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Union Organizing
BrucePac’s immigrant workforce says no to union
Three years after a union campaign began at BrucePac, vote is more than 3-to-1 against unionizing
Workers Rights
Fired BrucePac workers reinstated
BrucePac has offered reinstatement and back pay to three of the 17 union supporters it fired in June 2009.
Workers Rights
Oregon’s Worker Freedom Act survives court challenge
Oregon’s Worker Freedom Act has survived its first court challenge. In a May 6 ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman dismissed a lawsuit...
Workers Rights
NLRB rules BrucePac firings broke federal labor law
BrucePac broke labor law when it fired workers for supporting a union campaign, says a federal judge.
Workers Rights
Laborers union campaign at BrucePac becomes test case
By DON McINTOSH, Associate Editor
Two business groups, Associated Oregon Industries (AOI) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have chosen a union campaign at...
Workers Rights
BrucePac faces NLRB charges in mass firing of pro-union workers
Cooked meat producer BrucePac fired at least 17 union supporters just weeks into a union campaign.
