Demanding better pay and a more flexible work-from-home policy, state workers in SEIU Local 1000 voted to authorize a strike as the union negotiates with Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Cal Fire firefighters tend to earn less money than their counterparts in city fire departments. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law meant to narrow the gap.

Oregon’s seven public universities reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with the classified workers' union just before the union was set to strike.

Manufacturing and food-processing losses weighed on Coos County, while neighboring Curry County’s employment changed little over the year.

More than 100 college women’s basketball players across the country have signed on to create unions, starting with a push from 10 members of OSU’s team petitioning the university to recognize them as a bargaining unit.

Klamath Community College and its union for classified employees are waiting for a ruling from a judge over an unfair labor practice complaint that was filed in January.

Brain sensors are advancing, and California companies, lawmakers and unions are jockeying to shape how the resulting data can be used.

The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to hire more foresters, forestry technicians, land surveyors and heavy equipment operators to increase timber sales in Oregon.

Thousands of state workers reported to work in-person this week as Governor Gavin Newsom’s return to office (RTO) mandate for state employees took effect.

The state flew in a federal highway official to interview for the job last month. It didn’t work out.

Climatologists are predicting an active fire season after a dry winter. Firefighters around the west are standing ready. That includes crews at California’s only smokejumper base.

For the past year, Oregon's unemployment rate has fluctuated very little as the state — and the nation — has remained in what economists call a low-hire, low-fire environment.