Workers Rights

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.

Workers face financial pressure beyond lost wages when they're illegally fired. Now, the NLRB says employers should generally cover those costs.

Kroger is planning to buy competitor Albertsons for $24.6 billion. But the grocery monolith can’t seem to find the cash to pay its workers.

The Florida union buster is just the latest for the Oregon hospital’s hard-core anti-union human resources team.

Starting next September, Oregon workers will be able to take up to 12 weeks off using paid, parental leave.

Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt says he’s ready to prosecute employers who commit wage theft. Oregon Nurses Association has one in mind.