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minimum wage
Workers Rights
Minimum wage will rise to $16.80 in Portland
Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries announced Apri that the state minimum wage will increase 3.3% July 1.
Workers Rights
Disney to pay quarter billion dollars to settle wage lawsuit
Disney is set to pay $233 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over non-payment of a local minimum wage.
National
Missouri Legislature repeals sick leave law passed by voters
Missouri Jobs with Justice will try to restore the law with a constitutional measure to be placed the 2026 ballot.
National
Senate GOP: No minimum wage increase
With the public in solid support of an increase, Bernie Sanders puts senators on the record, and not for the first time.
National
Trump tosses Biden order that raised wages for federal contract workers
The Biden executive order had raised wages for 390,000 workers, about one fifth of the federal contract workforce.
National
Ballot measures to watch
Workers rights will once again be on the ballot around the country this election as voters in five states decide on the minimum wage.
National
Michigan Supreme Court overturns GOP lawmakers’ minimum wage dirty trick
The GOP-led legislature adopted the measure, then waited until after the election and voted to repeal what they adopted.
Workers Rights
Minimum wages rising in Washington and Oregon
Oregon’s minimum wage rose to $15.45 in the Portland metro area on July 1. Washington's will rise to $16.28 an hour on Jan. 1.
National
Minimum wage rises in 23 states
Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage - which is all there is in 20 states - has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009.
Workers Rights
New year raises Washington minimum wage
More salaried Washington workers just got the right to overtime too. And Oregon minimum wage goes up July 1.
Workers Rights
Oregon minimum wage going up
The minimum wage rises today from $12.50 to $13.25 within the Portland Metro urban growth boundary.
Workers Rights
Washington state minimum wage rises to $12
And in Seattle, Tacoma, and SeaTac, it's even higher.
Workers Rights
The Fight for $15: The Right Wage for a Working America
An architect of Seattle's $15 minimum wage has written a book about the surging 15 movement.
Oregon
Historic gains in 2016 Legislative session
Top issue was minimum wage, but Oregon lawmakers made progress on other fronts as well.
Workers Rights
Oregon set to have nation’s highest minimum wage
The seven annual wage hikes start with a 25 or 50 cent rise this July 1.
Oregon
Oregon minimum wage raise speeding to passage
The bill would raise wages by 2022 to $14.75, $13.50, and $12.50 in different parts of the state.
Workers Rights
Victory for SeaTac airport workers
State high court throws out lawsuit against Seatac's $15 minimum wage
Workers Rights
Minimum wage campaign fills Oregon Capitol hearing rooms
Backers and opponents traded volley after volley at a hearing on raising Oregon’s minimum wage.
Oregon
Oregon Senate President says he won’t allow vote on minimum wage increase
"I'm not going to do minimum wage," Courtney tells Southern Oregon chamber of commerce members
Analysis
UP IS DOWN
How the Oregonian stretched facts to argue that a massive minimum wage increase wouldn’t help workers
