Workers Rights

Washington ordered a quarter million dollars in back pay and penalties for prevailing wage violations by 360 Sheet Metal.

Christina Stephenson says heightening BOLI’s wage theft enforcement will be a top priority if she’s elected as labor commissioner.

Starbucks must reinstate seven workers the company fired in Tennessee after a federal judge found the terminations were illegal retaliation.

Oregon Nurses Association says a new payroll system at Providence hospitals has an unfortunate feature: It routinely underpays thousands of nurses.

District Attorney Mike Schmidt is teaming up with Val Hoyle’s labor bureau to go after employers who steal from workers.

The latest International Trade Union Confederation report shows an increase in workers rights violations in recent years.

For Starbucks Workers United, the timing made Portland's 4th and Morrison store closure a clear escalation in union busting.

Union busting alleged at an Oregon hospital would be enough to influence the results of an upcoming representation election, regulators say.

Things aren’t ‘all good’ at All Good Northwest, which runs tiny house villages for the homeless in Portland.

Taft-Hartley brought 12 years of explosive union growth to a sudden end, and it contributed to what has now been a 75-year decline.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reverse its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision drew immediate opposition from national labor groups.

Washington Labor & Industries is investigating, but similar cases have been ongoing for years without a resolution.

An investigation by the Department of Labor found the company regularly allowing minors to load power-driven box balers at stores in Oregon.

A labor dispute between the Oregon Nurses Association and an eastern Oregon hospital intensified after management withdrew union recognition.

Jessica Looman, former head of the Minnesota building trades union council, now leads the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division.

The complaint brings together a slew of charges the union Workers United filed against Starbucks from November 2021 through April 2022.

Baristas shut down stores to protest the company's anti-union stance in the Pacific Northwest and nationally.

For a class assignment, three Portland high school students formed a “workers’ rights board” and explored anti-union activity at Starbucks.

Two years ago, workers at Hood River Distillers went on strike. HRD responded by illegally firing them. Company lawyers are still fighting.

On Jan. 6, Fire Chief Sara Boone declared on-the-job car washing to be unlawful, and ordered firefighters to cease and desist.