June 2022 - nwLaborPress

Assaults on paramedics and EMTs have changed the nature of a job for workers who didn’t historically face on-the-job violence.

Things aren’t ‘all good’ at All Good Northwest, which runs tiny house villages for the homeless in Portland.

Oregon’s minimum wage gets its last big increase July 1 under a 2016 law that phased in raises over six years.

It took a few years, but Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health agency has finalized rules protecting Oregon workers from heat and smoke.

Union members are getting experience with mass timber at Portland International Airport’s new terminal roof.

Taft-Hartley brought 12 years of explosive union growth to a sudden end, and it contributed to what has now been a 75-year decline.

As many as 4,000 labor activists – including 100 from Portland – gathered in Chicago June 16-19 for the national Labor Notes conference.

Tenants rights advocates are petitioning for a Multnomah County initiative to provide free legal representation for tenants facing eviction.

At Gresham cannabis grower CBN Holdings, a strike for union recognition has dragged on without result, and workers have had to find new jobs.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reverse its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision drew immediate opposition from national labor groups.