October 2022 - nwLaborPress

This ballot guide lists candidates who have at least one labor organization endorsing them and who have opponents on the ballot.

As House speaker for nine years, Democratic candidate for governor Tina Kotek delivered landmark union-backed legislation year after year.

Machinists union members voted down another Weyerhaeuser proposal that failed to fix the core issues behind the walkout.

Leaders of the new union were the guests of honor at the annual Portland Jobs with Justice dinner this month.

A Multnomah County Commissioner took it very badly when county workers union AFSCME Local 88 backed her opponent.

Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertsons, QFC and 40 other chains could become one company under the proposed deal.

Portland-area construction leaders take stock of progress toward more welcoming workplaces over the past two years.

Local union members who work in mental health and addiction treatment are enrolling in on-the-job, union-supported workforce training.

In the end, management proposed a 4% raise in year one and merit-based raises of at least 1.5% in years 2 and 3.

AFSCME Local 328’s new agreement guarantees across-the-board raises of 7% in year one and 5% in years two and three.