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Monthly Archives: June, 2016

Trade

Fast Track Democrats won’t be on stage at Labor Day picnic

The annual picnic sponsored by the NW Oregon Labor Council attracts nearly 18,000 people.
Building our communities

Help in a housing crisis: Oregon AFL-CIO to turn its HQ into worker housing

A new union-funded, union-built development would combine union offices with affordable housing
Collective bargaining

Cure for corporate medicine: A doctors’ union contract

Doctors who unionized to fight outsourcing at PeaceHealth in Springfield now have a first contract.
Workers Rights

Union wins reinstatement for Lane County IT worker fired for medical marijuana

Thanks to his union, IT worker Michael Hirsch was reinstated with back pay
Union Organizing

Workers at Cemex join Operating Engineers Local 701

A previous effort to unionize failed after union supporters were fired.
Union Organizing

At a Boeing contractor in Portland, workers vote whether to go union

Well-paid professional union-busters will try to talk low-wage workers out of unionizing.
People

Proud to be Union — AND Transgender

Pride At Work Oregon chapter president Be Marston tells how she went from a boss-hating bartender to a passionate believer in unions.
Union democracy

Farrell Richartz appointed business manager at LiUNA Local 483

He will serve out the remainder of former business manager Erica Askin’s term.
Union Organizing

Oregon AFL-CIO endorses the Burgerville Workers Union

"Solidarity is a cornerstone of unionism," the resolution declares.
Buying Union

Laid-off Nabisco workers travel the country to boycott Mexican-made Oreos

In Portland, a laid-off Chicago worker delivers a message: The fight is bigger than Mondelēz
Our Jobs

Oregon Tradeswomen wins $650,000 to recruit women region-wide to the trades

The grant is one of three the U.S. Department of Labor awarded nationally.
Washington

AFL-CIO rates Washington state lawmakers after low-energy session

Labor's expectations were low for Washington's 2016 legislative session, and those expectations were met.
Worker safety

Lead crisis in schools: Could underfunding of maintenance be the culprit?

Decades of cuts have made insufficient maintenance the new normal.
Collective bargaining

Finally: Stagehands at Oregon Shakespeare Festival have their first union contract

A year after stagehands voted to unionize, they have a contract with raises and job security.
Comment

Muhammad Ali: A champion of the people

Ali was an anti-establishment hero who could not be bought and could not be bullied.
People

South Florida labor leader named newest faculty member at University of Oregon LERC

Sherman Henry is the longtime leader of an AFSCME local at the nation's fourth-largest school system.
People

LERC instructor Helen Moss retires

Moss has been with University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center since 1999.
Building our communities

2016 Labor Appreciation & Recognition Dinner

This year’s NOLC awards event raised $2,500 for Labor’s Community Service Agency.
Union Organizing

First Student Corvallis bus drivers stay union

Workers reject a decertification effort in a 41-to-21 vote.
Union Organizing

Big union win at PeaceHealth Vancouver hospital

It was an emotional scene at the vote count, as 310 hospital technicians voted nearly 3-to-1 in favor of unionizing, with 93 percent casting ballots.
Union democracy

City union breakup: Laborers Local 483 leaves the District Council of Trade Unions

Going forward, Local 483 will bargain its own contract with the City of Portland.

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