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Month: July 2018

Collective Bargaining

Union bakers picket outside Portland home of Nabisco board member

Jul 25, 2018

The profitable company is halting pension contributions at the same time it pays its executives so much that even shareholders are gagging.

Washington

A union guide to Washington’s August primary

Jul 17, 2018

State AFL-CIO delegates voted on endorsements May 19 in Seattle and July 17-19 in Wenatchee.

Analysis

Lessons of the West Virginia teachers strike

Jul 17, 2018

One of the strike’s leaders will be visiting Portland July 23.

National

Trump Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh has a long history of anti-worker rulings

Jul 17, 2018

The DC Appeals court judge is known in Washington as a highly partisan judicial figure with a history of one-sided rulings in favor of corporations.

Multnomah County

Multnomah County drops workload language in new ambulance contract

Jul 17, 2018

Commissioner Loretta Smith was the lone vote against a contract with AMR, opposed by Teamsters, that eliminates a method of limiting workload.

Comment

Ballot measure fight coming this November

Jul 17, 2018

Four initiatives heading for the Oregon ballot reflect a far-right, corporatist agenda, but the union movement stands ready to repeal them. 

Portland

AFSCME Local 189 backs Jo Ann Hardesty for Portland City Council

Jul 16, 2018

In the May primary, Local 189 backed Andrea Valderrama for that seat, but she placed fourth in a six-candidate field.

Collective Bargaining

AFSCME members ratify first contract at Volunteers of America

Jul 16, 2018

The employer’s hard-line stance crumbled a week before VOA’s annual fundraising gala, which the union planned to picket.

People

Construction trades unions say goodbye to retiring OHSU president Joe Robertson

Jul 16, 2018

Robertson was lauded as a ‘Building Trades champion’ for transforming the South Waterfront and Marquam Hill with union labor.

Oregon

Oregon public employee unions drop corporate tax transparency initiative to focus on defensive ballot fights

Jul 12, 2018

To unite business and labor against a pair of anti-tax measures, governor Kate Brown brokers a stand-down on a union-backed initiative.

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