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Lawmakers in Oregon and Washington have big plans to help working people in this year’s legislative sessions.

Highlights include overtime protections for farm and bakery workers, $600 checks to essential workers, and $200 million for apprenticeships.

Oregon agricultural workers could join the rest of the workforce in receiving overtime pay under a proposal in the legislature.

Workers at the Nabisco Portland bakery currently face discipline for refusing to work extra shifts, even when notified at the last minute.

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.

This year as always, Oregon labor unions asked lawmakers to make life better for working people in big and small ways.

Oregon’s Democratic and Republican state legislators may not agree on much, but their staff agree on something big: They want a union.

Ballots will be counted May 28 to determine if a group of 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers want a union.

Plans can now go forward for a union election among roughly 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers.

Union-backed bills to give sick leave to construction workers and set the prevailing wage at the union rate have passed at least one chamber.