Workers Rights

The Oregon Democrat backs bills to diminish workers’ right to unionize or tack collective action.

Instafab also threatened to fire other employees for talking with strikers.

World Duty Free declined to voluntarily recognize UNITE HERE

AFL-CIO’s Working America is helping LMTs campaign to raise their industry’s standards.

Strikers are hoping for vindication from the National Labor Relations Board.

State high court throws out lawsuit against Seatac's $15 minimum wage

Companies have increasingly hired outside staffing agencies in recent decades.

ABM is refusing to recognize IAM, and the firing could be part of a deliberate legal strategy

ABM would rather pay lawyers to delay the inevitable.

Union-backed Raise the Wage Oregon also would restore cities right to go higher

One commenter was especially prolific. It turns out he has a big stake in the discussion.

Portland Jobs With Justice carried out a three-hour-long protest June 17, including a rally outside City Hall calling for a $15 minimum wage, a...

Striking workers accuse Instafab of firing, threatening, and interrogating union supporters

Ordinance would give the formerly incarcerated a better chance at finding work after release.

To date, the company has not hired any of the laid-off workers to new positions.

Backers and opponents traded volley after volley at a hearing on raising Oregon’s minimum wage.

New airline service contractors will have to hire 80% of their workers from the previous contractor

Clark County Councilor Dave Madore plans to push local measure targeting public employees

Port of Portland proposal would require $13 total hourly compensation in future airport service contracts

Anti-union forces are campaigning across the United States to pass state and local “right-to-work” laws