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Monthly Archives: March, 2022

Washington

Washington closes 2022 legislative session with short list of worker gains

Lawmakers supported apprenticeship and green energy, but punted again on proposals to set standards for hospital staffing.
Union Organizing

Elon Musk baiting union again

Tesla workers held their first-ever workplace representation vote Feb. 28 ... in Germany. But in the US, Tesla has so far resisted unionizing.
Union democracy

Washington AFL-CIO president won’t run again

Southwest Washington union officer Shannon Myers and WSLC’s political director Cherika Carter will contest for the number two spot.
Union democracy

National AFL-CIO leader takes job at Greenpeace

Tefere Gebre, executive vice president of the national AFL-CIO, says the climate crisis is the "fight of our lifetime.” 
Union democracy

Oregon AFL-CIO holds convention this weekend at Portland Hyatt

Delegates will see debates between candidates for governor and labor commissioner, and will honor outstanding union members and lawmakers.
Comment

‘The union,’ or ‘Our union’?

When members call their organizations “the union," instead of "our union" it frames the union as an outside “third party."
Labor History

What’s it like to strike?

Strikes, once common, are rare today. We asked Northwest Labor Press readers to share their strike stories.
Collective bargaining

Nurses say strike could be coming at Providence

Two years into the pandemic, nurses at Providence health facilities statewide are at a breaking point. Will Providence listen?
Analysis

Unemployment is down. But then so is employment.

Unemployment was down to 4.0% last month, almost back to 3.5%, where it was two years ago before the pandemic.
Oregon

Val Hoyle vies to carry on DeFazio’s labor legacy

Union leaders winced when they learned a labor champion was leaving Congress. Now a candidate with strong labor ties looks to succeed him.
Collective bargaining

UFCW reaches tentative deal with Safeway, Albertsons

Fred Meyer and Safeway/Albertsons bargained separately this time. Safeway and Albertsons are owned by Boise-based Albertsons Companies.
Our Jobs

KGW-TV is being sold to a hedge fund … and that could be okay for workers

Media giant Tegna Inc. is being acquired by the New York based hedge fund Standard General for $5.4 billion.
Building our communities

Some serious union gumbo 

For $20, attendees got seafood gumbo, corn bread, and dessert. This year, they sold out of gumbo after 350 bowls, and had to lock the doors. 
Union Organizing

Suicide hotline workers vote to unionize

More than 160 employees of nonprofit behavioral health provider Lines for Life are now members of AFSCME Local 1790.
Analysis

The 16 biggest strikes of 2021

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports annually on large work stoppages. Here are the 16 major actions happened in 2021, and how they turned out.
Portland

Building Trades Council backs Hardesty challenger Vadim Mozyrsky

The council, which represents 27 construction union locals and about 20,000 Portland-area union members, voted on the endorsement Feb. 22.
Politics

Unions backing Jessica Vega Pederson for Multnomah County Chair

Delegates to the Northwest Oregon Labor Council voted to endorse Jessica Vega Pederson for Multnomah County Chair at their Feb. 28 meeting.
Oregon

Several unions now favor McLeod-Skinner in challenge to Kurt Schrader

Since 2020, redistricting has made Oregon's 5th Congressional District more favorable terrain for progressives.
Oregon

OEA backs Tina Kotek, Christina Stephenson

The endorsements were decided by hundreds of delegates at a two-day virtual convention of the union’s political action committee.
Analysis

U.S. strikes rare but increasing in 2021

The year 2021 had twice as many large work stoppages as 2020, but still far fewer than in the teachers-union-led strike surge of 2018-2019.
Comment

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

What caused labor's decline, and is key to its revival? No answer has been more persuasive than the one I got from a guy named Joe in 2011.
Collective bargaining

First union contract for behavioral health workers in the Columbia Gorge

After 16 months of negotiating, employees of the Mid-Columbia Center for Living will see pay increases totaling 13% over the next three years.
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