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Month: June 2022

Worker safety

For paramedics, assaults become part of the job

Jun 29, 2022

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

Workers Rights

Homeless nonprofit fires whistleblower

Jun 29, 2022

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

Oregon

Portland-area minimum wage reaches $14.75

Jun 29, 2022

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

Worker safety

Oregon OSHA heat and smoke rules official as of July 1

Jun 29, 2022

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

Jobs

Raising the roof

Jun 29, 2022

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

Labor History

The law that poisoned labor: Taft-Hartley turns 75

Jun 29, 2022

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.

National

Another sign of labor revival

Jun 29, 2022

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

Multnomah County

County ballot measure would provide lawyers to tenants facing eviction

Jun 29, 2022

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

Buy Union

Cannabis boycott remains as strike wanes

Jun 29, 2022

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

Workers Rights

AFL-CIO: Abortion rights are workers rights

Jun 29, 2022

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

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