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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.
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