February 2021 - nwLaborPress

Continuing a string of overtures to the labor movement, Biden announced a pro-union NLRB nominee and reversed Trump moves on apprenticeship.

It looks like the 2018-2019 strike surge was a blip, not the start of a new trend. Last year there were just 8 strikes of over 1,000 workers.

Congress may soon consider the most game-changing pro-union legislation in 80 years. The PRO Act would restore workers’ right to unionize.

City of Portland building code enforcers, facing layoff, are getting some unexpected love from the construction industry.

Electrician Wayne Chow, lobbying for the building trades in Salem, knows the difference a union makes, having suffered wage theft first hand.

The previous general counsel, a management-side labor lawyer appointed by Trump, tried to muzzle Scabby the Rat as soon as he took office.

We must ensure that the Legislature will do what it takes to prioritize workplace and economic safety and security.

Congress’ latest COVID relief bill would also shore up declining union-sponsored multi-employer pensions and restore pension benefits.

Former national AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, died Feb. 1 at age 86.

One of labor’s best-loved folk singer-songwriters, who performed on countless strike picket lines, died Feb. 3 of COVID-19.