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feel a need to push him not to mess with So-
cial Security or Medicare as part of a “fiscal
cliff” compromise. Labor fails in to recall Wis-
consin Gov. Scott Walker. Hostess Brands
closes after 85 years, lays off 18,000 mem-
bers of Bakers Union. 12-day strike by Steel
Workers Local 8378 at Cascade Steel Rolling
Mills in McMinnville. 1,912 University of Ore-
gon faculty unionize with American Associa-
tion of University Professor. 500 Portland se-
curity officers join SEIU Local 49 at Securitas,
ABM, G4S, and AlliedBarton. Union-spon-
sored ballot initiative diverting Oregon’s cor-
porate kicker tax refund to schools passes by
a wide margin. 2013: Portland City Council
passes new sick leave ordinance. Oregon
Legislature bans the use of public funds to
keep employees from unionizing and ex-
pands prevailing wage law to cover public
projects constructed with donor money, but
The Occupy Wall
Street protest arrived
in Portland Oct. 6,
2011 as 10,000
demonstrators
marched through the
streets of downtown
before filling Pioneer
Courthouse Square to
protest Wall Street
dominance of politics
and the economy.
also trim public employee retirement benefits.
United Grain and Columbia Grain lock out
ILWU from its export terminals at the Port of
Vancouver and Port of Portland. Machinists
Lodge 1005 and Sign Painters and Paint
Makers Local 1094 strike Daimler’s Western
Star truck plant in Portland for 22 days. Fili-
buster reform led by Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff
Merkley results in a fully functioning National
Labor Relations Board for the first time since
President Obama was elected. Boeing tells
Machinists it will leave the Puget Sound and
locate new aircraft assembly elsewhere if
they don’t vote to end their pensions; by more
than two-to-one they refuse. Oregon Legisla-
ture commits $450 million for a new I-5 bridge
over the Columbia River, but Washington
Senate fails to vote the matching amount.
United Food and Commercial Workers re-
joins AFL-CIO. International Longshore and
Warehouse Union disaffiliates with the AFL-
CIO. 2014: 1,400 members of University of
Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellows Federa-
tion strike 8 days. Vigor Industrial completes
installation of North America’s largest floating
dry dock on Swan Island. Oregon Gov. John
Kitzhaber persuades backers to withdraw a
“right-to-work” ballot measure for public em-
ployees — in exchange for labor dropping
ballot measures to raise taxes on big corpo-