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Monthly Archives: October, 2023

Collective bargaining

Sheet Metal Local 16 wins $23.25 raise

Journeyman compensation will rise to $94.51 by 2027 in the contract with Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Association.
Worker safety

How to not get carpal tunnel

The Washington Department of Labor and Industries ‘Ideas Bank’ has ergonomics hacks for every industry.
Union Organizing

Reed College student workers want to join OPEIU Local 11

Forty-four housing advisers who live and work in dorms are unionizing after Reed changed their job duties without giving them a say.
Union democracy

UFCW Local 555 leaves the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, again

Local 555 withdrew last month from the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, a group that bargains for Kaiser employees in seven states.
Collective bargaining

Biggest ever Kaiser strike starts with pharmacy workers

Northwest pharmacists walked out Oct. 1, and 75,000 other Kaiser workers in five states began their own strike Oct. 4.
Collective bargaining

PeaceHealth workers vote to authorize strike

OFNHP and PeaceHealth are far apart on wages for lab techs and maintenance workers at hospitals in Vancouver and Longview.
Collective bargaining

OHSU averts nurse strike with $20.67/hour raise

The agreement with Oregon Nurses Association covers almost 3,200 nurses there. It also sets safe staffing standards and improves safety.
Politics

Teamster’s daughter

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Oregon’s lone Republican Congresswoman, is courting organized labor.
Union democracy

2023 Oregon AFL-CIO Convention Report

Over 210 delegates and 100 honorary delegates and guests assembled Sept. 21-23 in Bend for the state’s biggest labor gathering.
Union democracy

2023 Oregon Building Trades Convention Report

The council, made up of 27 AFL-CIO-affiliated local unions, held its convention Sept. 26-28 at Running Y Ranch near Klamath Falls.
Collective bargaining

Portland schools’ classified union rejects contract

The vote means the union of 1,350 school secretaries, teaching assistants, and other classified staff, is back to the bargaining table.
Collective bargaining

Teachers declare impasse, could strike at Portland Public Schools

PAT is pursuing a strategy known as “bargaining for the common good,” incorporating community members’ ideas into their contract.
Union Organizing

Elysian Brewing goes union

Workers at Elysian Brewing Co. in Seattle voted 20-12 to join Teamsters Local 117. It's one of just a handful of unionized craft breweries.
Workers Rights

Washington Court tests new law in Freedom Foundation case

Washington Federation of State Employee advocated for the measure amid a multi-year legal battle against the anti-union Freedom Foundation.
Union Organizing

Buffalo Exchange workers at downtown Portland store announce union

Buffalo Exchange hired Tonkon Torp, a Portland-based law firm that says it offers help with “union avoidance.”
Collective bargaining

Las Vegas casino workers authorize strike

About 53,000 workers could strike at The MGM Grand, Caesar’s Palace and the Wynn/Encore if no deal is reached.
Union democracy

CWA Local 7901 placed in trusteeship by national union

The union has suffered from significant internal turmoil in recent years.
Uncategorized

City unions to Vancouver: self-insured workers comp isn’t working for workers

A group of 10 unions say the City of Vancouver's self-insured program has too often denied injured workers’ claims.
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