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December
16 , 2005 Volume
106 Number 24
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2,000 in Portland march for right
to join a union
This
year, to raise the profile of a campaign for workers' rights, unions
and their allies to put together a week of demonstrations ending
Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day. Tens of thousands of people
took part in events in 110 U.S. cities. Workers also demonstrated
in Northern Ireland, and Cambodia, and in Hong Kong, where the World
Trade Organization was about to meet.
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Cowlitz
Tribe will build La Center casino with union labor
The Cowlitz Indian Tribal Council has signed a project labor
agreement with the Columbia-Pacific Building and Construction Trades Council
to build a $510 million casino resort at the La Center Interstate 5 interchange
15 miles north of Portland.
UFCW
Local 555 signs Solidarity Charter with Northwest Oregon Labor Council
United
Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, the largest private sector
union in Oregon, has signed a Solidarity Charter to maintain its affiliation
with the Northwest Oregon Labor Council.
Bricklayer
Mohlis elected leader of Columbia-Pacific BCTC
John
Mohlis succeeds Wally Mehrens, who retires after 17 years at the helm. Mohlis, business manager of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1
for the past 11 years, was elected Dec. 6 by acclamation. He has served
as president of the CPBCTC since 1994.
Sheet
Metal Local 16 members lose to China
Seventy members
of Sheet Metal Workers Local 16 in Salem will be getting pink
slips for Christmas this year, due to competition from China and other
countries,
their employer says.
Inland
Boatmen wage 36-hour strike at McCall Oil
Workers at
McCall Oil and Chemical returned to work Dec. 6 following a 36-hour strike
in response to a National Labor Relations Board complaint against the company
for bargaining in bad faith.
Analysis
Think
again
A
regular column by Tim Nesbitt
Campaign
finance reform: An Oregon primer
Voters
in Oregon will be taken to school next year on the complex subject
of campaign finance reform — one of those subjects that looks
good in the course catalogue but turns out to be a mind-numbing
experience.
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