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Month: December 2021

Collective Bargaining

Strike set to begin at Fred Meyer, QFC 

Dec 16, 2021

Members of UFCW Local 555 are set to strike 6 a.m. Dec. 17 at Fred Meyer and QFC stores in the Portland area, Bend, and Klamath Falls.

Collective Bargaining

City of Portland unions declare impasse

Dec 16, 2021

The unit of 1,180 city workers in the District Council of Trade Unions could strike as soon as Jan. 19, after bargaining since July 2020.

Jobs

End of the line for Jordan Cove

Dec 16, 2021

Pembina pulls the plug on a proposed  natural gas pipeline and export terminal in Coos Bay.

People

Labor Press editor to retire 

Dec 16, 2021

Michael Gutwig, 65, is retiring Dec. 31 after 35 years as editor of the Northwest Labor Press.

Collective Bargaining

Strike at Springfield hospital

Dec 16, 2021

Over 300 workers held a 5-day strike at McKenzie-Willamette Hospital to protest outsourcing of laundry, food service and housekeeping.

Collective Bargaining

Pay rises $2 an hour in new contract for home care workers

Dec 16, 2021

The deal between SEIU Local 503 and the State of Oregon covers 30,000 Oregon home care workers and also adds holidays and a step pay system.

Collective Bargaining

Workers could strike at shipyards in Portland and Seattle

Dec 16, 2021

By over 95%, Portland and Seattle shipyard workers voted to authorize a strike if the AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department can’t get a contract.

Collective Bargaining

Pandemic pay for County workers 

Dec 16, 2021

About 2,000 frontline employees at Multnomah County are getting a $1,500 check to recognize those who worked during the pandemic.

Union Organizing

NLRB finds Amazon broke the law, orders new election at warehouse in Alabama

Dec 16, 2021

Amazon’s “flagrant disregard” for labor law was so egregious that a new election must be held at its distribution center in Bessemer.

Union Organizing

Buffalo baristas form first Starbucks store union

Dec 16, 2021

Thirty down, 235,000 to go. On Dec. 9, mail ballots showed that workers at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York voted 19 to 8 to unionize.

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