Summary Addressing the climate crisis is crucial work that must begin now, be bold, and include unions. The Labor Education and Research Center’s Deborah Mailander and the University of Oregon’s Law School Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center have coauthored...
The new LERC and Illinois Economic Policy Institute study on the impacts of Oregon’s Prevailing Wage Rate law finds that the law does not increase project costs, does boost bid competition and the share of projects that local contractors are awarded, and increases...
In “The Union Advantage” LERC faculty members Mark Brenner and Lina Stepick provide the first empirical assessment of the impact of unions on living standards for Oregon workers. Their findings are consistent with previous national and state-level research,...
