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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.

Workers Rights

Moment of decision for the taxi industry

Dec 3, 2014

Encircled by Uber, Portland is preparing a top-to-bottom review of taxi regulations

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American Federation of Teachers bans Coca-Cola

Dec 1, 2014

Five national unions now have resolutions on Coke’s complicity in violence against unionists

Workers Rights

Laborers Local 483 cartoon asks City of Portland to ‘play fair’

Dec 1, 2014

Union says City of Portland rec centers are misclassifying workers as seasonals

Workers Rights

Three Walmart workers strike in Klamath Falls

Dec 1, 2014

OUR Walmart says 1,600 Walmart protests took place nationwide on Black Friday

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San Francisco passes nation’s first Retail Workers Bill of Rights

Nov 30, 2014

Big chain employers will pay a price if they want to change schedules at the last minute

Workers Rights

Buyer beware: You can still be fired for legal marijuana

Nov 17, 2014

Oregon may have legalized, but many employers won’t change their policies

Workers Rights

Federal judge orders employer to hire seven union painters

Oct 15, 2014

Edwards Painting violated federal labor law 18 separate ways.

Workers Rights

At an upscale Pearl District apartment project, a union blows the whistle on wage theft

Oct 1, 2014

General contractor Lorentz Bruun pays $85,000 to settle DOL case against woman-owned paint subcontractor

Workers Rights

Shipyard workers picket smoking ban

Oct 1, 2014

Shipyard workers at six Vigor worksites protest imposition of smoking ban without consulting union

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Fired pro-union PIRG fundraiser takes settlement after devastating crash

Sep 17, 2014

David Neal held out during a lengthy legal battle, but in the end agreed to waive reinstatement

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