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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

Convention Center hotel closer to breaking ground

Hyatt would be neutral toward hotel workers unionizing.

Unions turn out to support coal export terminal in Longview

At a public hearing, 2,000 attend: unionists for the jobs, and environmentalists against the coal

Columbia River Crossing showing signs of life

Officials are still looking into the financially viability of an “Oregon only” project.

Coalition calls for scaled-down phased-in I-5 bridge over the Columbia

Three pages worth of names sign a letter calling for "phased option"

Planned occupation of NW Portland’s main post office thwarted

Department of Homeland Security police stood in a post office entrance.

All signs point to a union-built convention center hotel

Metro's "statement of principles" asks the developer to use union workers

Columbia River Crossing: Dead in the water

The I-5 bridge project, along with promised construction jobs, ran aground in the Washington Senate.

Allen Brennan joins AFL-CIO to help laid-off workers

He'll be kept busy by a series of layoffs this summer.

Protesters disrupt airport mail facility in Portland

Morning mail runs were blocked in a protest against privatization

Union-rebuilt Edith Green federal building: A model green remodel

The 18-story 1974 structure was stripped to its girders and rebuilt as a model of sustainability.

Kinder Morgan scraps plans for coal export plant at Port Westward

The turning point was PGE's rejection, citing potential coal dust impact on its natural gas plants