Cameron Crowell, Author at NW Labor Press

Cameron Crowell

Cameron Crowell is a writer and reporter based in Portland. See more of his work at his blog (In)Action — inaction.substack.com.

Union Organizing

IATSE Local 28 says concert production company Monqui Presents chilled union support when it fired two union supporters.

Union Organizing

It’s the fifth win in the IWW’s Peet’s Labor Union effort, after four coffee shops unionized in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Union Organizing

The stagehands are employees of concert promoter Monqui Presents, which is a major force in the Pacific Northwest music industry.

Collective bargaining

As bargaining drags into its 20th month, the union has no choice but to escalate.

Workers Rights

The owners of Magic Tavern are thumbing their noses at U.S. labor law. Strippers, and the NLRB, are not amused.

Jobs

The owner stopped paying bills, leaving 16 teachers without final paychecks and around 50 families scrambling to find childcare.

Union Organizing

The union vote among amusement ride operators was 4 to 26, and less than half of the 66 workers who were eligible to vote cast ballots.

Collective bargaining

The union and New Seasons have met 21 times since January 2023 to negotiate and are still without a first collective bargaining agreement.

People

Seattle-based NLRB agent Janet Little will be stepping in to handle the management duties and correspondence.

Collective bargaining

The new three-year agreement raises wages and modifies an attendance policy workers felt was unnecessarily harsh.