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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. 
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.
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