October 2023 - nwLaborPress

The pre-apprenticeship nonprofit is hemorrhaging board members and staff and may be losing favor with local unions.

75,000 workers struck Kaiser Permanente for 3 days. Now a 4-year agreement brokered by the U.S. Secretary of Labor provides 21% raises.

A strike is likely and will include lab techs, service, and maintenance workers at PeaceHealth hospitals in Vancouver and Longview.

Dentists say seeing more patients per day will lower the quality of care they offer to Medicaid enrollees and uninsured or homeless patients.

Bankruptcy is the fallout from a fight for two jobs on the Portland docks. The longshore union has been battling in court for over 10 years.

After eight months of bargaining and an overwhelming strike vote, nurses at Columbia Memorial Health reached agreement for a new contract.

Picketing outside the privately owned Coffin Butte landfill, they’re in a fight against a $13.5 billion a year Goliath.

All told, 235 doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants would unionize at all eight hospitals.

Ridwell provides curbside collection of hard to recycle items like batteries, plastic clamshell containers, lightbulbs, and more.

Represented by IBEW Local 89, the new unit includes six funeral directors and office coordinators at Neptune Cremation in Happy Valley.