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People

Northwest Labor Press staff changes

Northwest Labor Press office manager Cheri Rice is retiring after 20 years; succeeding her is Jill Lukens. Both have long connections to local unionism.
Collective bargaining

Union bargaining drags on at Fred Meyer and Safeway

Patience is running out, says the union in an online ad campaign.
Workers Rights

Union coalition says it’s time to restore legal rights for workers and consumers

Companies are increasingly insisting that workers and consumers waive their legal rights through arbitration clauses.
Collective bargaining

Bargaining under way for 18,000 Oregon grocery workers

UFCW Local 555's “Unity Negotiations” will set the terms for workers at Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertsons and more.
National

Missouri voters trounce ‘right-to-work’

The anti-union law went down by more than 2-1. Oregon unionists, acting in solidarity, were there to lend a hand.
Workers Rights

Portland City Council approves resolution on the rights of Uber drivers

A city bureau has six months to come up with a proposal for a City oversight body focused on wages, dispute resolution, and other issues.
People

Sam Gillispie signs out

Gillispie, 69, is retiring after a 43-year career in the union movement working for AFSCME and UFCW Local 555.
Union democracy

Kaiser Permanente union coalition splits

The day before bargaining was to begin, unions representing 45,000 members left the coalition, while unions representing 70,700 members remain.
Politics

A union-backed challenge to Oregon’s Greg Walden

Two years ago, almost no one wanted to run against the powerful Republican Congressman. This year, half a dozen Democrats are competing for the nomination. UFCW is getting behind a former union maritime worker.
Union Organizing

New Seasons deploys the same union-busters that Trump Las Vegas hotel used

After a second pro-union worker is fired, union supporters question the grocer’s ‘B Corp’ status.
Buying Union

Union-made gift ideas

Buying any gifts this holiday season? If you buy union, you help keep good jobs in the community, and vote with your dollars for enterprises that pay your fellow workers a living wage with benefits.
Union Organizing

New Seasons Market rebuffs call for meeting with union

UFCW Local 555 says the nonunion grocer has already fired one union supporter.
Union democracy

Clay, Anderson, re-elected to lead United Food and Commercial Workers

Members of the state's largest private sector union favored the incumbents by a 3-to-1 margin.
Collective bargaining

Still no DCTU deal at City of Portland

The City union coalition is calling for 2 percent raises plus cost-of-living adjustments.
Politics

Labor highlights from the 2017 Oregon Legislature

Lawmakers passed landmark labor laws, but dropped the ball on tax fairness and housing.
Health Care

Kaiser nurses issue warning: Short staffing could diminish patient care

Nurse union members, frustrated with slow progress on staffing committees, rally outside Kaiser's Northwest headquarters.
Oregon

Labor may go to the Oregon ballot on tax reform and workers rights

Oregon’s biggest unions are laying the groundwork for initiatives on the 2018 ballot — in case this year's Democratic-led Oregon Legislature doesn’t deliver.
Multnomah County

Labor Council takes stand against soda tax initiative

The Labor Council is discouraging union members from signing the initiative petitions.
Politics

May primary election results for Northwest Oregon

Passage of two big bonds is good news for local building trades unions
Oregon

At the Oregon Legislature: Labor’s agenda inches forward

Will the Oregon Legislature ban anti-union ‘right-to-work’ ordinances?
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