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The end has finally arrived for the glass plant in NE Portland. Owens-Brockway is shutting it down and permanently laying off 90 workers.

Who’s making sure construction workers aren’t getting cheated by employers? A small team of county workers and union volunteers.

The restored library was first opened in 1912, and the arches, cornices, and plaster rosettes show the careful craftsmanship of that era.

Rogue Valley Transit District and TriMet are preparing to slash jobs amid state and federal funding shortfalls.

State lawmakers ran out of gas. Now hundreds of employees of the Oregon Department of Transportation are out of work.

Trump is keeping intact a Biden executive order that requires project labor agreements on federal construction projects over $35 million.

Students and staff at Job Corps programs are in limbo as a federal judge temporarily blocked closures ordered by the Trump administration.

More than 400 construction workers were off the job for four months because of a technical land use appeal.

Union advocacy over months of public hearings and meetings resulted in scaled back layoff plans in the new city council’s first budget.

At a public hospital in Coos Bay, union-backed candidates critical of a deal with a for-profit hospital operator take office this month.

Oregon lawmakers are weighing new taxes to pay for roads, but opponents may try to refer the bill to the ballot to try to defeat it.

The $4 billion budget approved by Multnomah County leaders for the fiscal year that starts July 1 cuts at least 100 staff positions.

The company is offering $55,000 buyouts as it prepares to slash production from its current 21 trucks a day to 12.

A Portland Albertsons will close July 1, resulting in layoffs for workers represented by UFCW Local 555 and Bakers Local 114.

Vancouver's iconic circular high-rise has provided housing to low-income seniors for 60 years. Its managers want to make it new again.

When a North Portland packaging plant closes in June, 72 members of its partially unionized workforce will lose their jobs.

Unions at the City of Portland are sounding the alarm at possible layoffs of frontline workers that could unfairly spare city managers.

The company will lay off 244 members of Teamsters Local 162. The delivery hub will close June 30 for over a year.

Radius, formerly Schnitzer Steel, includes over 100 scrapyards plus a steel rolling mill in McMinnville, Oregon.

The construction trade group Associated General Contractors led a lawsuit saying Tina Kotek exceeded her legal authority.