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Despite offers of union concessions, Sealy will close its Portland plant in March and lay off 128.

Building trades and the Oregon AFL-CIO support the tax method freeze for big companies.

Hostess Brands goes out blaming unions for its demise

Postal elves plastered Portland's main post office with protest signs Nov. 30.

Veterans are a fifth of the postal workforce, but USPS hasn't made permanent hires for 5 years.

Oregon east of the Cascades is becoming one of the world’s prime locations for data centers.

Voters would first have to approve allowing a private casino just east of Portland.

Oregon unions will train state prison inmates, and build shelters for homeless.

Union officials say JH Kelly will do 85 percent of the work on a $50 million grain silo expansion.

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.