Workers Rights

Painting contractor tells NLRB he would rather close up shop than go union

Company owner represents himself in five-day trial

Good luck with that: One wage and hour investigator for every 123,000 workers

David Weil is the first Obama appointee to Wage and Hour to get through the Senate

City of Portland rolling back Walmart bond investments

City cashes out $9 million in Walmart bonds, to the applause of UFCW Local 555

Eugene task force to report back to City Council about paid sick leave

There appears to be majority support on City Council for an ordinance like the one in Portland.

No surprise: Portland park rangers vote union

Overcoming legal obstruction by the City, rangers are now part of DCTU

Unionists turn out for Portland May Day rally

International Workers Day draws hundreds to downtown march and rally

NLRB rules McKenzie-Willamette Hospital broke labor law

The Springfield facility is part of America’s second-biggest for-profit hospital chain

NLRB says painting contractor broke federal labor law

Nonunion Edwards Painting of Oregon City will go before a judge May 6

Eugene could be next to guarantee paid sick days

A labor-community coalition is finding City Council support for an ordinance

Arbitrator tells Clark County to follow the union contract

OPEIU Local 11 wins redress after a worker loses out to a less qualified junior co-worker

Judge strikes down SeaTac’s $15 minimum wage — for airport workers

The ballot measure still goes into effect for hotel workers

Sick leave ordinance will take effect in City of Portland Jan. 1

Backers plan to push for statewide legislation in 2015.

$15 SeaTac minimum wage challenged in court

Judge will rule by Jan. 1, when the law is to take effect

Supreme Court drops case over whether union neutrality is illegal

Employer neutrality toward unions could be considered illegal in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama

U.S. Supreme Court hears challenge to union neutrality agreements

Several justices grill a lawyer from an anti-union group

Judge rules PIRG call center fired worker for union activism

The Fund for the Public Interest is ordered to reinstate David Neal with back pay

City of Portland to union rep: Get off the property

A union rep distributes buttons and talks to members, without management's permission

After years of delay, Obama DOL says home care workers will get minimum wage, overtime

A decades-old exclusion ends for nearly 2 million workers.

SeaTac voters to decide on $15 minimum wage

The Nov. 5 ballot measure would lift estimated 6,500 workers in transportation and hospitality

Unions, allies, march for jobs on 50th anniversary of March on Washington

Rallies were held simultaneously around the country