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Oregon Legislature
Oregon
Oregon unions prepare pro-labor agenda for 2025 legislative session
Funding BOLI, unemployment for strikers, and sectoral bargaining are some top labor priorities when the legislature meets Jan. 25 to June 29.
Oregon
A labor look at the 2024 Oregon Legislature
Organized labor notched several legislative wins in the five-week “short session” of the Oregon Legislature that ended March 7.
Oregon
Labor-backed bills moving in short session
Oregon lawmakers are about halfway through the 2024 “short session,” a 35-day session often referred to as a legislative sprint.
Comment
PPS teacher strike: a difficult ballet
The onus for this crisis, which will soon spread, lies squarely with legislators who determine a state budget every two years.
Collective bargaining
Oregon Legislative workers get first union contract
The bargaining unit covers all legislative assistants supporting elected officials in the Oregon Legislature, between 90 and 180 workers.
Oregon
Labor looks back on mostly wins in 2023 Oregon legislative session
Despite a six-week walkout by Senate Republicans, Oregon labor tallied a respectable number of wins in the 2023 legislative session.
Labor History
When collective begging turned to collective bargaining
The union rights Oregon public employees have today were won because workers struck in the lead up to a landmark bill in 1973.
Politics
Labor legislator Paul Holvey faces recall backed by UFCW Local 555
The effort comes after Holvey stymied UFCW's priority legislation, a bill to require cannabis companies to sign labor peace agreements.
Oregon
Lawmakers end Oregon’s lowest-in-nation OSHA penalties
A bill to toughen OSHA penalties is on its way to Governor Kotek’s desk after committee room drama and a failed GOP attempt to gut the bill.
Oregon
Labor-backed bills moving forward in the Oregon Legislature
A number of labor-backed bills in the Oregon Legislature have good chances of becoming law, including one to increase Oregon OSHA’s fines.
Worker safety
Labor to lawmakers: Workers’ lives matter
Oregon OSHA has the lowest fines in the nation: The average for a fatal accident is $1,077. Oregon labor wants that to change.
Oregon/Washington
Taking a pro-worker agenda to our state capitols
Lawmakers in Oregon and Washington have big plans to help working people in this year's legislative sessions.
Oregon
Oregon Legislature passes pro-worker laws in short session
Highlights include overtime protections for farm and bakery workers, $600 checks to essential workers, and $200 million for apprenticeships.
Oregon
Oregon House debates farmworker overtime
Oregon agricultural workers could join the rest of the workforce in receiving overtime pay under a proposal in the legislature.
Oregon
Oregon bill would end last-minute overtime in bakeries
Workers at the Nabisco Portland bakery currently face discipline for refusing to work extra shifts, even when notified at the last minute.
Oregon
An early look at Oregon labor’s 2022 legislative agenda
The Oregon Legislature’s “short session” begins Feb. 1 and ends by March 10. As ever, Oregon labor will promote a set of pro-worker bills.
Oregon
How working people and unions fared in the 2021 session of the Oregon Legislature
This year as always, Oregon labor unions asked lawmakers to make life better for working people in big and small ways.
Union Organizing
Oregon legislative aides become first in nation to unionize
"Local 89. Local 89. No representation. Local 89." One by one, Oregon Employment Relations Board election coordinator Sabrina Dunsworth examined, displayed, and announced the vote, which took place live via Zoom May 28.
Union Organizing
Union vote set for Oregon legislative aides
Ballots will be counted May 28 to determine if a group of 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers want a union.
Union Organizing
Staff at the Oregon Legislature can unionize, Board rules
Plans can now go forward for a union election among roughly 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers.
