Northwest Labor Press

Affiliate CWA opposed the merger but changed its stance in June 2022 after Microsoft signed a union neutrality pledge.

Jordan Fosdick, a service technician at the natural gas utility, will represent nearly 600 members of OPEIU Local 11.

Mt. Hood Community College now offers associates degrees to journeymen sheet metal workers.

A union crane operator earns a police commendation for keeping cool when it mattered.

Two unions representing nearly 30,000 Oregon state workers reached agreements that would provide a cumulative 13% raise over two years.

Photojournalists and editors say the station’s corporate owner is trying to undo hard-won agreements over staffing and union jurisdiction.

Joint mediation with Providence Portland, Providence Seaside, and Providence Home Health and Hospice is scheduled for Aug. 9.

In year one, journeymen will make $42.86 an hour plus $19.38 in benefits for a total compensation package of $62.24 an hour.

The master agreement with signatory contractors expired June 30, and bargaining has reached impasse. Members will take a strike vote Aug. 5.

This is proving to be one of the most consequential summers of labor action, with hundreds of thousands on strike or near striking.