April 17, 2026 issue

Union to City Hall: Wage theft is tax fraud

Members of Portland City Council are also working with the Carpenters to draft an ordinance that would help crack down on wage theft.

Union Republican in a long-shot race for Congress 

Andrea Carr is challenging three-term incumbent Republican Cliff Bentz in a district that stretches over the eastern two-thirds of the state.

Trump budget would slash workers rights enforcement

The administration says it doesn’t want training dollars to go to woke groups ... like the Laborers Union.

Oregon’s delegation to Congress is all or nothing on labor votes

All of Oregon's Congressional Democrats got 100% ratings from the AFL-CIO last year. So did Washington senators Cantwell and Murray.

Rotschy teaching safety? Say it isn’t so

The Vancouver construction contractor has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for safety and child labor violations in recent years.

DOL looks at cutting paperwork for hundreds of small unions

The Labor department’s LM-2 forms can take 600 hours of union staff time to prepare.

KILLED ON THE JOB IN 2025

Here are the names of the 39 workers who died on the job or from injuries sustained while working in Oregon and Southwest Washington in 2025.

Firefighters face the threat of toxins in protective gear

State and local jurisdictions are moving to ban forever chemicals in the protective gear they wear on the job. 

Carpenters reorganize, again

For Portland-area members, this is the sixth time that either their local or regional council was restructured in the last 15 years. 

NLRB orders Amazon to bargain with Teamsters

The agency said Amazon broke federal labor law when refused to recognize a union at its Staten Island warehouse.

Grocery union campaigns against ‘surveillance pricing’

Retailers are individually tailoring prices based on a consumer’s personal information. Electronic shelf labels could be the next frontier.