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International
SEIU and AFT join call for cease-fire in Gaza
SEIU and American Federation of Teachers became the fourth and fifth national unions in the United States to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Union Organizing
Buffalo baristas form first Starbucks store union
Thirty down, 235,000 to go. On Dec. 9, mail ballots showed that workers at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York voted 19 to 8 to unionize.
Trade
Trump’s new NAFTA labor rules to be tested
Better than NAFTA, but how real are the labor rights provisions that were added to Trump's trade treaty with Mexico and Canada? A new filing by the national AFL-CIO aims to find out.
In Memoriam
John Sweeney, 1934-2021
Former national AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, died Feb. 1 at age 86.
Workers Rights
The Fight for $15: The Right Wage for a Working America
An architect of Seattle's $15 minimum wage has written a book about the surging 15 movement.
Workers Rights
You take one of us on, you take all of us on
Portland Jobs With Justice carried out a three-hour-long protest June 17, including a rally outside City Hall calling for a $15 minimum wage, a...
Workers Rights
Port of Portland passes new ‘social equity’ policy
New airline service contractors will have to hire 80% of their workers from the previous contractor
Workers Rights
Airlines threaten to sue over modest labor reforms at PDX
Port of Portland proposal would require $13 total hourly compensation in future airport service contracts
Workers Rights
PDX: a highly desirable workplace, for managers
Port of Portland hires a $197-an-hour consultant to develop its policy to help low-wage workers
Oregon
Labor-backed alliance to push bold agenda in the state capitol
2015 could be a breakthrough year for pro-worker legislation
Workers Rights
Port of Portland will consider a “social equity” policy for airport workers
PDX lags behind other West Coast airports in raising standards for low-wage service workers
Politics
‘Right-to-work’ initiative dropped
Sponsors of two anti-union initiative petitions — including a so-called right-to-work measure for public employees — have agreed to withdraw their measures aimed at...
National
U.S. Supreme Court hears challenge to union neutrality agreements
Several justices grill a lawyer from an anti-union group
National
After years of delay, Obama DOL says home care workers will get minimum wage, overtime
A decades-old exclusion ends for nearly 2 million workers.
National
We are the 99 percent: Unions get behind the Occupy movement
Unions line up in support of Occupy Wall Street as the movement explodes.
Portland
Pro-union, pro-choice: Workers unionize at Planned Parenthood
Workers at Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette voted 97 to 43 SEIU Local 49.
Workers Rights
More workers fired for Facebook postings
A Frito-Lay worker is fired after complaining about a supervisor on Facebook.
Portland
Portland bus brigade travels to rallies at 8 worksites
With 8+ union contracts expiring June 30, activists thought, “Why not get all the unions together?”
Oregon/Washington
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.
National
Apollo Alliance merges into BlueGreen
Two labor-environmental coalitions have merged as of July 1. The Apollo Alliance, launched in 2003 as a coalition of environmental, labor, business and community leaders, is now a project of the BlueGreen Alliance.
