PERSONNEL REPORT Jun 30, 2021 Sherman Henry and Lina Stepick leave LERC, ONA’s director departs, and Mayor Wheeler reappoints Willy Myers to Prosper Portland.
Doctor Organizer: Joe Crane Jun 30, 2021 In 2009, Joe Crane was working graveyard on the Portland Frito-Lay assembly line. Today he’s national organizing director at a doctors union.
Painters pickets continue Jun 17, 2021 The pickets are protesting contractors’ failure to provide information that would justify their refusal to offer more than a 25¢ raise.
Homeless nonprofit. Union-buster. Jun 16, 2021 The publicly funded homeless nonprofit Central City Concern just beat back a union campaign. Multnomah County Commissioners are concerned.
Freightliner comes home Jun 16, 2021 Daimler will make its next-generation electric Freightliner trucks in Portland, where Freightliner began … and raise starting pay $4 an hour.
Wages rise $4.96 an hour in new Roofers contract Jun 16, 2021 Journeyman roofers in Local 49 will earn a $37.73 wage as of July 1, plus $19.23 in fringe benefits like health and pension.
Serious outbreak of wage increases across nursing home industry Jun 16, 2021 Though their contracts aren’t up til September, all five unionized nursing home chains have agreed to raise CNA starting wages to $18+.
Hillsboro clinic the latest to unionize with AFSCME Jun 16, 2021 A recent vote adds 61 workers at Lifeworks NW’ Hawthorn Clinic to Oregon AFSCME, part of a wave of union organizing in behavioral health.
‘Ellensburg 6’ get raises Jun 16, 2021 The City’s proposed raise jumped from 1% to 9% after public protests and support from hundreds of locals and IBEW members in the region.
Factory owner hires hit man in plot to take out union representative Jun 16, 2021 CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: The owner worried that the union activist would destroy the “family spirit” at the company.
