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Strike Threat Wins in Confrontation over Remote Work 2024-03-18 [Labour Notes]

Oregon Public Broadcasting workers join union 2024-03-17 [KLCC]

The Fight Against Racism, The UPS Contract &Trump With IBT162 UPS Retired Teamster Howard Williamson For more info 2024-03-14 [LVP]

A victory for the remote work in the Portland Community College 2024-03-14 [Labornotes]

SEIU 503 higher education workers reach tentative agreement with university management 2024-02-29 [KTVL]

Streak of union wins at Legacy 2024-02-20 [Northwest Labor Press]

Northwest Workers Justice Project recognizes union 2024-02-20 [Northwest Labor Press]

Bike mechanics get union contract 2024-02-20 [Northwest Labor Press]

The Teamsters, Trump, Racism, Homophobia & Fascism With IBT 162 Tony Cochran A UPS Worker For more info 2024-02-16 [LVP]

Arrest warrant issued for contractor who failed to pay for benefits 2024-01-09 [NW Labor Press]

Legacy Health employees are unionizing at blinding speed 2023-12-13 [The Lund Report]

Drivers and Warehouse Workers Secure Representation with Local 305 2023-12-09 [Teamsters]

Portland Teachers End Strike After Winning Higher Wages and Smaller Class Sizes 2023-11-28 [Democracy Now]

Staff at 10 Legacy Women’s Health Clinics Announce Intent to Unionize 2023-11-14 [Oregon Business]

University of Oregon student workers form new labor union 2023-11-14 [OPB]

Historic Portland teachers strike, negotiations continue into long weekend 2023-11-11 [KPTV]

Portland teachers are on strike, closing OR’s largest school system 2023-11-01 [NYTimes]

State sees record-high unionization 2023-10-08 [OPR]

Labor Day weekend draws Portland workers out in droves to the picket lines 2023-09-04 [KGW8]

Powell's Books will close Monday as employees go on strike 2023-09-03 [KGW8]

Powell’s Books workers to strike on Labor Day 2023-09-03 [OPB]

‘No one listened’: Legacy workers demand safety upgrades 2023-07-30 [KOIN]

They put food on our tables but live in the shadows. This man is fighting to be seen 2023-07-30 [OPB]

Handcuffs to Hardhats 2023-07-22 [NW Labor Press]

Union nurse appointed to number two spot in Oregon AFL-CIO 2023-07-07 [NW Labor Press]

Nearly 1,800 Providence nurses, clinicians on strike, picketing 3 Oregon locations starting Monday 2023-06-19 [KATU]

Labor trouble at Port of Oakland, concerns of strike For more info 2023-06-10 [KTVU]

Strippers aim to unionize at Portland club: ‘We want to be able to go and do our jobs’ 2023-06-09 [The Oregonian]

Despite fierce pushback, an Oregon union is proceeding in its efforts to recall an influential Democrat 2023-06-07 [OPB]

Portland City Employees Form New Workers Union 2023-06-07 [The Mercury]

Victims of deadly Oregon highway crash were farmworkers, union says 2023-05-21 [The National Post]

OR workers making minimum wage will get 70-cent raise per hour starting July 1 2023-04-15 [KATU]

Univ OR undergraduate workers apply to form union 2023-04-15 [KLCC]

Oregon to stop paying remote workers to travel to their offices 2023-04-05 [Statesman Journal]

Student workers at the University of Oregon are trying to form a union 2023-01-15 [KCBY]

Kaiser workers picket over staffing levels 2023-01-15 [KATU]

Portland laborers closer to strike 2023-01-05 [NW Labor Press]

Lured with false promises of high pay and decent labor conditions, immigrants are held against their will by outlaw farmers who withhold their wages 2022-10-15 [Politico]

Club Sassy’s Sues a Stripper Strike Organizer for Defamation 2022-09-29 [Willamette Week]

BWI stands with striking Weyerhaeuser workers 2022-09-27 [BWI]

Hundreds of Portland City Workers Resist Calls to Return to Downtown Offices 2022-08-31 [Willamette Week]

ILWU Local 5 raises money for striking Alabama coal miners 2022-08-19 [ILWU]

New OSHA rules in place to protect outdoor workers during extreme heat 2022-07-28 [FOX]

Burgerville Workers of Color Call for Resignation of Manager for Racist Actions 2022-07-28 [Portland Mercury]

Oregon lawmakers won't pay ‘essential worker' stimulus this year 2021-06-21 [Oregonian]

Portland Burgerville Workers Go on Strike Over Company Ban on Political Buttons: “This isn't just about buttons” 2018-09-19 [Williamette Week]

NECA/IBEW Local 48's training center shows increase of women and minority students looking for new job opportunities in electrical field 2018-08-01 [Biz Journal]

Inside Warren Buffett's Precision Castparts, a Union Scores a Foothold 2017-09-25 [Bloomberg]

A student's guide to UO's campus labor unions 2019-11-07 [Daily Emerald]

$93.6 Million Verdict Threatens to Bankrupt One of America's Most Powerful Unions 2019-11-23 [NYTimes]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]

7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]

7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]

7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]

8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]

8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]

9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]

11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]

12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]

12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]

13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]

15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]

15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]

16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]

18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]

31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]