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A Former Co-Owner of Stoopid Burger is Opening a New Food Cart Next Week

Less than two months after the sudden, surprising closure of Stoopid Burger, former co-owner John Hunt is about to launch a new food cart. Starting March 21, Union Burger will open at Northeast Stafford Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Woodlawn.

On Front Lines of Coronavirus, Workers at Portland International Airport Demand a Better Deal

The airplane cabin cleaners and passenger service attendants will ask the Port of Portland for paid time off.

Initiative Petition to Limit Self-Checkouts at Oregon Grocery Stores to Two Per Location Takes Step Forward

Oregon labor unions want to see self-checkouts disappear.

Oregon’s Unions Grew in 2019. But Did They Lose Influence?

Labors unions and their foes continue to debate how grave an effect a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling had on union membership.

Workers at Columbia Sportswear’s Portland Warehouse Launch Union Drive

Workers at Columbia Sportswear’s Portland warehouse are gathering support to form a union, NWLaborPress first reported.

Workers at Portland’s Grand Central Bakery Production Facility Vote to Unionize

On Dec. 12, workers at Grand Central Bakery’s Northwest Portland production facility voted to join the Bakers, Confectioners, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 114 union.

Unionized Oregon Public Broadcasting Workers Plan to Picket Over Wages Friday Morning

Workers at Oregon Public Broadcasting who are unionized with the Service Employees International Union Local 570 are holding a picket tomorrow morning in a demand for higher wages.

Readers Respond to Portland Public Safety Unions’ Objects to a City Plan to Change the Way it Responds to 911 Calls

Last week, WW wrote about public safety unions’ objections to a city of Portland plan to change the way it responds to 911 calls (“An Injury to One,” WW, Nov. 27, 2019).

Artists Feel Chill at Milepost 5, an Affordable Housing Complex in East Portland

Tenants have demanded changes after saying the new owner, Community Development Partners, has caused conditions to deteriorate.

Unionization Effort Underway at Grand Central Bakery’s Northwest Portland Production Facility

Workers at Grand Central Bakery’s Northwest Portland production facility filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on Friday, Nov. 22, requesting a union election.

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