Monthly Archives: June, 2021

Local Painters union members have been falling behind for a generation. They’re not gonna take it any more.

"Local 89. Local 89. No representation. Local 89." One by one, Oregon Employment Relations Board election coordinator Sabrina Dunsworth examined, displayed, and announced the vote, which took place live via Zoom May 28.

BY THE BOOK CAMPAIGN: Unlike for private sector workers covered under federal law, Oregon law makes getting a union for public workers—like those at Hillsboro’s Shute Park library, above—as easy as signing cards.

Clark College faculty won big gains in a January 2020 strike, but staff and budget cuts have continued.

In Oregon's May 2021 election, unions and labor councils got active in races for school boards, and won nearly three in four.

The snack-maker, flush with profits amid a snack boom, is demanding further concessions from its main union.

Better than NAFTA, but how real are the labor rights provisions that were added to Trump's trade treaty with Mexico and Canada? A new filing by the national AFL-CIO aims to find out.

Limiting the work week to 40 hours isn’t just labor’s most important historic win. It also prevents an early death for working people. 

UNION MADE: Scott Zadow, Northwest Oregon Labor Council's newly elected president, grew up part of a firmly union family and followed his father and uncle into IBEW Local 48. His wife, Brandy Lalland, is a teacher and member of the teachers’ union at David Douglas School District. From left are their daughters Abigail Cram and twins Addison and Sophia Zadow.