Don McIntosh

Labor

City ordinance: All Portland workers get sick leave

January 2, 2014 By Don McIntosh

On Jan. 1, more than a quarter of a million Portland workers gained a human right - the right to stay home when they're sick.

Labor

NLRB: Groups’ call center fired worker for union activism

November 15, 2013 By Don McIntosh

"They've taken every opportunity to fire people, and they've been getting away with it."

Labor

As health care exchanges near launch, labor braces for impact

July 2, 2013 By Don McIntosh

Now, four months before the law's mandated state insurance exchanges launch, it appears that while some union members will benefit, others face potential harm.

Labor

Standoff at grain terminals: workers on the job without contract

January 4, 2013 By Don McIntosh

All the grain terminals, which handle a huge share of overall U.S. grain trade, are owned by huge multinational corporations, many of them foreign-based.

Labor

USPS hiring freeze hurts veterans, postal workers say

November 20, 2012 By Don McIntosh

While the USPS was closed on Veterans Day, Portland, Ore. postal employees used their day off to say that if USPS really wants to honor veterans, it should hire them.

Labor

Big union win for security guards

August 15, 2012 By Don McIntosh

Four enormous security companies have agreed to recognize the SEIU -- and begin negotiating a union contract -- for about 500 Portland-area security guards.

Labor

Oregon state Public Interest Research Group fires pro-union workers

January 27, 2012 By Don McIntosh

A non-profit fundraiser for the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group and its spinoff group Environment Oregon has fired two workers who helped lead a campaign to unionize.

Labor

Health reform begins to affect union members covered on the job

January 21, 2011 By Don McIntosh

PORTLAND, Ore. - The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010, by Democratic President Barack Obama, is starting to affect health insurance plans that union members and their families are...

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