Northwest Labor Press

The uprising began Feb. 11 when Republican Scott Walker proposed a law to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights.

Most of those let go were members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555.

A Workers’ Rights Board panel recommended the U.S. Postal Service hire more letter carriers and clerks.

Building trades unions are miffed that the Metro Council didn’t appoint Bob Shiprack to a vacant seat in District 6.

A dozen plus Oregon labor leaders attended President Barack Obama’s Feb. 18 “winning the future” speech at Intel Corp. in Hillsboro.

Outside President Obama’s Feb. 18 visit to Intel, activists picketed to remind him of his pledge to halt NAFTA-style trade treaties.

At a pair of rallies Feb. 25 and 26 in Portland and Salem, Oregonians showed solidarity with Midwest public workers.

A new crop of Republican governors has declared war on unions, provoking the biggest showdown since Reagan fired air traffic controllers in 1981.

Support and maintenance workers at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend voted 267 to 261 to unionize.

Two labor groups are calling for a boycott of The Columbian, the Vancouver daily newspaper.