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Graham Trainor
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This strike is so much bigger than one bakery

Sep 20, 2021

Workers are fed up, and they are doing something about it: Strikes, shop floor actions, civil disobedience, and work stoppages.

Politics

Labor gets behind Hartmeier-Prigg for Beaverton City Council

Sep 20, 2021

Ballots are due by Tuesday, Sept. 21. 

Worker safety

Unions contend with vaccine mandates

Sep 20, 2021

Unions are encouraging members to get vaccinated, but are also trying to protect the rights and jobs of workers who haven’t been vaccinated.

Collective Bargaining

Nationwide Nabisco strike intensifies

Sep 1, 2021

‘No contract, no snacks’ Nabisco strikers are saying—their livelihoods on the line in a nationwide struggle against corporate greed.

Collective Bargaining

“They don’t know their workers”

Sep 1, 2021

David Woods is the lead union negotiator trying to bargain a new contract at Nabisco. We spoke with him by phone Aug. 26.

Union Organizing

Vancouver’s daily newspaper moves to get rid of its union

Sep 1, 2021

After 21 months of supposed negotiations, The Columbian is asking the National Labor Relations Board to hold a new union election. 

Union Democracy

Liz Shuler elected AFL-CIO president

Sep 1, 2021

She succeeds Rich Trumka, who died Aug. 5. Shuler, AFL-CIO secretary treasurer since 2009, is the first woman to hold the office of president.

Worker safety

Construction industry confronts suicide in the ranks

Sep 1, 2021

Construction workers commit suicide at three times the national average. More die by suicide than job site injuries or accidents.

Green Jobs

Daimler: The future of Freightliner is electric

Sep 1, 2021

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley got a look at Daimler’s new electric trucks on a visit to a Swan Island electric fueling station .

Retirement

Union group warns of serious flaws in federal pension rescue program

Sep 1, 2021

Pension plans that cut retiree benefits to restore solvency would face the toughest dilemma under the pension rescue rules announced July 9.

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