The Oregon AFL-CIO president discusses union busting in Portland, how building critical infrastructure will create jobs and other issues facing the workforce Few have fought as relentlessly for the rights of Oregon’s workers as Tom Chamberlain. He’s been ...
12 Nov 2016 - Emily Green
Latino immigrants working for subcontractors are too often subject to wage theft and threats of retaliation As big development dollars flow into Portland amid an explosion of new luxury apartments, McMansions and high-rises, it’s a money grab for those lo ...
27 Oct 2016 - Emily Green
Eli Fishel and her co-workers envision a $5-an-hour raise starting immediately I believe that everyone working, 30 to 40 hours a week especially, should be making enough to live, at the very least. They should also be making enough to move forward in thei ...
7 Jun 2016 - Eli Fishel
COMMENTARY | During 22 months of incarceration, Joe Hill became an intrepid symbol of struggling workers On Nov. 19, 1915, an innocent man was killed by firing squad. The state of Utah determined that immigrant laborer Joe Hill had murdered two people. Wh ...
8 Mar 2016 - Joe Martin
-2013 salary of Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian: $72,000-2013 average salary of principal executive officials in the Bureau of Labor and Industries: $94,685-Percent of Oregon wage and salary workers with union membership in 2012: 15.7-Percent of Ore ...
23 Sep 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld, author of “ What Unions No Longer Do,” describes union decline as if he were a building inspector describing the key weaknesses in an aging building where unions are a failing structural element. In sharp contrast, Steve Early’ ...
14 May 2014 - Mike Wold
Labor unions join Occupy Movement today [caption id="attachment_6196" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Protesters block Steel Bridge, photo by Israel Bayer"] [/caption] Labor unions led the way in the latest O ...
17 Nov 2011 - Street Roots