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Workers Rights

Workers’ rights are human rights. They don’t come from laws — they come from being human. In the Workers Rights section, we report on the right to organize and bargain collectively, the right to a decent standard of living, and the right to be treated fairly and with dignity.

Workers Rights

New Seasons improves conditions … for its nonunion workers

May 17, 2023

Workers say New Seasons Market has borrowed a tactic from the anti-union playbook: improving conditions at non-union locations.

Washington

Washington gives Uber drivers more workers rights

May 17, 2023

On May 15, Washington became the first state to extend unemployment insurance and paid family and medical leave to Uber and Lyft drivers.

Workers Rights

Anheuser-Busch could be delivered nonunion if Maletis Beverage succeeds in busting Teamsters

May 17, 2023

Owner Rob Maletis withdrew union recognition after a majority of employees signed a petition that they no longer wish to be represented. 

Workers Rights

PSU Starbucks: Unionize on Friday, strike on Monday

May 5, 2023

The strike started because managers told a barista to clock off and go home after she showed up to work in a union T-shirt. 

Workers Rights

Shilling for the antiunion Freedom Foundation? Tulsi, say it isn’t so!

May 5, 2023

On Oct. 14, Tulsi Gabbard will take the stage in Hillsboro at an event sponsored by the rabidly anti-union Freedom Foundation.

Workers Rights

R&H Construction pays $193,000 to settle wage theft case

Apr 20, 2023

Strung along by their employer and then Oregon’s labor bureau, workers got paid in February for work they did in 2021.

Workers Rights

Labor law violations on the rise nationally, NLRB says

Apr 20, 2023

Unfair labor practice charges jumped 16% year over year — continuing a significant caseload increase from the previous fiscal year. 

National

Starbucks coming under pressure

Apr 6, 2023

The union-busting coffee giant sees a strike wave, an adverse legal ruling, and its leader hauled before a Senate Committee.

National

Michigan repeals ‘right-to-work’ and restores prevailing wage

Apr 6, 2023

Democratic majorities voted to repeal a “right-to-work” law that GOP legislators passed in 2012, and restore the state prevailing wage law. 

Workers Rights

360 Sheet Metal must pay $118,000 more for wage theft

Apr 6, 2023

The contractor stiffed its workers of $200,000 on multiple Southwest Washington public construction projects.

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