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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

$15 SeaTac minimum wage challenged in court

Dec 17, 2013

Judge will rule by Jan. 1, when the law is to take effect

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Workers Rights

Supreme Court drops case over whether union neutrality is illegal

Dec 17, 2013

Employer neutrality toward unions could be considered illegal in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama

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National

U.S. Supreme Court hears challenge to union neutrality agreements

Dec 4, 2013

Several justices grill a lawyer from an anti-union group

Workers Rights

Judge rules PIRG call center fired worker for union activism

Nov 12, 2013

The Fund for the Public Interest is ordered to reinstate David Neal with back pay

Workers Rights

City of Portland to union rep: Get off the property

Nov 12, 2013

A union rep distributes buttons and talks to members, without management’s permission

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After years of delay, Obama DOL says home care workers will get minimum wage, overtime

Oct 31, 2013

A decades-old exclusion ends for nearly 2 million workers.

Politics

SeaTac voters to decide on $15 minimum wage

Oct 30, 2013

The Nov. 5 ballot measure would lift estimated 6,500 workers in transportation and hospitality

Workers Rights

Unions, allies, march for jobs on 50th anniversary of March on Washington

Sep 3, 2013

Rallies were held simultaneously around the country

Workers Rights

PIRG fundraising group on trial for labor violations

Aug 13, 2013

Fund for the Public Interest managers tell a judge that firing David Neal was business as usual.

Workers Rights

‘Like’ this: Workers’ rights get an update in the age of social media

Jun 5, 2013

NLRB is trying to defend workers protected speech online

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