May 2022 - Page 4 of 4 - nwLaborPress

So-called “safe rest villages” in Portland are highly unsafe for staffers, leading workers to seek union representation with AFSCME.

Workers at four Starbucks stores in Eugene voted to unionize on April 28, joining Oregon’s first union Starbucks that voted two weeks prior.

Boycott: UFCW Local 555 says don’t buy Cannabis Nation products until the company recognizes union representation for workers.

AFSCME says Portland city management bargained in bad faith and implemented its re-entry plan without union agreement.

For a class assignment, three Portland high school students formed a “workers’ rights board” and explored anti-union activity at Starbucks.

Fiona Yau-Luu, Eva Rippeteau and Thomas Spisak-Mosher are running to be the next secretary-treasurer of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council.

Wages rise $3.95 an hour under the new agreement, which covers nearly 1,000 metal trades workers at Portland and Seattle shipyards.

Bob Tackett will return to Arkansas after decades of Oregon union involvement, most recently with the Northwest Oregon Labor Council.