Northwest Labor Press

Portland-area transit workers will get raises at the end of this year and next, but otherwise their union contract will remain unchanged.

Members of the Oregon Nurses Association at Providence hospitals in Portland and Milwaukie approved two-year contracts with their employer.

Dave Jacobsen has been elected president of IBEW Local 48 and Garth Bachman was reelected as business manager.

AFSCME and Oregon Health and Science University management have reached several tentative agreements, but have not settled on wage increases.

The crash is the latest evidence for what union-represented paramedics have described as growing public hostility toward ambulance workers.

At Oregon’s Lines for Life, newly unionized call-takers expect a jump in call volume as the program rolls out.

Oregon Tradeswomen, the nonprofit that supports women entering the building trades, received $150,000 in grant funding from Google.

Workers at a chain of four child development centers in Portland voted by a three-to-one margin to unionize with ILWU Local 5.

The Oregon Nurses Association recently filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board to represent workers at two Oregon hospitals.

After 17 weeks of bargaining and some tentative agreements, economics are a key sticking point between OHSU and AFSCME.