Northwest Labor Press

Burgerville pays $10,000 to settle wage and hour violations

Jul 6, 2017

Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries found that the company willfully failed to give workers meal and rest breaks as required by law.

Oregon Supreme Court hears TriMet case

Jul 5, 2017

The public transit agency wants to keep union negotiations closed to the public.

Work slows at Portland plant as Nabisco shifts production to Mexico

Jul 5, 2017

Week-long plant shutdowns prompt 18 U.S. Senators to write to company CEO.

Machinists rep Joe Kear retires

Jul 1, 2017

Kear helped reform the local Machinists union, and persuaded Daimler not to close its Portland truck plant.

Gary Will, 1938 – 2017

Jun 30, 2017

Will spent 31 years as a local and national representative of the Machinists Union.

Fair Work Week: Oregon will be the first state to curb schedule abuses

Jun 29, 2017

A new law will give retail, hospitality and food service workers predictable schedules — and extra pay when schedules change at the last minute.

Kaiser nurses issue warning: Short staffing could diminish patient care

Jun 22, 2017

Nurse union members, frustrated with slow progress on staffing committees, rally outside Kaiser’s Northwest headquarters.

OSHA fines Ross Island Bridge paint contractor $189,000 for safety violations that led to near-fatal accident

Jun 20, 2017

After an accident that seriously injured two workers in a 37′ fall, OSHA levies its biggest fine in more than five years, saying contractor Abhe & Svoboda knowingly put workers at risk.

Farmworkers at Sakuma ratify historic first union contract

Jun 16, 2017

Thanks to a four-year strike and boycott campaign, 200 farmworkers will get $15 an hour and job protections.

Labor may go to the Oregon ballot on tax reform and workers rights

Jun 13, 2017

Oregon’s biggest unions are laying the groundwork for initiatives on the 2018 ballot — in case this year’s Democratic-led Oregon Legislature doesn’t deliver.