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Analysis
2024: The rest of the story
We’ve reported over 300 stories in 2024. At year's end, we update readers about what happened since we published some of those stories.Â
Union Organizing
Teamsters pause funeral home union campaign but expect to re-file
The campaign aims to unionize local workers at the largest provider of funeral and cemetery services in North America.
Union Organizing
Funeral home chain could go union
Teamsters Local 305 has launched a union campaign for undertakers employed by Service Corporation International in Oregon and Washington.
Collective bargaining
Trades workers ratify contract at Home Forward
The three-year contract covers 56 trades workers. It raises starting pay $9 an hour on average and adds new safety provisions.Â
Union Organizing
Portland Ridwell workers ask for union election with Teamsters Local 305
Ridwell provides curbside collection of hard to recycle items like batteries, plastic clamshell containers, lightbulbs, and more.
Collective bargaining
Daimler Machinists: $4 raise plus essential worker bonus
Four unions at the Portland truck plant ratified new five-year agreements that raise wages $4, and hold the line on health insurance costs.
Jobs
COVID-19 prevention leads Daimler to close Portland truck plant
The closure impacts roughly 700 members of four unions, and comes amid concerns that workers can't all maintain six feet distance.
Jobs
Daimler’s Portland truck plant will soon be hiring
Coming in March: Union jobs with family wages and benefits.
Retirement
Back to work: Daimler truck plant opens up for a visit from retirees
A new plant manager welcomes retirees back to see their old workplace and coworkers.
Collective bargaining
DEAL: Daimler and unions reach agreement on a new 5-year contract at the Portland truck plant
Wages will rise by $3.25 an hour for the plant's 500+ workers.
Jobs
Uber unleashed
Portland sets up "separate but unequal" system for taxis to compete at a disadvantage with Uber
Building our communities
Teach a kid to fish …
Union volunteers are a big part of the annual Klineline Kids Fish-In in Vancouver, Washington
Collective bargaining
Daimler deploys strikebreakers at Portland truck plant
A fast-moving convoy of vans and SUVs nearly ran over one picketing union member
Collective bargaining
Machinists, Painters strike Daimler Trucks
Workers have been falling behind economically while the company prospers
Jobs
Daimler Trucks to lay off 250 union workers at Swan Island plant
The Portland maker of heavy-duty Western Star trucks currently has 930 union workers.
Portland
Daimler Portland adds union jobs
It seems the union workforce at Portland’s former Freightliner truck plant is competitive after all.
Workers Rights
More workers fired for Facebook postings
A Frito-Lay worker is fired after complaining about a supervisor on Facebook.
Workers Rights
Portland cabbies stage wildcat strike at Broadway Cab
In a series of job actions, over 100 Broadway Cab drivers oppose a money grab by the company.
