A lien is created in favor of the Director of the Employment Department upon all real property within this state and any structure or improvement thereon and upon any mine, lode, deposit, mining claim, road, tramway, trail, flume, ditch, pipeline, building or other structure or equipment on or pertaining thereto, and upon all lumber, sawlogs, spars, piles, ties or other timber, and upon all other manufactured articles of whatsoever kind or nature upon which labor is performed by the workers of any employer subject to this chapter, in a sum equal to the amount at any time due from such employer to the director on account of labor performed thereon by the workers of such employer, together with interest and penalties.
ORS 657.525