October 2016 - nwLaborPress

DEAL: Daimler and unions reach agreement on a new 5-year contract at the Portland truck plant

Oct 29, 2016

Wages will rise by $3.25 an hour for the plant’s 500+ workers.

How to fly union

Oct 28, 2016

Seven airlines account for 80% of miles flown. Want to guess which ones are union?

Union pension fund invests in new urban office campus in NW Portland

Oct 27, 2016

The 300,000-square-foot urban office development is expected to be completed in late 2017.

Greg Pallesen elected president of AWPPW

Oct 27, 2016

An autonomous division of the Carpenters, AWPPW represents 4,500 pulp and paper mill workers.

Unions champion Longview coal export terminal

Oct 26, 2016

Officers of construction and industrial unions turned out Oct. 24 to support a controversial coal export terminal proposed for a former industrial site in Longview.

Fast food union empties out Burgerville – on game night

Oct 26, 2016

On the night of the Portland Trail Blazers season opening game, a lively protest targeted a Burgerville three blocks from Moda Center.

Rebuilding Heritage Village with union help

Oct 24, 2016

Volunteers fix up homes to prevent evictions in a manufactured home community.

After decades of legislative failure to solve the state’s revenue problem, union-sponsored Measure 97 will make a better Oregon —by asking giant corporations to pay their fair share. And that could lead to similar efforts around the country.

Five corporate lies (and two truths) about Measure 97

Oct 20, 2016

$18.3 million in mostly out-of-state corporate money buys a lot of ads and spreads a lot of disinformation, doubt and fear about Measure 97. Don’t be fooled.