May 2021 - nwLaborPress

Providence Health System fought against the union of housekeepers and CNAs at every stage in their three-year campaign to win improvements.

The Biden Administration continues to name union figures to top government positions. The latest two appointments will oversee trade policy.

Workers sometimes win when they raise the union banner, even when they lose the union.

For 30 years the national AFL-CIO has been reporting on workplace safety and fatalities on the job. Progress has stalled.

Newsroom staff at The Daily News in Longview, Washington voted 6-0 to unionize with the NewsGuild in mail ballots counted May 14.

Mount Hood Community College has agreements with over a dozen union apprenticeship programs to award equivalent college credits.

Oregon AFSCME will work to win better pay and standards for about 500 medical interpreters—those who translate for Medicaid patients.

The new award, for school support workers, is the result of an OSEA-backed bill passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2019.

The council has been operating a food bank since just before Christmas for 152 union members who were laid off because of COVID-19.

It took 10 weeks to get bargaining dates with Ziply Fiber, and then the company was a no-show at the first scheduled bargaining session.