Workers Rights

If you know your rights, you can successfully navigate a Workers’ Comp claim to get the benefits you have a right to.

BOLI earlier stopped investigating wage claims except for low-wage workers — because it was far behind trying to investigate all wage claims.

Starbucks fired three Portland-area union supporters last month. Their crime? Writing union slogans on the sidewalk outside their store.

The violations stem from a union organizing campaign among undergraduate student workers in 2022 and 2023.

Disney is set to pay $233 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over non-payment of a local minimum wage.

A week after he led a one-day walkout to protest treatment of a coworker, Colin John was fired after three years of working at the company.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Aug. 6 that it’s terminating the union contracts of VA workers.

“Will I still be in a union?” Columbia River Mental Health Services staff get few answers.

Thanks to legislation promoted by UFCW Local 3000, Washington state will protect the right to organize of agricultural workers in cannabis.

Union leaders are celebrating the landmark win, but are also frustrated with how hard it was to pass with a 3/5 Democratic supermajority.

The Oregon Legislature approved a bill that makes prime contractors and property owners liable when a subcontractor doesn’t pay its employees.

Reading the legal complaint and the sworn depositions, the Springfield bakery sounds like something out of the 1970s.

A bill in the Oregon legislature would end firings without cause, set rideshare pay standards, and make drivers eligible for paid sick leave.

Trump’s March 27 order may go down as the largest and most aggressive single act of union-busting in U.S. history.

Bills to give striking workers the right to unemployment benefits are moving forward in Oregon and Washington.

The company violated federal labor law in 2020 when it refused to take back workers who took part in an unfair labor practice strike.

Trump appointee Kristi Noem ended collective bargaining for 47,000 TSA officers, trash-talked the union, and slammed public employee rights.

The National Labor Relations Board is back in business thanks to a federal court ruling.

Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley signed on to the bill, which was sponsored by Republican Josh Hawley of Missouri.

The H-2A temporary agricultural visa program lets farms to hire foreign workers. But they first have to try to hire U.S. workers.