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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

Unions join women’s groups in new statewide campaign

Sep 17, 2014

SEIU, Planned Parenthood, OEA, and others team up to push economic justice agenda for women

Workers Rights

Up with the minimum wage: A movement on the rise

Aug 12, 2014

In the wake of Seattle’s $15 an hour, minimum wage campaigns are igniting all over the country.

Workers Rights

Will the minimum wage movement come to Oregon?

Aug 12, 2014

Cities are pre-empted by state law, but unions are planning to push a statewide increase in 2015

Workers Rights

Labor steps up big-time to help pass paid Eugene sick leave

Aug 11, 2014

Supporters vow to hold County Commissioners accountable for attempt to thwart Eugene

Workers Rights

Unions join renewed push for immigration reform

Jul 29, 2014

AFL-CIO calls on Obama to take executive action to allow millions to work legally

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Supreme Court decision in Harris v Quinn creates “right-to-work” situation for home care workers

Jul 15, 2014

Noel Canning, a separate decision, will create bureaucratic headache for the NLRB.

Workers Rights

Unions back effort to stop unjust discrimination against applicants with criminal records

Jul 1, 2014

The “ban the box” campaign wants employers and landlords to give ex-offenders a chance.

Workers Rights

Unionist acquitted of trespass charge in right-to-work protest

Jul 1, 2014

Police turned out in force when unionists crashed an anti-union meeting.

Workers Rights

Painting contractor tells NLRB he would rather close up shop than go union

Jun 18, 2014

Company owner represents himself in five-day trial

Workers Rights

Good luck with that: One wage and hour investigator for every 123,000 workers

Jun 4, 2014

David Weil is the first Obama appointee to Wage and Hour to get through the Senate

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