Shoofly workers walk out, bid to make it worker-owned

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Justin Hillsmith has been prepping breads and batters at the vegan bakery Shoofly in Southeast Portland. But now, after he and a dozen co-workers say the new owner missed two paychecks, they want to turn it into a worker-owned co-op.

It's silent inside this Portland favorite along Southeast Division and 11th. A letter taped to the door explains the employees walked out of Shoofly last Friday over the missed paychecks.

"It was kind of a hard decision to walk off the job and to just...