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Union pension funds finance new Portland office building

The nine-story Pearl West project will be LEED Silver rated.

Ben Franklin would be rolling in his grave

The union boycott of Staples is growing, in protest of postal privatization.

Staples boycott grows

Unions boycott Staples after it contracts with USPS to staff mini-post offices in stores.

Reinvigorating Portland’s shipyard: Vigor’s massive new dry dock could mean hundreds of jobs

13 years after selling America’s largest floating dry dock, Vigor bringing one back to Portland

Layoffs at Portland Public Schools?

AFT sounds the alarm about possible pink slips for classroom assistants

Oregon Iron Works to merge with Vigor Industrial

Union leaders are optimistic about prospects for job growth

Postal service tries to ditch door delivery in Portland

USPS managers are soliciting property owners to convert from at-the-door to “cluster box” delivery

Women in Trades Career Fair

Over 2,000 women and teenagers learned about careers in construction at the annual fair.

Portland’s new mass transit bridge is union-built

Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People

Union pension funds create union jobs in Portland

AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust is investing in a $43.2 million mixed-use residential building

Union investment brings new development, jobs to Portland

The $43.2 million six-story apartment complex will be built 100 percent union

Anti- high-capacity transit measure passes in Tigard

Every year from now on, Tigard must send a letter opposed to any rail or bus project that displaces roads

Parkrose School Board nixes plan to contract out school buses

An energetic five-month campaign by OSEA saves school bus driver jobs

After change of heart, Bernard lets union-represented AMR keep Clackamas County ambulance contract

Teamsters think it was Bernard who put the existing contract out for competition.

OSEA battles Parkrose plan to outsource school bus service

The school board will vote Feb. 24 on whether to contract out.

Kitzhaber sets March deadline to decide future of I-5 bridge

Building trades council is urging support for bridge.

Port of Portland drops plan to develop West Hayden Island

Union leaders angered over loss of industrial land

Machinists to vote on second Boeing offer

The Puget Sound Machinists District is urging members to reject the concessionary offer

Seven protesters arrested at Springfield postal facility

The mail processing plant is slated for closure

OFNHP protests elimination of perio-hygienist classification

The 17 workers in that classification do the same work, for less pay