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Shasta County/FacebookShasta County has failed to reach an agreement on a new contract with the local union representing sheriff’s deputies and correctional officers. The union says low wages are creating a staffing shortage in the county jail. -
Ben Botkin/Oregon Capital ChronicleMore than 1,000 state government employees joined a union rally at the state Capitol, urging state officials to pay better wages.
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UFCW Local 555 says it's well on its way to forcing a recall election on Rep. Paul Holvey, D-Eugene. Senate Democrats have tried to intervene. -
Workers at the Starbucks coffee shop in Ashland have announced their intent to unionize. They’re the first store in Southern Oregon to do so. -
California farmworkers marched 335 miles last year to pressure Gov. Gavin Newsom on a law that would help them unionize. Then the union agreed to give back a key win. -
State legislators sometimes exempt themselves from the laws they pass, but this session, they could change course on an emblematic bill: To allow their own staffers to form a union. -
California’s fast food workers could get the power to collectively bargain under a bill moving through the state legislature, a measure that could drastically change the fast food and franchising industries. -
A Starbucks store in Eugene has become the first in the state to unionize after a unanimous vote on Wednesday.
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Oregon’s seven public universities have reached a tentative labor agreement with the union that represents classified staff. -
Even as the delta variant causes spikes in COVID-19 case numbers just weeks before the new school year, state lawmakers have yet to issue a vaccine mandate for public school teachers. -
The conservative group and Medford-area Republican representative Kim Wallan argue that unionization of legislative staff is unconstitutional and at odds with state's separation of powers law. -
If a strike does occur, it would be the first-ever faculty strike at an Oregon public university. -
At issue is a 1975 California law that allows union organizers limited access to farms so they can seek support from workers in forming a union. -
The bill shows some legislators support their staff organizing, even as the state argues the move isn't allowed.
