August 2023 - nwLaborPress

With all new leadership and an $825 million strike fund, the union is determined to reverse past concessions.

Strikes are way up. Union approval is at a 57-year high. And yet as a percent of the workforce unions are at the lowest level since the ’20s.

If the public teaching hospital buys the private health system, it would eclipse Intel as the largest metro-area employer.

A new report paid for by the district confirms what union tradespeople who maintain schools have been saying for years.

Two of the three bargaining units that held a five-day strike in June now have significant pay raises, more time off, and safer staffing.

Collective Bargaining

Around 40 workers at the Burgerville near the Oregon Convention Center struck July 28-29 after negotiations with company leaders stagnated.

Newly unionized shipyard painters in Portland and Seattle will get better health insurance and raises totaling $4.06 an hour over 3 years.

The nonprofit that operates several Portland homeless camps fired a whistleblower last year. Now it’s at peace with the union.

PeaceHealth will lay off nearly 30 union-represented workers this fall when it closes an urgent care clinic in Vancouver.

The award supports the children or grandchildren of union members in unions that are affiliated with the building trades council.