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
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
-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
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
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
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
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
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
COMMENTARY | Improving our quality of life will require rebuilding union strength Fewer workers are in unions now than in 1983, the earliest year in the Bureau of Labor Statistics series on union membership. In 1983 there were 17.7 million, 20.1 percent o ...
9 Jun 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Restoring prudent regulations for U.S. employers is the first step If neither the neoliberal globalization peddled by establishment political parties nor xenophobic protectionism preached by right-wing populists like Donald Trump is the answe ...
6 Oct 2017 - Robin Hahnel