January 2017 - nwLaborPress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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