Annelise Orleck is coming to Portland with her new book, 'We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now,' about how poverty wages have sparked a labor movement unlike any other Inside a crowded café in Tampa, Fla., Annelise Orleck first heard the words that ...
13 Apr 2018 - Emily Green
Bakery workers in Northeast Portland want consumers to make sure the Nabisco products they’re buying were manufactured in the U.S. Lamar Kennedy has worked at the Northeast Portland bakery that makes Oreo cookies and other Nabisco-brand snack products for ...
12 Jan 2018 - Emily Green
Labor leadership in Portland comes together in defense of targeted communities and immigrant workers Many activist groups may find their members fall into one school of thought or another, but few organizations represent such varying ideologies among thei ...
12 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
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
-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
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