Northwest Labor Press

The council, which represents 27 construction union locals and about 20,000 Portland-area union members, voted on the endorsement Feb. 22.

Delegates to the Northwest Oregon Labor Council voted to endorse Jessica Vega Pederson for Multnomah County Chair at their Feb. 28 meeting.

Since 2020, redistricting has made Oregon’s 5th Congressional District more favorable terrain for progressives.

The endorsements were decided by hundreds of delegates at a two-day virtual convention of the union’s political action committee.

The year 2021 had twice as many large work stoppages as 2020, but still far fewer than in the teachers-union-led strike surge of 2018-2019.

What caused labor’s decline, and is key to its revival? No answer has been more persuasive than the one I got from a guy named Joe in 2011.

After 16 months of negotiating, employees of the Mid-Columbia Center for Living will see pay increases totaling 13% over the next three years.

Multnomah County has recognized the decision of a group of 30 Health Department pharmacists to join AFSCME Local 88.

A union campaign by ILWU at the Longview paper mill launched in late November but fell short in ballots counted Feb. 22.

Oregon’s proposed rules protecting workers exposed to extreme heat and wildfire smoke could be the strongest in the country.