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

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

AFT sounds the alarm about possible pink slips for classroom assistants

Union leaders are optimistic about prospects for job growth

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

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

Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People

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

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

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

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

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

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

Building trades council is urging support for bridge.

Union leaders angered over loss of industrial land

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

The mail processing plant is slated for closure

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

Hyatt would be neutral toward hotel workers unionizing.

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