February 2022 - nwLaborPress

The vegan Sri Lankan spot on Southeast Belmont in Portland is a worker-owned co-op. Now non-owner employees will be union.

Local building trade unions have been picketing the colossal construction site to protest out-of-state contractors and subpar wages.

America’s annual trade deficit—the amount by which imports are greater than exports—jumped 27% in 2021 to a new record, $859.1 billion.

The latest unions to endorse the former Oregon House speaker are Northwest Carpenters and SEIU Locals 503 and 49, totaling 96,000 members.

Bill Sizemore, who was the Oregon union movement’s foremost arch-nemesis in the 1990s, is running for governor again.

Oregon agricultural workers could join the rest of the workforce in receiving overtime pay under a proposal in the legislature.

Workers at the Nabisco Portland bakery currently face discipline for refusing to work extra shifts, even when notified at the last minute.

The Longview newsroom joined the NewsGuild last May. But bargaining with Lee Enterprises—which owns 77 newspapers—isn’t going well.

Collective Bargaining

The union and City have been negotiating the contract since early 2020, and have been in mediation since mid-2021.

Tired of the tedium, the pomposity, the gaffes of the annual Academy Awards? That’s management’s award ceremony.