July 2018 - nwLaborPress

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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