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Union rally confronts inequities past and present of the Oregon Convention Center

Public-sector Metro workers call out systemic racism and demand employees of color be treated fairly To confront what it describes as unjust labor practices and the inequitable history of the Oregon Convention Center, the union representing Metro regional ...

28 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
A salute to the women of the IWW

BOOK REVIEW | ‘Beyond the Rebel Girl’ by Heather Mayer chronicles the contributions of women in organized labor in the Pacific Northwest A hundred years ago, Washington and Oregon were hotbeds of labor radicalism. The most radical union of the time, the I ...

29 Mar 2019 - Mike Wold
The Portland IWW: Revolution and music

Cultural resistance – through graphic design, cartoons and songs – was one of the Wobblies’ most effective tools Since Portland’s earliest days, the neighborhood now known as Old Town has been the place for the transient, the homeless and the unwanted. Po ...

4 Jan 2019 - JD Chandler
Gutting workers’ rights with mandatory arbitration

COMMENTARY | Don’t count on the courts to protect you If you think you can rely on the courts, rather than a union, to protect your workplace rights, you better think again. Simply put, the rights of workers are being quietly and steadily whittled down. I ...

23 Nov 2018 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Outside In workers vote to join union

The homeless-services nonprofit's pro-union employees say higher wages and raises are needed to retain staff and better serve clients Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect the results of the Outside In vote. Workers at Outside In, one ...

16 May 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
Guns, capitalism and race: A conversation with Bill Fletcher Jr.

We won't end racism until we end capitalism, says the radical thinker, writer and labor leader Gun enthusiasm is rooted more in racial suppression than in the Second Amendment, Bill Fletcher Jr. told an audience at the SeaTac Hilton in April. From th ...

11 May 2018 - Emily Green
A global worker uprising: 'Things are bad enough for enough people'

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
Crumbling confidence: Some of America’s favorite snacks now made in Mexico

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
A measured approach to globalization

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
The attack on labor unions – and why they matter

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...