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Industrial Workers of the World
Analysis
2024: The rest of the story
We’ve reported over 300 stories in 2024. At year's end, we update readers about what happened since we published some of those stories.Â
Union Organizing
Workers at Peet’s Coffee Broadway shop join IWW
It’s the fifth win in the IWW’s Peet’s Labor Union effort, after four coffee shops unionized in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Union Organizing
NLRB says DIY Bar is too small for a union
Workers at the combination craft workshop and bar asked the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election. The NLRB said no.
Union Organizing
Union vote date set at Fried Egg I’m in Love
Workers at the local breakfast sandwich chain will vote whether to unionize as an affiliate of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Labor History
104 years later, Centralia IWW fight continues
Whether the American Legion or Industrial Workers of the World was to blame for a 1919 gun battle is still in dispute.
Comment
Discord in Concord: Erasing ‘The Rebel Girl’
New Hampshire is removing a historical marker honoring labor heroine Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. As erasure of labor's story, it fits a pattern.
Union Organizing
Doormakers decide it’s time for a union
The Millworkers United organizing campaign at Pacific Architectural Wood Products was set in motion over after-work beers.
Collective bargaining
Union reaches agreement with Burgerville
Roughly 100 workers at 5 Portland-area Burgerville locations are about to be the first fast food workers in America to have a union contract.
Jobs
Union sours on Scottie’s Pizza
COVID forced the union pizzeria to close. Now laid-off union workers fault owner Scottie Rivera for reopening with a skeleton crew.
Culture
Oregon’s logger union fighters come alive in a novelistic rejoinder to Ken Kesey’s scab heroes
The novel's heroes are a Finnish immigrant family in Astoria in the early 20th century, exploited as fishers and loggers, who become involved with the IWW.
Union Organizing
Union-made pizza? In Portland, Wobblies serve a fair slice
At Scottie's Pizza in Southeast Portland, workers joined IWW. And Scottie was just fine with that.
Union Organizing
Fast food workers announce union at Little Big Burger chain
A group of Little Big Burger employees — accompanied by over 100 picket-sign-wielding supporters — presented a letter to a Northwest Portland restaurant manager seeking union recognition.
Union Organizing
Gladstone Burgerville becomes the second store to vote in union
The vote was 17 to 5 to unionize with the Burgerville Workers Union, which is affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Workers Rights
Burgerville workers wage one-store Labor Day strike for holiday pay
It's the latest action by the Burgerville Workers Union, which has been campaigning for affordable health benefits and a $5 an hour raise.
Workers Rights
Burgerville pays $10,000 to settle wage and hour violations
Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries found that the company willfully failed to give workers meal and rest breaks as required by law.
Union Organizing
Burgerville union campaign marks one year
Several union supporters have been fired by the company since the campaign launched.
Workers Rights
Burgerville suspends union activist for eating a bagel
A vocal leader of the campaign to unionize the Burgerville fast food chain has been suspended without pay since Jan. 6 — ostensibly for...
Union Organizing
Fast food union empties out Burgerville – on game night
On the night of the Portland Trail Blazers season opening game, a lively protest targeted a Burgerville three blocks from Moda Center.
Union Organizing
Oregon AFL-CIO endorses the Burgerville Workers Union
"Solidarity is a cornerstone of unionism," the resolution declares.
Union Organizing
Burgerville CEO says he’ll meet with union – singly
The union campaign picks up support from local students and the central labor council.
