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Linda Baker

Homeowners, don’t despair: You CAN find union contractors

Quality work – and family-sustaining benefits – set union contractors apart.

WHY SHE LEFT

Nurses are burned out and quitting the profession like never before. One psychiatric nurse shares why she quit her job at Unity.

Union: How to turn a job into a career 

Workers who help homeless addicts can be one mishap away from homelessness themselves. Their union gives hope it can be a longterm calling.

The job: Put an end to homelessness

Katie DeSantis was homeless for 20 years. Then she secured stable housing, earned a degree, and began working for homeless service agencies.

New CEO at Central City Concern decides to hit reset with union

What if the Portland-based homeless service non-profit thought of Oregon AFSCME as its most important ally?

At work, finding homes for the homeless

Formerly homeless herself, AFSCME Local 88 member Salma Azizza today works to get unsheltered people into housing and get the help they need.

Electric big rigs are now union-made in Portland

Daimler started producing the long-awaited eCascadia this summer, and plans to start deliveries of the all-electric big rig later this year.

How Starbucks is turning a new generation on to unionism

Starbucks employees in Portland are part of a burgeoning nationwide store-by-store union campaign led by young frontline workers.