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New laws will give unemployment benefits to strikers, boost labor law enforcement, combat construction wage theft, and expand prevailing wage.

Trump is keeping intact a Biden executive order that requires project labor agreements on federal construction projects over $35 million.

Students and staff at Job Corps programs are in limbo as a federal judge temporarily blocked closures ordered by the Trump administration.

NOLC’s picnic is back at Oaks Amusement Park this year, and attendance limits may make it better than ever.

The union is suspending the boycott July 3 and 4 for a "shop-in" to show the company that the public supports workers at the 11 union stores.

Workers at KQAC — 89.9 FM All Classical Portland — are represented by IBEW Local 48. They’re ready to strike.

In a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to gut the agency, a court says federal mediators must be reinstated.

More than 400 construction workers were off the job for four months because of a technical land use appeal.

Union advocacy over months of public hearings and meetings resulted in scaled back layoff plans in the new city council’s first budget.

Gensco’s new Salem sheet metal fab shop is poised to grow, and workers will have a union contract with Sheet Metal Local 16.

When workers formed United Cannabis Workers in January, Buzz Box voluntarily recognized the union. Then it cut hours and hired new workers.

At a public hospital in Coos Bay, union-backed candidates critical of a deal with a for-profit hospital operator take office this month.

For months, unions have been warning about a non-union Vancouver contractor with a record of safety violations. Now they’re getting louder.

Decades into retirement, transit workers keep in touch with former coworkers thanks to their union, ATU Local 757.

A ship-to-rail container terminal proposed for Coos Bay is the most significant infrastructure proposal the South Coast has seen in decades.

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