March 2022 - nwLaborPress

A federal disclosure shows Jim Fisher himself made the agreement with a union-busting firm. Mandatory antiunion meetings started immediately.

Nearly 170 Starbucks locations nationwide have requested union representation elections so far, including 16 in Oregon.

In 1993 U of O grad Liz Shuler went to work at Portland-based IBEW Local 125, her father’s local. Today she’s America’s top union leader.

About 1,100 Alabama miners are putting their livelihoods on the line for dignity and justice in a fight with America’s biggest hedge funds.

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, a former Boston building trades union leader, wants more women in the trades.

Workers at the Alliance For A Healthier Generation contacted OPEIU Local 11 last year expressing interest in unionizing.

Providence nurses want staffing ratios, adequate breaks, affordable health insurance, and adequate pay increases.

The March 18-20 Oregon AFL-CIO convention was the first since the pandemic, and the first union event at the Hyatt Regency Portland.

The Metal Trades Council is planning a community support rally at the Portland shipyard’s main gate at 9:30 a.m. April 9.

Flower and bulb harvest workers in Washington struck for three days—until management agreed to come to the bargaining table.