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Month: January 2017

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Analysis

Annual survey records further union membership declines

Jan 26, 2017

Union membership fell to 10.7 percent of the U.S. workforce, and 6.4 percent in the private sector.

Workers Rights

Instafab hires union-buster Bob Tiernan

Jan 18, 2017

Tiernan, former chair of the Oregon Republican Party, is a labor relations consultant who helped rid a Berkeley grocery of its union.

Analysis

LOOKING BACK ON THE OBAMA YEARS

Jan 18, 2017

Obama ignored labor on trade and healthcare, and pro-worker reforms came mostly too late.

Buy Union

Staples boycott ends with union win

Jan 17, 2017

The National Labor Relations Board ordered the US Postal Service to stop privatizing union members’ work.

National

Anti-union ‘right-to-work’ laws spreading quickly

Jan 17, 2017

Kentucky on Jan. 7 became the 27th “right to work” state. Missouri will be next, and maybe even New Hampshire.

Portland

Building Trades Council joins group challenging Portland’s ban on new fossil fuel terminals

Jan 17, 2017

The yet-to-be-named coalition is preparing to file a petition for review with the Land Use Board of Appeals.

People

Tragedy strikes Cement Masons Local 555 … again

Jan 17, 2017

Journeyman mason Maurice “Mo” Starks, a member of Local 555, was killed in a roll-over car crash on I-405 in Portland.

People

Portland Bakery Union member Shad Clark made international VP for Western Region

Jan 17, 2017

The former Local 114 business agent has a long history as a union worker and activist.

Comment

GOP ramping up to dismantle the labor movement

Jan 17, 2017

Every one of us has an obligation to fight as hard as we can, to get off the couch and activate and agitate.

People

Vickie Burns retires from Labor’s Community Service Agency

Jan 16, 2017

LCSA is a labor-affiliated non-profit charity sponsored by United Way.

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