Analysis

The $1.3 million difference was greater than the difference between those who did and didn’t attend college.

Leaders of the new union were the guests of honor at the annual Portland Jobs with Justice dinner this month.

In this year's Gallup poll, 71% of respondents said they approve of labor unions, and 40% felt union membership was "extremely important."

Washington is a close third, according to a recent report released by the global antipoverty nonprofit Oxfam.

When it comes to openness about how much money they make, Gen Z is all about pay transparency. The Baby Boom generation, not so much.

If you haven’t gotten an 8.6% raise over the past year, you’re not keeping up with inflation, which is at its highest level since 1981.

Two decades of Gallup polls show a trend: Americans are increasingly calling themselves “working class” again.

Unemployment was down to 4.0% last month, almost back to 3.5%, where it was two years ago before the pandemic.

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports annually on large work stoppages. Here are the 16 major actions happened in 2021, and how they turned out.

The year 2021 had twice as many large work stoppages as 2020, but still far fewer than in the teachers-union-led strike surge of 2018-2019.

Wages for U.S. workers rose 4.5% in 2021, the fastest in 13 years. The biggest were in “leisure and hospitality” where wages jumped 14%.

Last year’s jump in the percentage of workers who are union-represented appears to have been related to COVID.

The year 2021 in labor: A strike wave, eye-popping wage gains in bargaining, statehouse victories. And polls say unions are popular again.

In one survey by Oregon Nurses Association, 60% of nurses said they're considering leaving the profession.

In the latest Gallup poll results, 68% of Americans said they approve of unions, 28% disapprove, and 4% had no opinion.

CEO pay increased an incredible $712,720 last year on average among S&P 500 companies, according to the latest annual report by the AFL-CIO.

ITC says 40 years of trade deals didn’t help much. Our assessment: They accelerated the loss of American manufacturing.

It looks like the 2018-2019 strike surge was a blip, not the start of a new trend. Last year there were just 8 strikes of over 1,000 workers.

Union members continue to out-earn nonunion workers—19.4% more, on average. And Oregon now ties with California as the 7th most unionized.

As chronicled in the Northwest Labor Press, here are some of the year’s most important developments for organized labor and working people.