December 2018

So much for antitrust? Government approves merger of paper mill giants

Dec 4, 2018

More paper mill closures ahead? The nation’s second largest paper producer just gobbled up the fifth largest.

Congress delays report on union pension fix

Dec 4, 2018

The Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans was supposed to vote on a solution to the looming crisis in union-sponsored pensions by the end of November.

A union for political campaign workers?

Dec 4, 2018

Campaign Workers Guild signs its first Oregon contract with state representative Teresa Alonso Leon.

Terry Lansing retires after 14 years at the helm of Bakers Local 114

Dec 4, 2018

Lansing retired Dec. 2 after a lifetime of involvement in the labor movement.

Oregon Zoo contracts out food service

Dec 4, 2018

Reversing the usual narrative, workers will be better off at Aramark, thanks to skillful union negotiations.

Bikes for kids, with the help of longshore workers and Boeing Machinists

Dec 4, 2018

Boeing Machinist volunteers assembled 80 bikes for the children of unemployed union members.

A sister to lead the Brotherhood

Dec 4, 2018

The region’s largest construction union, 23,000-member Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, has a new top officer: Evelyn Shapiro. Shapiro, 40, is the first woman ever elected to head a regional council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters in the United States.

So much for antitrust? Government approves merger of paper mill giants

Congress delays report on union pension fix

A union for political campaign workers?

Terry Lansing retires after 14 years at the helm of Bakers Local 114

Oregon Zoo contracts out food service

Bikes for kids, with the help of longshore workers and Boeing Machinists

A sister to lead the Brotherhood

Union Cab quietly goes non-union

Northwest Labor Press staff changes

The next generation of Cement Masons