Northwest Labor Press

Strippers at Magic Tavern voted 16-0 to unionize with the Actors’ Equity Association, which represents stage actors and performers.

The workers voted 10-0 to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 in a Sept. 1 vote held in the employee break room.

Among young people, approval of labor unions is at 88%. And support for strikes is at 90%.

Housing Bureau employee Chris Flanary, a member of AFSCME Local 189, is one of the first to file for the all-new Portland City Council.

With all new leadership and an $825 million strike fund, the union is determined to reverse past concessions.

Strikes are way up. Union approval is at a 57-year high. And yet as a percent of the workforce unions are at the lowest level since the ’20s.

If the public teaching hospital buys the private health system, it would eclipse Intel as the largest metro-area employer.

A new report paid for by the district confirms what union tradespeople who maintain schools have been saying for years.

Two of the three bargaining units that held a five-day strike in June now have significant pay raises, more time off, and safer staffing.

Collective Bargaining

Around 40 workers at the Burgerville near the Oregon Convention Center struck July 28-29 after negotiations with company leaders stagnated.