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What is a life worth? According to Oregon OSHA, it seems, $5,400. That’s how much it recently fined a company after a worker was killed on the job.

UFCW Local 555 president Dan Clay says retail workers shouldn’t have to fear gun violence but it’s becoming increasingly common.

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Student behavior – including assaults – are a factor in record-high classroom aide and support staff turnover.

Incidents of disruptive airline passengers and abusive mass transit users have increased sharply in the past few years.

The crash is the latest evidence for what union-represented paramedics have described as growing public hostility toward ambulance workers.

Assaults on paramedics and EMTs have changed the nature of a job for workers who didn’t historically face on-the-job violence.

It took a few years, but Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health agency has finalized rules protecting Oregon workers from heat and smoke.

So-called “safe rest villages” in Portland are highly unsafe for staffers, leading workers to seek union representation with AFSCME.

Privately-insured and self-insured employers are rejecting worker comp claims at a greater rate than the state-chartered non-profit SAIF.

Last year more than 69 Oregonians died from injuries sustained while working, not including the 169 who died after workplace COVID outbreaks.