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In the Company of Strangersnew
I spent a week renting from Airbnb, Uber and other sharing-economy startups.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-26-2014 |
Business & Labor
NikeLeaksnew
Thanks to Julian Assange, we now know how Oregon’s top company fights corruption, counterfeiting and Croatian smugglers.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
12-20-2011 |
Business & Labor
Cheat Local!new
Portland helped make Groupon a giant. Here's how local businesses get crushed.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
08-17-2011 |
Business & Labor
Tags: Groupon, daily deals
Portland's Iconic Stumptown Coffee is Sold to Investment Firmnew
Stumptown Coffee, the iconic and fiercely independent company that helped define coffee in Portland, has been sold to a New York investment firm.
Willamette Week |
Ruth Brown |
06-06-2011 |
Business & Labor
Tags: TSG Consumer
Oregon's Most Litigious Stripper is Out to Reform the Industrynew
Zipporah Foster insists strippers deserve to be paid a minimum wage like any other worker. She and other dancers around the country are beginning to take a stand, and a handful have successfully sued for back wages.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
11-18-2009 |
Business & Labor
Your Guide to the Protests at Portland's Whole Foods Marketsnew
Whole Foods has protesters outside its local stores and on the Web over everything from charges of union busting to a tin ear by its CEO on the need for healthcare reform. Here's a guide to the latest gripes.
Willamette Week |
Allison Ferre |
08-19-2009 |
Business & Labor
Why the Two Biggest U.S. Tobacco Companies Are Fighting Each Othernew
There's a tobacco war raging in Salem, Ore. that has less to do with the reasons for past battles -- raising taxes or reducing consumption -- than it does with control of a rare industry bright spot: smokeless tobacco.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
05-13-2009 |
Business & Labor
Getting the Lead Out Causes a Freakout for Toy Retailersnew
Like their counterparts nationwide, Portland toy makers and retailers are raising hell about the vagueness, harsh penalties and cost of adhering to a federal law set to take effect Feb. 10. Estimates for testing range from $40 to $4,000, according to the Handmade Toy Alliance, a national nonprofit.
Willamette Week |
Dan Green |
01-15-2009 |
Business & Labor
The Trucked-Up Politics of NAFTAnew
Backed by some of America's most powerful unions, Democrats Barack Obama and Jeff Merkley -- who's challenging Sen. Gordon Smith -- say they want to protect U.S. jobs by reforming international trade deals such as the 14-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. We go to Mexico to see what it's doing there.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
10-01-2008 |
Business & Labor
Beaten to the Pulpnew
The Blue Heron Paper Company is a model of sustainability -- but it's struggling to survive.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
02-13-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Union Workers Push a Boycott of Their Own Hotelnew
A majority of the unionized Portland Hilton workers voted to support a boycott of their downtown hotel employer after bargaining without reaching agreement on a new contract.
Willamette Week |
Don McIntosh |
01-09-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Prison Can be a Walk in the Parknew
Picking up wet leaves in the cold for 5 cents an hour is an opportunity to "develop appropriate work habits," according to the Oregon Department of Corrections and Portland Parks and Recreation. It's also an opportunity for Portland Parks to save $387 a day by hiring state prisoners to do work that city union officials say should be done by its full-time employees.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
11-28-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Portland Public Schools Emulates Wal-Martnew
For one month of nearly full-time work as a cafeteria worker, Erin Fox earned $379 -- the equivalent of roughly $5 an hour.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
10-31-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Inside Portland's Crap Jobsnew
To celebrate Labor Day, we honor those who move poop, deal with doorknob butt-plugs, and more.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
08-29-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Portland's Chop Shop: Immigrant Food Processorsnew
In a town that cares about food and human rights, we find a hidden world of illegal immigrants.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
05-02-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
