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Bird flu is racing through farms, but Northwest states are rarely testing workers
Farmworker advocates and health experts say more robust monitoring is needed to prevent the spread of bird flu.
A tale of two workers: Heat deaths on the job provoke differing responses in Oregon, Idaho
After a migrant farmworker died of heat-related illness in Marion County during the 2021 heat dome, Oregon made stricter workplace safety rules. Idaho has done little following a similar death.
Oregon’s labor regulators ask for lawmakers’ help to tackle backlogs
An Oregon bottleneck of civil rights and wage claims has decreased, but workers still face long waits for help from the state agency tasked with enforcing labor laws.
Hundreds of fruit packers in Washington and Oregon take union vote this week
Employees of three Mount Adams Fruit packing facilities in the Columbia River Gorge say they want safer conditions, better treatment and pay.
Portland strike means slower resolution for Salem-Keizer teacher contract
State mediators canceled an initial session Wednesday intended to mediate between the Salem-Keizer School District and its teacher union, saying mediators were needed elsewhere as labor fights heat up across Oregon. The district and union will now meet Dec. 6.
Oregon AFSCME leader under investigation following performance complaint
Stacy Chamberlain, who runs one of the state’s largest unions representing many state and Salem employees, is on leave as elected union leaders spearhead an investigation. Leaders declined to say what the complaint was about.
Gilbert House employees protest workplace conditions amid resignations, firings
On April 19, employees at the children’s museum walked out after the assistant director was fired, causing the museum to close for the day. Museum management said claims of harassment and retaliation are unsubstantiated.
Local Starbucks workers to vote on forming union, first in Salem
Starbucks at 3904 Commercial St. S.E. in Salem on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter) Workers at a southeast Salem Starbucks may soon be the first in the city to unionize. In a letter published Thursday, workers for the Starbucks at Southeast Commercial Street…
Kaiser Permanente strike to begin Monday, expected to impact four facilities in Salem area
A Kaiser Permanente clinic in west Salem. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) On Monday, Nov. 15, 3,400 Kaiser Permanente workers in Oregon and southwest Washington will join a total of 35,000 workers across five states in beginning an indefinite strike. The strike is expected to impact Kaiser…