Workers Rights

On Oct. 14, Tulsi Gabbard will take the stage in Hillsboro at an event sponsored by the rabidly anti-union Freedom Foundation.

Strung along by their employer and then Oregon’s labor bureau, workers got paid in February for work they did in 2021.

Unfair labor practice charges jumped 16% year over year — continuing a significant caseload increase from the previous fiscal year.

The union-busting coffee giant sees a strike wave, an adverse legal ruling, and its leader hauled before a Senate Committee.

Democratic majorities voted to repeal a “right-to-work” law that GOP legislators passed in 2012, and restore the state prevailing wage law.

The contractor stiffed its workers of $200,000 on multiple Southwest Washington public construction projects.

As skies dumped snow on Portland, administrators were warm in home offices, but night custodians battled blizzard conditions to get to work.

The Portland police union says officers should get to see bodycam footage before writing reports, as they do at most other police bureaus.

Democrats in Congress have signed onto the PRO Act, a bill to make it easier to unionize. Republicans have not.

The Port of Portland is exploring the possibility of dedicating a temporary space for prayer at the airport in time for Ramadan.

New Seasons Labor Union says the company should bargain over recent policy changes at stores that have unionized.

Senate Bill 1513 was written specifically to target overtime abuse at Nabisco’s Portland plant, but the company hasn't changed its actions.

The payroll problems began to emerge in October 2022, just after the company implemented a new payroll system known as “MyTime.”

Democrats increased the NLRB budget 9% last year, after a 10-year freeze. Now the GOP’s back in charge of the House.

The anti-union language was included in the first bill to pass the newly Republican-led chamber during the 118th Congress.

More than 1,000 service workers at Portland International Airport will get a bump in their paid time off accrual this summer.

Sheet Metal Local 16 says the strike brought attention to the company’s anti-union conduct and led to more regulatory scrutiny on the employer.

History may remember the episode as a betrayal by the man who pledged to be the most pro-union president in U.S. history.

Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage - which is all there is in 20 states - has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009.

They include minimum per-minute, per-mile and per-trip rates drivers must be paid; paid sick leave; workers compensation; and more.