Labor headlines from the May 16, 1997, edition
of the Northwest Labor Press

Unions and church reach out to NE community

Efforts of union volunteers and Labor's Community Service Agency, AFl-CIO, have shifted the focus of a northeast Portland church's after-school program for kids.

'Tax Fairness Now!' confab draws 200; political action campaigns in the works

"Power and information are the keys to stopping the shift in the federal tax burden."

Portland Metal Trades workers convert spy ship into oil-drilling vessel.

A famous spy ship is being converted into a deep-water oil-drilling rig by union workers at Cascade General.