December 2020 - nwLaborPress

A subsidiary of French multinational Danone voluntarily recognized the Teamsters after a campaign without employer interference.

A new round of aid is headed to jobless workers, struggling businesses and to people who are doing just fine.

Oregon Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle is asking for an additional 25 full-time staff. The governor’s recommended budget proposes to add 11.

Union crews that typically work Portland Trailblazer home games at the Moda Center have been replaced with non-union workers.

The union movement will be pushing fairly modest proposals when state legislatures meet in Salem and Olympia in 2021.

Oregon took months to develop guidelines for safe reopening. Now they won’t be enforced, Governor Kate Brown announced.

As chronicled in the Northwest Labor Press, here are some of the year’s most important developments for organized labor and working people.

Overcoming coronavirus restrictions, 50 unions participated in LCSA’s Presents from Partners, delivering $20,000 in food and gift cards.

The union parking lot became a winter wonderland, replacing a party the union has held for members and their kids and grandkids for 34 years.

A former financial secretary-treasurer and briefly president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757, he worked at TriMet from 1977 to 2011.