November 2023 - nwLaborPress

It’s a fight that teachers say has been brewing a long time.

Parents are joining Portland teachers on strike picket lines throughout the district — because they support what teachers are fighting for.

Members of IBEW Local 48 ratified three agreements in the last month that cover nearly all of the union’s 6,000 members.

The grocery union wants repeal of self-service gas, union neutrality at cannabis businesses, and legislative and hospital reforms.

The Southwest Washington Central Labor Council saw three of its four endorsed candidates win in Washington’s Nov. 7 election.

Wearing a red UAW Local 1268 T-shirt, Joe Biden celebrated UAW’s massive strike victory Nov. 9 with a crowd of UAW members in Illinois.

The bargaining unit covers all legislative assistants supporting elected officials in the Oregon Legislature, between 90 and 180 workers.

One day before a planned strike, SEIU Local 1199NW reached a tentative agreement for a local add-on to Kaiser Permanente’s national contract.

About 400 members of Yamhill County Employees Association returned to work with a tentative agreement Nov. 8 after a five-day strike.

Screen actors won the right to streaming residuals, and safeguards against abuse of their images through AI.