May 2021 - Page 2 of 3 - nwLaborPress

Oregon will receive billions in federal dollars. This is an opportunity to invest in the heroic workers who kept our communities functioning.

Labor’s Community Service Agency, serving union families statewide, has launched a COVID Safety-Net Spring Fundraiser through May 31.

Faculty at the Oregon Institute of Technology were the last at any Oregon public university to unionize … and the first to strike.

Ballots will be counted May 28 to determine if a group of 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers want a union.

The Powell’s Books union contract offers laid off workers recall rights when jobs reappear, but the CEO says those recall rights have expired.

Collective Bargaining

IPS repairs electric motors and generators. Pay under the Metal Trades Council contracts runs from $22 to $33 an hour.

OFNHP says understaffing is leading to high turnover at in Sunnyside’s Emergency Department—40 nurses (57%) have left in the last year.

Officially federal labor law is supposed to encourage collective bargaining, but Biden says the government “has not used its full authority.”

Washington state’s best (and only) news outlet dedicated to unions and working people, The Stand just turned 10.

The agreement also commits Avamere to union neutrality, which would speed unionization at more nursing homes and assisted living centers.