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American Federation of Teachers
Union Organizing
Faculty unionize at OSU and OIT
Oregon’s labor movement just grew by 2,500 new members.
Building our communities
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria: Union volunteers mobilize for Puerto Rico
Six Oregon nurses join 300 other union members for a two-week stint in the hurricane’s wake. Here's what they saw.
Analysis
Public education is under attack, but the public is coming to its defense
AFT president Randi Weingarten says Trump and DeVos have galvanized public support for public education as never before.
Union Organizing
PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center workers vote to join AFT
The vote is 319 for AFT, 110 for SEIU.
Union Organizing
At PeaceHealth Southwest, 900 workers will choose between AFT and SEIU
The Dec. 14-15 vote is a runoff after no choice got a majority in a Nov. 22 election among service and maintenance workers.
Collective bargaining
Cure for corporate medicine: A doctors’ union contract
Doctors who unionized to fight outsourcing at PeaceHealth in Springfield now have a first contract.
Union Organizing
Big union win at PeaceHealth Vancouver hospital
It was an emotional scene at the vote count, as 310 hospital technicians voted nearly 3-to-1 in favor of unionizing, with 93 percent casting ballots.
Union Organizing
Workers to vote on union at PeaceHealth Vancouver hospital
The 310 licensed technical workers will decide June 1-2 between AFT, SEIU, or no union at all.
Union Organizing
PSU graduate assistants file for union recognition
When it becomes official in about 3 weeks, PSU will have 800 new union members.
Union Organizing
PSU won’t fight union campaign among its grad students
A memo from school administration orders managers to stay neutral.
Union Organizing
Graduate employees at Portland State form union, ask president for neutrality
Grad student employees are already unionized at UO and OSU.
Union Organizing
Two weeks in Alabama
OSEA members say volunteering in the Deep South brings home how precious union rights are
Union Organizing
OSEA to help build labor movement in the Deep South
OSEA members will spend two weeks in Alabama helping school employees there unionize
Workers Rights
American Federation of Teachers bans Coca-Cola
Five national unions now have resolutions on Coke's complicity in violence against unionists
Union democracy
OSEA picks new executive director
Rick Shidaker will replace Steven Araujo, who retires Dec. 31
Collective bargaining
University of Oregon at $320,000 (and counting) in talks with union
An outside law firm employing the former UO president heads up the administration’s bargaining team
Union democracy
Fracture and reunion as nurses unions shift alignments
Nurse associations have merged, split, and morphed as nurses turn toward collective bargaining.
Union democracy
Oregon Nurses Association joins American Federation of Teachers
ONA says the move will enhance nurses' voice in an era of hospital consolidation and cost-cutting
Union Organizing
Five years in, still no flood of unionization through card check
Just 2,487 public employees have unionized since Oregon's card check law passed.
People
Dick Schwarz retires from AFT-Oregon
The longtime AFT leader helped bring down perennial union foe Bill Sizemore.
