May 2022 - nwLaborPress

Two decades of Gallup polls show a trend: Americans are increasingly calling themselves “working class” again.

An international union federation and the U.S. Coast Guard helped 12 Chinese crew members leave a ship they’d been on for 14 months.

Oregon unions looked celebrate a night of electoral victories when this issue went to press May 17, election night.

Two years after a noose incident on a downtown Portland job site, signs of change are percolating in the construction industry.

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With labor activity on the rise this year, 40 U.S. senators say the National Labor Relations Board needs more funding to keep up.

Hammered out in 10 months, the union’s first contract with newspaper owner Lee Enterprises will be up in a year.

The complaint brings together a slew of charges the union Workers United filed against Starbucks from November 2021 through April 2022.

Baristas shut down stores to protest the company’s anti-union stance in the Pacific Northwest and nationally.

Starbucks’ boss says only nonunion stores will get raises. Lawmakers called him out for his attempts to dissuade unionizing.

Eleven Starbucks in Oregon and 71 across the country have unionized, and the number is increasing by the day.