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Will Cargill grain terminal’s $100M expansion hire local union labor or low-wage out-of-town crews?

Coquille Valley Hospital’s new facility was constructed under a union project labor agreement

Four months after a $50 billion dividend, Pacific Power cuts workers, some of whom had moved to take the job.

Unions pledge support for the project, and its developer pledges to build union.

Two union training centers partner with high schools to revitalize career and technical education

Looking to avert cuts in roads and parks, union finds $120 million in an obscure City fund.

Hundreds of non-local construction workers are brought in to work on the Vancouver waterfront.

TriMet says the $1.5 billion project will create up to 14,500 jobs by its September 2015 finish.

Laborers Local 483 members turn out for a protest near Legacy hospital.

The contract for a new police station went to an out-of-state, nonunion electrical contractor.

The St. Johns facility was the last Oregon manufacturer of cans.

The short-lived, briefly-union bar closed its doors Oct. 29.

It seems the union workforce at Portland’s former Freightliner truck plant is competitive after all.

Kaiser's new hospital in Hillsboro is being constructed all-union, and will operate union too.

Two bills signed March 24 will extend unemployment benefits to Oregonians still looking for work.

Plumbers and Fitters Local 290 has opened its training center to students from the Tigard-Tualatin School District.

Oregon AFL-CIO sponsored a March 7 “Jobs Rally” on the Oregon Capitol steps

Most of those let go were members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555.

A Workers’ Rights Board panel recommended the U.S. Postal Service hire more letter carriers and clerks.

AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust is investing $22 million to construct a building adjacent to Coquille Valley Hospital.