Workers Rights

A city bureau has six months to come up with a proposal for a City oversight body focused on wages, dispute resolution, and other issues.

Commissioner Nick Fish says an ordinance to set up a driver "Wage Board" will get May 24 hearing.

The vote was 55-41 to end debate, but backers needed 60 votes.

TriMet, a public transit agency, has spent a bundle to keep the public out of its meetings.

Oregon Democrat Kurt Schrader joined Greg Walden and 215 other Republicans in voting for it.

Otherwise exemplary pro-union workers are being fired for what appear like trivial pretexts.

The company has refused to meet with their union, and has now fired as many as six union supporters.

Freedom Foundation is showing up at workplaces and knocking on doors in Washington and Oregon to try to talk workers out of paying union dues.

In just three months, the new Board has reversed major gains.

The ruling has national ramifications, but whether the welders can unionize is again up to the Seattle NLRB office.

The company hopes a new Trump-appointed NLRB majority will vindicate its lawlessness.

Freedom Foundation is attacking Laborers Local 483 and others.

It's the latest action by the Burgerville Workers Union, which has been campaigning for affordable health benefits and a $5 an hour raise.

Portlander Teressa Stevens was fired Aug. 21 from her job as a driver for TriMet LIFT — for urinating in a parking lot.

Caught violating prevailing wage, he lied to investigators about repaying the money — and offered money to employees to lie and say he'd paid them.

The lawsuit against Ross Island Bridge contractor Abhe & Svoboda seeks a jury trial in federal district court.

Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries found that the company willfully failed to give workers meal and rest breaks as required by law.

The public transit agency wants to keep union negotiations closed to the public.

A new law will give retail, hospitality and food service workers predictable schedules — and extra pay when schedules change at the last minute.

Puzder dropped out as nominee for labor secretary, and lost his job as CEO.