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People
Portland Bakery Union member Shad Clark made international VP for Western Region
The former Local 114 business agent has a long history as a union worker and activist.
Collective bargaining
Nabisco union standoff leads to wave of retirements
Representatives of Mondelēz unions from around the world will meet in Chicago Sept. 20-21.
Buying Union
Laid-off Nabisco workers travel the country to boycott Mexican-made Oreos
In Portland, a laid-off Chicago worker delivers a message: The fight is bigger than Mondelēz
Collective bargaining
Union standoff widens at Nabisco
BCTGM says Mondelēz’ Mexican workers are represented by a bogus company-dominated union.
Buying Union
Laid-off Nabisco workers push Mexican Oreo boycott
Boycott education teams of laid-off workers will travel the country starting in the Chicago area.
Union Organizing
Union campaign crushed at Portland Specialty Baking
In three weeks, union support went from 61 percent to 23 percent. Here's what happened.
Buying Union
How to tell if your Oreo Is union-made
An inkstamp on each package tells you where it was made — if you know what to look for.
People
BCTGM International taps Bakers Local 114 rep Shad Clark
Darren Hamann will replace Clark at Local 114
Politics
Oregon Legislative session 2011 a mixed bag for labor
Oregon lawmakers wrapped up the 2011 Legislative session June 30. If there was anything memorable in it for working people, it was that lawmakers finally cut corporate tax breaks down to size … except when they were giving out new ones. It was also the year that the Oregon Legislature gave state agencies a new aspirational goal: Lay off managers, not just front-line state employees. In a state with 9.6 percent unemployment, the closest lawmakers got to passing a jobs bill was a pilot project that will employ some workers on energy efficiency retrofits of public schools, or maybe the new law removing procedural roadblocks to pipelines and other “linear” construction projects.
