In this age of mergers, utility deregulation and downsizing, Portland-based Office and Professional Employees Local 11 has been able to guarantee a no-layoff provision in its last three contracts for nearly 1,000 employees at Northwest Natural Gas.
Some 4,500 Portland area grocery, deli and bakery clerks and meatcutters represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 ratified new three-year collective bargaining agreements last month by a majority of 95 percent.
A proposed labor-management partnership that could reshape health maintenance organization patient care standards and workplace environments has been proposed by the national AFL-CIO and Kaiser Permanente.
