September 20, 2024 issue

Machinists strike begins at Boeing

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

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.

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.

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.

Portland-wide strike shuts 10 New Seasons stores for a day

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.’

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.

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.

Gallup: 70% approve of unions

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