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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 Organizing

Union drive launches at New Seasons

Two weeks after a group of New Seasons workers publicly announced a union campaign, the company hasn't yet responded to their appeal for neutrality.
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.
Workers Rights

Fair Work Week: Oregon will be the first state to curb schedule abuses

A new law will give retail, hospitality and food service workers predictable schedules — and extra pay when schedules change at the last minute.
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?
Union Organizing

UFCW Local 555: Safeway/Albertsons organizing drive brings in 4,400 new members

Safeway and Albertsons agreed to remain neutral, giving union organizers access to employees in the break room.
Politics

Labor weighs in on May school board and bond elections

Most of the endorsements are for school boards and school bond measures.
In Memoriam

Lon Imel, 1929-2017

Imel, a unionist since 1951, headed the NW Oregon Labor Council and served as labor liaison for Congressmembers Les AuCoin and Elizabeth Furse.
People

PERSONNEL

Oregon governor populates boards with labor figures; D Pei Wu departs Portland JwJ
Oregon

At the Oregon Legislature: A Robust Labor Agenda

Labor muscle helped elect many of Oregon’s legislators. Now Oregon unions are mobilizing behind an agenda of fair taxes, good jobs, and expanded protections for workers rights. Here are some recent highlights.
Building our communities

House fire claims UFCW Local 555 member and injures member of Cement Masons Local 555

A fund has been set up to help the family.
Politics

To counter big-money politics, Portland City Council votes for public campaign finance

Starting in 2020, the system will match small donors so candidates can focus on regular voters, not big donors.
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