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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.

National

An end to overtime? U.S. House passes a bill letting employers offer ‘comp’ time instead of paying overtime

May 15, 2017

The bill would erode the 40-hour work week by making it cheaper for employers to require long hours.

Workers Rights

Operating Engineers Local 701 picket at Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant

May 3, 2017

A new complaint says a contractor, Veolia North America, broke federal labor law.

Workers Rights

Oregon judge in bakery lawsuit rules against double overtime

Apr 4, 2017

The lawsuit against Portland Specialty Baking will still go forward.

National

Unions facing fierce attack in GOP-led state legislatures

Feb 28, 2017

Iowa strips public worker collective bargaining rights, but right-to-work fails in New Hampshire.

National

Another state goes ‘right-to-work’ – Missouri

Feb 14, 2017

Missouri follows close on the heels of Kentucky, and a right-to-work bill in Congress would bar any requirement to pay union dues nationwide.

Workers Rights

Instafab hires union-buster Bob Tiernan

Jan 18, 2017

Tiernan, former chair of the Oregon Republican Party, is a labor relations consultant who helped rid a Berkeley grocery of its union.

National

Anti-union ‘right-to-work’ laws spreading quickly

Jan 17, 2017

Kentucky on Jan. 7 became the 27th “right to work” state. Missouri will be next, and maybe even New Hampshire.

Workers Rights

Burgerville suspends union activist for eating a bagel

Jan 12, 2017

A vocal leader of the campaign to unionize the Burgerville fast food chain has been suspended without pay since Jan. 6 — ostensibly for failing to pay 70 cents for a bagel and cream cheese.

Workers Rights

Toothless law: 3 years in, still no penalty for flagrant unionbuster

Jan 3, 2017

The three-year legal saga of a local union-busting paint contractor shows how weak U.S. labor law can be.

Workers Rights

Long day AND long week? For Oregon factory workers, double the pay

Dec 28, 2016

180,000 Oregon factory workers can now earn time-and-a-half twice.

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