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March 01
After five years of labor by 21,000 workers, 112 of whom were killed on the job, the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) is completed and turned over to the government. Citizens were so mad at Pres. Herbert Hoover, for whom the dam had been named, that it was later changed to Boulder Dam, being located near Boulder City, Nev - 1936

March 02
The Davis-Bacon Act took effect today. It orders contractors on federally financed or assisted construction projects to pay wage rates equal to those prevailing in local construction trades - 1931

March 04
Pres. William Howard Taft signs legislation creating the Department of Labor. Former United Mine Workers Secretary Treasurer William B. Wilson is named to lead the new department - 1913

March 05
British soldiers, quartered in the homes of colonists, took the jobs of working people when jobs were scarce. On this date, grievances of ropemakers against the soldiers led to a fight. Soldiers shot down Crispus Attucks, a black colonist, then others, in what became known as the Boston Massacre. Attucks is considered the first casualty in the American Revolution - 1770

March 06
With the Great Depression underway, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in some 30 cities and towns; close to 100,000 filled Union Square in New York City and were attacked by mounted police - 1930

 
Mar 12-13

Leadership Schools - Metro II
See brochure  / Register online

Portland
Mar 13
7 pm-midnight
PDX Cross Trade Solidarity Presents A Labor Soiree

Sweets and treats with local brew from Captured By Porches. Music by the Underscore Orkestra and Bootz Orchestra. Silent auction, door prizes, raffles.

F
undraiser to support the work of Portland Cross Trade Solidarity!    

Portland Cross-Trade Solidarity is a group of rank and file, building trade union members who work together on a diverse range of progressive issues that affect members of the construction industry and the working class at-large.  Much of our work focuses on education and on creating a social network able to respond to and assist in the struggles facing members of other Portland construction locals. We meet in the morning on the 3rd Sunday of each month. Membership is open to construction trades union members, working and retired, who agree with our unity points. To get involved, contact us at CrossTradeSolidarityPDX@gmail.com
Musician’s Union 325 NE 20th Avenue (between Burnside and Sandy), Portland
April 8 Public Employment Relations Conference
[flyer]

Co-sponsored by the Oregon Public Employers Labor Relations Association and the Oregon Labor Employment Relations Association.

Since 1979, LERC has hosted the Public Employment Relations Conference (PERC), a gathering of public sector labor relations professionals from across Oregon, including attorneys, neutrals, and representatives from both unions and management. LERC coordinates the conference in even years, and the Oregon chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association assumes coordinating duties during odd years.  

Attendees discuss recent developments in public sector labor law (PECBA) and labor relations in both plenary sessions and workshops. The highlight of the conference is a review of leading labor law cases by members of the Oregon Employment Relations Board (ERB). This unique and popular segment of PERC features discussion of decisions rendered by the ERB during the past year and allows board members, management, and union representatives to offer their perspectives on major developments in Oregon’s public sector labor law.

In conjunction with the PERC the Labor Education and Research Center publishes a LERC Monograph Series, a collection of volumes providing in depth analysis of specific topics affecting Oregon’s public sector workers and managers, with special emphasis on the PECBA. Written by leading labor law professionals in Oregon’s public sector, the series has become a standard reference source for labor, management and neutral practitioners. To date there have been eighteen volumes of the Monograph. The latest edition of the Monograph [June 2007] is:

Public Employees and Oregon’s Scope of Bargaining, by Akin Blitz and Liz Joffe

Salem Conference Center
Salem, OR
April 24 Leadership Schools

Bargaining to Win (class offered by video conference)
Eugene/Springfield and Bend
June 11-13 Call for Papers, Workshops, and Presentations Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Annual Conference
“The Union Makes Us Strong”: Inspiration, Guidance, and Hope During Hard Times


The Pacific Northwest has been seriously affected by the current economic crisis, the worst since the Great Depression. This crisis has inflicted extreme hardship on workers, families, and communities throughout the region. Although the Pacific Northwest has had many historical encounters with economic downturns and hard times, the region also has a rich tradition of unionism, community organizing, and independent political action. It is this context that shapes the theme of the 2010 PNLHA conference. In hard times we can draw on this history for inspiration, guidance, and hope in developing strategies that promote working-class needs and interests.
Portland
June 12 Unions for Kids Events
[more about Unions for Kids; events]

Join us for a day of fun helping the kids at Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
IBEW Local Union 48,
15937 NE Airport Way,
Portland
July 6-10
2010 West Coast Summer Institute for Union
[See flyer]

Women meet other women activists and gain new and renewed energy as we learn about and discuss the important issues facing women workers today.
Reed College
Portland
Aug 6-8 AFL-CIO Summer School University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon


For more information on LERC events go to the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center’s website at http://www.uoregon.edu/~lerc/ or call 541-346-5054.

 

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