Northwest Labor Press

Union Organizing

Management ran a standard anti-union campaign, attaching scare-tactic literature to paychecks and holding anti-union meetings.

The results won’t be official until the National Labor Relations Board rules on numerous unfair labor practice charges against management.

The vote brings a five-year saga to a close in which company lawyers stonewalled union supporters at every turn.

The campaign submitted enough signatures to the Coos County Clerk’s office to hold a recall election for two Bay Area Health District board members.

The contract covers case managers, residential advocates and other workers helping people transition from homelessness into housing.

Tina Kotek has appeared at union meetings and alongside numerous labor allies in the days leading up to the election.

Eleven union representatives gave input and raised logistical concerns about how system changes would impact contract negotiations.

Next week, voters in 37 states will consider 132 ballot measures. Those include a handful of labor-related items.

Gillespie, a former president of Oregon AFSCME, served Oregon working people and Eugene residents for more than three decades.

In August, he got an offer he couldn’t turn down: return to his former home of Philadelphia to work for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.