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Monthly Archives: March, 2021

Collective bargaining

Nabisco extends union contracts but closes plants

BCTGM agreed to extend nationwide contracts to the end of May and raise wage 2.25%. But Nabisco is closing plants in Georgia and New Jersey.
Union democracy

IAFF Local 1805 merges into 452

1805 represented Clark County Fire District 6 and paramedics at North Country Emergency Medical Service, and 452 represents Vancouver Fire.
Building our communities

Workers Helping Workers: organized labor distributes food boxes to members impacted by COVID-19

An organization created by unions—Workers Helping Workers—held its fourth food box distribution March 14, distributing over 1,400 food boxes.
In Memoriam

Clarence Noon, 1939-2021

Noon was a business rep for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 55 and later Council 5.
Training the Next Generation

New labor representation on Apprenticeship Council

Laborers Local 737 political assistant Danielle Garza joins several other unionists on the Oregon Apprenticeship and Training Council.
Politics

Union leader vies to succeed state rep Diego Hernandez

Kaiser Permanente nurse Adrienne Enghouse, former president of OFNHP, is one of three candidates being considered for the vacancy.
Collective bargaining

Workers at Grand Central Baking ratify their first union contract

In its first contract with Bakers Local 114, the wholesale bakery will pay overtime after 8.5 hours and raise wages 8% over three years.
Building our communities

THE YEAR OF COVID

March 11 will mark a year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. The pandemic hit the local union movement highly unevenly.
National

A message from the president

With Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama voting on a union this month, Joe Biden speaks out: Unions built the middle class, not Wall Street.
Union Organizing

Springfield nursing home strike ends with mass resignation

After 23 residents died in nine weeks, workers struck for two weeks to demand union recognition. The nursing home's investor owners refused.
In Memoriam

Bill Belanger, 1942-2021

A former apprenticeship coordinator, president, and business agent of Bricklayers Local 1, he remained active in the union to the end.
In Memoriam

Burton David White, 1930-2021

After a decade and a half at Oregon and California nurses unions, he spent most of his career mediating and arbitrating labor disagreements.
In Memoriam

Bill Miller, Jr., 1948-2021

Miller was business manager of Portland-based IBEW Local 125 when the Enron scandal robbed PGE lineman of retirement savings.
Workers Rights

Right to work bill gets pummeled in Montana Legislature

For Montana’s labor movement, it was a fight for life: Union foes thought they'd pass “right to work” given a 2-1 Republican House majority.
Worker safety

Providence nurses demand COVID safety

Nearly 100 union nurses from multiple Providence facilities were joined by Oregon AFL-CIO President Graham Trainor and Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran at a...
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