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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.

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Workers Rights

Oregon’s ‘incredible’ crackdown on wage theft

Apr 1, 2016

Oregon legislators passed a law that will make wage thieves tremble.

Workers Rights

Supreme Court tie means reprieve for unions

Mar 30, 2016

Union win in Friedrichs case depended on Justice Scalia’s death.

Workers Rights

Latest TriMet provocation: ‘Paid union orientations are illegal’

Mar 24, 2016

Clever TriMet lawyers interpret a new public sector union neutrality law in an unforeseen way.

Workers Rights

Oregon set to have nation’s highest minimum wage

Mar 1, 2016

The seven annual wage hikes start with a 25 or 50 cent rise this July 1.

Workers Rights

Jail time for wage thieves?

Feb 17, 2016

Will Oregon legislators get tough on wage theft? Not this year. Not really.

Workers Rights

Southern Oregon University pays $2.5 million wage settlement to workers who built new campus dorms

Feb 3, 2016

The settlement wasn’t about cheating workers, but about how the university handled bidding.

Workers Rights

U.S. Supreme Court case could deal blow to public-sector unions

Jan 13, 2016

Judging by what they asked Jan. 11, it appears the U.S. Supreme Court will overrule Abood.

Workers Rights

Portland bans the box

Dec 1, 2015

Businesses will have to wait ’til after a conditional job offer to do criminal background checks.

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New public-sector ‘right-to-work’ measure filed in Oregon

Dec 1, 2015

Four other versions of the measure were submitted in March, but have since been withdrawn.

Politics

Oregon Democratic Congressman Kurt Schrader turning hostile to union rights

Dec 1, 2015

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

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