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Oregon Legislature
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.
Oregon
Oregon labor legislation update
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.
Oregon
Unionist seeking House seat falls short
Multnomah County Commission appointed Andrea Valderrama as state rep for HD 47, passing over former union president Adrienne Enghouse.
Oregon
ATU fights to save apprenticeship, and win back the right to strike
SB 690, a bill introduced by Oregon State Senator Chris Gorsek, would restore the right to strike for public transit workers like bus drivers.
Workers Rights
Oregon Justice Department says legislative workers can’t unionize
Legislative aides don’t have the right to unionize after all, says Oregon's Attorney General in objections on behalf of the Legislature.
Politics
Labor prepares 2021 state legislative agendas
The union movement will be pushing fairly modest proposals when state legislatures meet in Salem and Olympia in 2021.
Union Organizing
Oregon legislative staffers unionize with IBEW 89
It's the first union of legislative staff in the country. The 110 employees work for both Democratic and Republican legislators.
Union Organizing
A union for Oregon legislative staff?
Oregon legislative aides are seeking to unionize with IBEW Local 89 in what could be the first union of legislative staff in the nation.
Oregon
Telling labor’s story to lawmakers
For a day, there were more union construction workers than legislators in the State Capitol building.
Oregon
Lawmaking season in Oregon and Washington
Oregon and Washington lawmakers have begun their 2020 "short" sessions. Thought timelines are short, labor is still calling on lawmakers to deliver.
Oregon
How working people and unions fared in the 2019 session of the Oregon Legislature
Lawmakers passed paid family leave and boosted school budgets, but also cut public worker compensation and punted on climate.
Comment
We must not forget Oregon Democrats’ betrayal on PERS
Organized labor should hold accountable those who side with a corporate capitalist agenda at the expense of workers.
Oregon
Oregon lawmakers vote to cut public employee retirement contributions
Democrats led the charge to divert up to 2.5 percent of public worker pay to shore up PERS.
