Workers Tasked with Cleaning Oregon’s Highways Lose Their Jobs After Transportation Package Fails

Oregon’s highway cleanup crew loses their jobs after transportation package fails

Nearly all of the men responsible for cleaning 272,000 pounds of garbage off Oregon highways have lost their jobs after lawmakers failed to pass a transportation spending package.

Workers tasked with cleaning Oregon’s highways lose their jobs after transportation package fails

The cuts come on top of the transportation agency laying off 500 employees.

Oregon’s highway cleanup workers lose their jobs after transportation package fails

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Oregon’s highway cleanup crew loses their jobs after transportation package fails • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Interstate Business Solutions is an Indiana-based company that contracts with transportation departments across the U.S., including Oregon's, to provide highway cleanup services. About 50% of its staff consists of formerly incarcerated individuals, alongside others with resume gaps. (Courtesy of Interstate Business Solutions)Nearly all of the men responsible for cleaning 272,000 pounds of garbage off Oregon highways have lost their jobs after la…

Deeply in debt: ODOT’s profligate borrowing helped lead to layoffs – City Observatory

The Oregon Department of Transportation finds itself in serious financial trouble, aggravated by an increasing dependence on borrowing. In the last two fiscal years, the agency has added about $700 million in new debt, chiefly to finance freeway widening mega-project (and their hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns). In the past two weeks, the Oregon Department of Transportation has heaped blame on the Legislature for failing to vote …

‘Consequences to essential transportation services are imminent’

Hundreds of Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) workers have been laid off and the agency administers say services statewide will likely be scaled back.