August 2015 - nwLaborPress

Oregon Building Trades Council celebrates 75th anniversary

Aug 31, 2015

The Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council celebrated its 75th anniversary with a gala banquet Aug. 21 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. The celebration was in conjunction with the Council’s annual convention

GOP debate — business as usual

Aug 19, 2015

What a contrast: Bernie, and a pack of tone-deaf GOP candidates

State AFL-CIO scores Washington lawmakers

Aug 19, 2015

Four SW Washington Democrats get 100 percent, but a Centralia Republican leads the anti-labor pack

Two weeks in Alabama

Aug 19, 2015

OSEA members say volunteering in the Deep South brings home how precious union rights are

Introducing Laborers Local 737

Aug 18, 2015

Laborers Locals 296, 320, and 121 merge to make Local 737

New business manager at Sheet Metal Local 16: Charlie Johnson

Aug 18, 2015

Charlie Johnson succeeds John Candioto, who resigned

ATI locks out steelworkers in Albany and around the country

Aug 17, 2015

Final offer would slash health benefits and end pension for new hires

Oregon’s Central Labor Councils convert to chapters of state AFL-CIO

Aug 13, 2015

The restructuring comes with new staff support for local labor activity.

Workers threaten strike at Longview paper mill

Aug 11, 2015

Kapstone, the mill’s new owner, imposed its final offer Aug. 10.

Airport contractor refuses to bargain with Machinists

Aug 7, 2015

ABM would rather pay lawyers to delay the inevitable.