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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.

Workers Rights

Local 16 finds prevailing wage violations at Vancouver Fire Station

Jun 16, 2022

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

Workers Rights

Fred Meyer settles child labor charges

Jun 1, 2022

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

Workers Rights

Ontario Oregon hospital trying to bust nurses union

Jun 1, 2022

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

Workers Rights

America’s top wage and hour law enforcer

Jun 1, 2022

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

Workers Rights

Starbucks charged with extensive labor law violations

May 18, 2022

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

Workers Rights

Eugene Starbucks workers go on strike

May 18, 2022

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

Workers Rights

High school students investigate union busting at Starbucks

May 4, 2022

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

Workers Rights

Teamsters battle with Hood River Distillery continues

Apr 21, 2022

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

Workers Rights

Oh, the outrage! City Auditor investigates Portland firefighters washing their cars

Feb 2, 2022

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

Workers Rights

ILWU reefer case headed back to court

Feb 2, 2022

A jury in 2019 ordered ILWU to pay $93.5 million in damages to a Philippine terminal operator. Now a new trial is likely.

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