Workers Rights

Grants Pass is ordered to include vacation and sick leave when computing firefighters’ overtime.

A Dyno Nobel manager drops in on a union organizing meeting to see who showed up.

Dosha terminated another union supporter — massage therapist Philip Aust — on Feb. 20.

Was a New Seasons worker fired for eating tofu, or because he spoke up for workers rights?

The Verizon and NFL strikes were the year's biggest.

A new rule says private employers must display a poster explaining workers’ rights to form a union.

Tens of thousands of Wisconsin public workers have lost collective bargaining rights.

Vancouver Hilton managers get carried away campaigning against a boycott.

St. Charles Medical Center in Bend sounds like a dictatorship in a case filed by SEIU Local 49.

Workers at Fund for the Public Interest’s Portland call center voted in October to unionize.

Dosha Salon Spa was elected “Scrooge of the Year” at a Dec. 10 fundraiser

Now workers must get a contract at a non-profit that spent $65,000+ to bust the union.

Washington County's ambulance contractor is accused of breaking the law to fight unionization.

Bus contractor First Student is accused of playing games in bargaining with OSEA at South Umpqua.

MetroWest Ambulance, which has a contract with Washington County, has begun firing union supporters.

A federal agency is investigating labor law violations at a Southern Oregon food co-op.

A massage therapist is terminated after wearing red feather earrings.

The penalty is for refusing to bargain when it sold its Vancouver factory to Mercury Plastics.

Defying the Chamber, a widely popular ordinance will require businesses to offer paid sick leave.

Starbucks pays a fired Portland barista to settle charges, after federal agency issues complaint.