July 2023 - nwLaborPress

An estimated 340,000 Teamsters-represented workers at UPS are set to strike after their contract expires if no new agreement is in place.

A new program in Oregon gives women prisoners a chance to prove themselves in a skilled trade and enter promising career upon release.

It’s going to keep getting hotter. And workers need to know how to stay safe in heat.

The union rights Oregon public employees have today were won because workers struck in the lead up to a landmark bill in 1973.

Cascadia Behavioral Health employee Haley Rogers, a member of AFSCME Local 1790-4, was stabbed to death July 16 by one of her patients.

Affiliate CWA opposed the merger but changed its stance in June 2022 after Microsoft signed a union neutrality pledge.

Jordan Fosdick, a service technician at the natural gas utility, will represent nearly 600 members of OPEIU Local 11.

Mt. Hood Community College now offers associates degrees to journeymen sheet metal workers.

A union crane operator earns a police commendation for keeping cool when it mattered.

Two unions representing nearly 30,000 Oregon state workers reached agreements that would provide a cumulative 13% raise over two years.