Oregon labor sees at least 3 union wins, 7 new campaigns or election filings and 6 labor actions Oregon had a slow month for labor in April, seeing fewer wins and new campaigns but more labor actions than in March. The usual industries — health care and e ...
8 May 2024 - Aurora Biggers
Essential workers staged a nationwide strike on May Day, citing coronavirus exposure concerns and substandard benefits at some of the nation's largest retailers Tim Billado stopped going showing up for work at the Fremont Whole Foods Market in Northe ...
2 May 2020 - Emily Green
The president of the United Farm Workers of America has won union contracts with large growers, but conditions for laborers must improve or we won’t have any more agricultural workers, he warns Since Cesar Chavez’s passing in 1993, Arturo Rodriguez has be ...
3 Aug 2018 - 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
Elsewhere Man: Sociologist Dalton Conley takes a wide-angle view of the newly hatched middle class By Adam Hyla, Street News Service Once, it seems like years ago, the American work force’s rising productivity was supposed to buy us some free time. No les ...
19 Feb 2009 - Street Roots