Labor
University workers call off strike
September 30, 2013In a startling last-minute reversal yesterday, workers at several Oregon universities called off a strike set to begin on Monday.
Read moreAFL-CIO in motion after history-making convention
September 30, 2013Unionists and their allies are wasting no time carrying out the decisions of what was a trail-blazing convention.
Read moreToday in labor history: 10,000-plus dockers locked out
September 27, 2013Pacific Maritime Association, a coalition of corporate shipping giants, locked out 10,500 longshore workers today in 2002.
Read moreToday in labor history: Wreck of the Old 97
September 26, 2013The derailment left 11 of the eighteen on board dead and the remaining seven injured. Among the dead were engineer Broady, the conductor, and the flagman.
Read more“Right to work” strategy session draws uninvited guests: union members
September 26, 2013Backers of proposed right-to-work initiatives in Oregon and Washington got a taste of what the political fight might look like Sept. 5 at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash.
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