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Portland Metro Area Labor Statistics
100

To inoculate members of the freshly created Record Guild (part of NewsGuild of New York), this classic game was played during captive-audience meetings.

What is bingo?

100

Sunday, May 16 at 1:15 PM

What is the General Membership Meeting?

100

These three Democratic senators have not co-sponsored the PRO Act.

Who are Kyrsten Sinema, Mark Warner and Mark Kelly?

100

Unemployment Rate

What is 6.3%?

200

On April 9, 1100 strikers in Alabama in this steel-related industry voted down a tentative agreement

What is mining?

200

Friday, May 14: 5-7pm

Saturday, May 15: 10 am - 3pm

Sunday, May 15: 10 am - 3pm

What is the Oregon Virtual Troublemakers School?

200

President Biden signed an Executive Order on April 27 that will increase the minimum wage for federal contractor employees to this hourly rate by 2022.

What is $15/hr?

200

"Food Preparation and Serving related" workers are this percentage of the total workforce in the Portland Metro Area 

What is 9.3%?

300

1300 workers of which trade are on strike at nine plants in five states (majority in Pennsylvania) after not seeing a raise since 2014.

What are Steelworkers?

300

Six Tuesdays (9-11am or 5-7pm) starting May 18th.

What is Organizing for Power?
300

This union filed an objection with NLRB, claiming that Amazon violated labor law in Alabama election.

What is the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union?

300

The mean hourly wage for "Educational Instruction and Library Occupations"

What is $33.82?

400

The four largest new-organizing wins at the National Labor Relations Board so far this year have been among workers from which industry?

What is healthcare?

400

Tuesday, May 25: 7pm

What is the Labor Working Group business meeting?

400

A worker organizing independent workers in which industry in Beijing was recently arrested by police on the grounds of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble?"

What are delivery workers?
400

Workers in this industry experienced the largest percent decrease in employment from March 2020 to March 2021.

What is "Leisure and Hospitality"? (-29.4%)

500

This Dallas-based for-profit hospital corporation made more than $400 million in profits, and $2.3billion in federal stimulus funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. Close to 90% of the 800 nurses at one of the hospitals are currently on strike.

Who is Tenet Health?

500

Thursday, May 13, 5:30-7pm

What is the Bigger Than Bernie reading group?

500

A bill that passed the House in March would enlarge the H2-A "guestworker" program (tying foreign workers to a single employer and vulnerable to his abuses), freeze their wages until 2022, and limit raises to 3.25% (instead of the standard 6%), and subject all workers in which industry to online eligibility checks?

What is agriculture?

500

The largest percentage of the total workforce in the Portland Metro Area is in this category

What is "Trade, Transportation, and Utilities"? (19.4%)