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UA Local 290

Collective bargaining

Plumbers & Fitters #290 ratifies six-year contract

Bargaining took less than 3 hours, and the result is an increase of $16.03 over six years.
Culture

Troublemakers take over Local 290 hall

Over 200 rank-and-file union activists took part in Portland’s third biennial Labor Notes “Troublemakers School.”
Trade

Rank-and-file union members: “It’s up to you and me, STOP the TPP”

Farmers markets are free trade. Corporate trade deals like the TPP, not so much.
Worker safety

Lead crisis in schools: Could underfunding of maintenance be the culprit?

Decades of cuts have made insufficient maintenance the new normal.
In Memoriam

William James “Billy” McNicholas, 1926- 2015

The longtime Plumbers union officer was an Irish tenor and a WWII-era vet.
Workers Rights

Strikes were up in 2011, but still extremely rare

The Verizon and NFL strikes were the year's biggest.
Portland

Military veterans deployed to Local 290 steamfitters apprenticeship

In the Veterans In Piping program, 250 veterans around the U.S. are training to be steamfitters.
Collective bargaining

Plumbers and Fitters Local 290 ratifies new three-year contract

A new three-year contract provides for increases of $1.75, $2, and $2.25.
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