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Month: March 2021

National

A message from the president

Mar 3, 2021

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

Mar 3, 2021

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

Mar 3, 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

Mar 3, 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

Mar 3, 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

Mar 3, 2021

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.

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