPP would proliferate.

Bend, Eugene mail processing centers to remain open

Postal unions and others have protested the proposed plant closures for more than a year.

Shipyard workers at Cascade General ratify new contract

It was the third contract vote for members of the Portland Metal Trades at Vigor shipyard

Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership: Meet the ‘partners’

Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei are human rights violators where workers lack basic rights.

DÉJÀ VU?

Why claims about the “unprecedented” labor protections of the TPP sound so familiar …

FAST TRACK: How Northwest Senators voted

Wyden faces re-election in 2016. CEOs will remember his role passing Fast Track. Will you?

Letter Carriers deliver more than the mail

Over 4,000 Oregon and SW Washington letter carriers delivered 1.2 million pounds of donated food

Caregivers at Sacred Heart in Springfield unionize

It was the largest unit to have a union election in Oregon healthcare for nearly two decades.

Portland labor charity launches new community volunteer program

A new Labor’s Community Service Agency program will help union members volunteer in the community

Bruce Zimmerman 1944-2015

Zimmerman was president of IBEW Local 48 and assistant director at the NECA-IBEW Training Center

At Oregon Shakespeare Festival, stagehands want a union

Over management objections, workers will vote on whether to join IATSE.