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Monthly Archives: June, 2022

Worker safety

For paramedics, assaults become part of the job

Assaults on paramedics and EMTs have changed the nature of a job for workers who didn’t historically face on-the-job violence.
Workers Rights

Homeless nonprofit fires whistleblower

Things aren’t ‘all good’ at All Good Northwest, which runs tiny house villages for the homeless in Portland.
Oregon

Portland-area minimum wage reaches $14.75

Oregon’s minimum wage gets its last big increase July 1 under a 2016 law that phased in raises over six years.
Worker safety

Oregon OSHA heat and smoke rules official as of July 1

It took a few years, but Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health agency has finalized rules protecting Oregon workers from heat and smoke.
Our Jobs

Raising the roof

Union members are getting experience with mass timber at Portland International Airport's new terminal roof.
Labor History

The law that poisoned labor: Taft-Hartley turns 75

Taft-Hartley brought 12 years of explosive union growth to a sudden end, and it contributed to what has now been a 75-year decline.
National

Another sign of labor revival

As many as 4,000 labor activists - including 100 from Portland - gathered in Chicago June 16-19 for the national Labor Notes conference.
Multnomah County

County ballot measure would provide lawyers to tenants facing eviction

Tenants rights advocates are petitioning for a Multnomah County initiative to provide free legal representation for tenants facing eviction.
Union Organizing

Cannabis boycott remains as strike wanes

At Gresham cannabis grower CBN Holdings, a strike for union recognition has dragged on without result, and workers have had to find new jobs.
Workers Rights

AFL-CIO: Abortion rights are workers rights

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reverse its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision drew immediate opposition from national labor groups.
Collective bargaining

ILWU: No strike imminent at West Coast ports

The International Longshore & Warehouse Union and West Coast ports say they’re focused on negotiating, rather than escalating action.
Union Organizing

Machinists file for union election at Weyerhaeuser facilities in Albany and Eugene

The two units, some of the last remaining nonunion, would bring 145 new members to Machinists District Lodge W24.
Union democracy

Professors union affiliates with AFT, AFL-CIO

Delegates to the American Association of University Professors’ biennial meeting voted to affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers.
Union Organizing

Apple store workers form first ever union

An Apple retail store in Towson, Maryland, in June became the first Apple store in the country to unionize.
Union Organizing

Another New Seasons union announced

A start-up union formed by workers at New Seasons Market on Southeast Division Street in Portland is organizing at a second location.
Union Organizing

Starbucks union continues Portland winning streak

Workers United has won union elections at all 11 Portland-area Starbucks stores where ballots have been counted.
Union Organizing

Doctors announce union at St. Charles in Bend

A newly formed union has requested a union election among 304 medical professionals St. Charles Medical Group.
Comment

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

Over the last six months, an extraordinary union movement has had young workers defying long-held assumptions.
People

Dwain Panian goes back up the hill

Panian, 60, retired July 1 after 38 years working at the Freightliner truck plant, the last five as a Machinists rep
Collective bargaining

Providence nurses reject tentative agreement

If they don't reach a deal soon, Oregon Nurses Association members could strike at three Providence hospitals July 11.
Labor History

OPB to air new documentary on 1934 West Coast longshore strike

One of the most thrilling episodes of American labor history will soon come to life on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB).
Union Organizing

Portland child care workers launch union

Workers at Portland-based Joyful Noise Child Development Centers have launched a union drive to join ILWU Local 5.
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