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Don McIntosh

Editor Don McIntosh has been with the Northwest Labor Press since 1998. Born in Baltimore, he moved to Portland in 1985, and first practiced journalism at the Daily Vanguard, Portland State University's student newspaper. After earning a bachelor's in history, he served as an underground union organizer (salt) with Teamsters Local 174 in Seattle. Back in Portland, he wrote for the Portland Business Journal and Willamette Week and was editor of the Portland Alliance, a monthly community newspaper.
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Collective bargaining

Boeing strike continues 

Roughly 33,000 Machinists union members are nearing the fourth week of a historic strike at Boeing, with no obvious end in sight.
Analysis

FTC takes on hedge fund landlords

Would-be homebuyers are increasingly losing bidding wars to large investors. Senator Jeff Merkley wants to rein in hedge fund landlords.
Collective bargaining

Longshore strike shuts down East Coast ports

It’s the first strike since 1977 for members of the ILA. They earn far less than members of the West Coast longshore union ILWU.
Oregon

Iron Workers Local 29 honors Taylor, Grayber

For their work on union jobs legislation, the legislative committee chairs each got a plaque and a spud wrench.
Collective bargaining

Machinists strike begins at Boeing

Boeing workers had a pension before 2016. They want it back.
Jobs

Kroger/Albertsons merger on trial

Kroger and Albertsons are the big fish that swallowed up almost all other grocery competitors. Now Kroger proposes to swallow Albertsons.
Jobs

Stores Kroger and Albertsons plan to unload

Is your local grocery store one of the ones Kroger wants to sell to wholesaler C&S if the merger goes through? Check out the complete list.
Collective bargaining

UFCW Local 555 strikes Portland-area Fred Meyer stores

The union is now calling on customers to take part in a general boycott of Fred Meyer.
Union Organizing

Boilermakers union blitz at Gunderson

Gunderson workers were represented by Boilermakers and other unions until the 1980s. Today, wages and benefits lag behind the union standard.
Collective bargaining

Northwest ironworkers ratify contract — on their third vote

The agreement raises compensation $16 over four years for more than 5,000 members of Ironworkers locals in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Union Organizing

Do Good Multnomah agrees to recognize union for its 270 workers

They join a union that also represents workers at homeless service providers Central City Concern, Transition Projects, and Home Forward. 
Union Organizing

More than 360 workers join existing union at Central City Concern

The Sept. 12 union vote doubles the number of workers represented by AFSCME Local 88 at the homeless service nonprofit.
Politics

Laborers 737 pulls its backing of Rubio for Portland mayor

The union's political director says her record of unpaid parking tickets and other infractions was ‘beyond the pale.’
Labor History

Painters Local 10 is turning 125

It began in 1899, when 44 painters and wallpaper hangers met at the Portland hall of a fraternal order called the Improved Order of Red Men.
Culture

UA Local 290 will have a new hall in Vancouver

The local is spending $8.6 million to purchase and remodel the 3-acre property. Nearly 1,000 of Local 290’s 5,100 members live in Washington.
Analysis

Gallup: 70% approve of unions

And respondents who say they disapprove of unions is down to 23%, the lowest since 1967.
Collective bargaining

UFCW 555 on strike at Fred Meyer (and now opposes the merger) 

Approximately 4,500 grocery and meat workers in the Portland area are on strike through Labor Day weekend.
Jobs

PDX Next

Union labor delivered a project that will solidify Portland International Airport's renown as America’s best.  
Union democracy

WSLC meets in Wenatchee

Delegates representing hundreds of affiliated unions gathered July 16-18 to set policy and recognize outstanding contributions.
Collective bargaining

Hours before researcher strike, OHSU agrees to give raises

OHSU had said it would pay workers only the minimum salary set by the National Institutes of Health. When a strike neared, they reconsidered.

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