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Communications Workers of America
Union Organizing
Fair Housing Council workers join CWA
The unit includes 14 workers at a statewide nonprofit that protects renters and homeowners from discrimination.
Union Organizing
Microsoft video game workers unionize
The unit consists of about 300 quality-assurance testers at the company’s videogame unit, ZeniMax, which it acquired in 2021.
Union Organizing
Portland workers form first Verizon Express union
By a vote of 4-1, workers at two Portland retail stores for telecom giant Verizon have unionized with the Communications Workers of America.
Union Organizing
Union at Portland Verizon stores
Workers at two Verizon Express stores in Northwest Portland announced a union campaign July 6 with Communications Workers of America (CWA).
Union Organizing
A union of Intel employees?
Matt West, who ran for Congress in the recent Democratic primary, has announced a union effort covering engineers at Intel.
Union Organizing
Comic book workers of the world, unite!
Workers at Portland-based Image Comics announced Nov. 1 that they’re forming a union Comic Book Workers United.
Union Organizing
A union for bank workers
The bank owned by Tom Steyer, billionaire presidential candidate, agrees to union neutrality.
Collective bargaining
AT&T workers begin three-day strike
For workers in the company's wireless division, it's the first-ever walkout.
Collective bargaining
Verizon strike goes nationwide
The East Coast landline strike spreads, with solidarity pickets around the country.
Union Organizing
Union drive begins at DirecTV
Up to 400 technicians in Oregon and Washington could join IBEW
National
American Airlines agents unionize: Biggest union win in the South in decades
Workers join a 14,500-member bargaining unit represented jointly by CWA and the Teamsters
Union democracy
Corvallis native elected president of Flight Attendants union
Sara Nelson is an 18-year flight attendant at United
