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Union Organizing

Wave of unionization sweeps through Washington newspapers

Five Washington newspapers have unionized recently, the latest in a nationwide surge among print and online journalists under way since 2015.
Workers Rights

Government report says NLRB is understaffed

According to a March 29 report, the drop has been dramatic. Since 2010 the NLRB has lost 452 employees, or 26%.
Workers Rights

NLRB drops Trump rule that would have blocked graduate student unions

Trump NLRB appointees had declared that student teaching assistants aren't employees under the National Labor Relations Act.
National

A fix for America’s broken labor law

Congress may soon consider the most game-changing pro-union legislation in 80 years. The PRO Act would restore workers’ right to unionize.
National

New NLRB acting attorney backs off lawsuit against Scabby the Rat

The previous general counsel, a management-side labor lawyer appointed by Trump, tried to muzzle Scabby the Rat as soon as he took office.
Workers Rights

Secret audio shows Columbia Sportswear plot to fire unionist

In the recordings, managers list the names of union supporters they want to fire and talk about how to build a case that will stand up to NLRB scrutiny.
Workers Rights

Trump NLRB sues Oregon to preserve employers right to hold mandatory anti-union meetings

On July 14 a federal court will hear the government's challenge to the state law, which was passed in 2009.
Union Organizing

Citing coronavirus, Trump-appointed NLRB suspends all union elections

Even mail ballots are out, because NLRB agents count them in front of observers; verifying them while maintaining six feet of distance could be a challenge.
Workers Rights

CNN pays $76 million to settle union-busting complaint

It’s the biggest settlement in the 84-year history of the National Labor Relations Board.
Union Organizing

Veterans Nursing Home workers join United Steelworkers

A group of 213 workers at a Lebanon, Oregon, nursing home for veterans won a union May 20.
Workers Rights

Trump appointee wants to ban Scabby the Rat

Standing 25 feet tall, with scary red eyes and yellow fangs, Scabby the Rat is a union hero and an eye-catching sign of a labor dispute.
Union Organizing

Machinists win toehold at Boeing South Carolina plant

South Carolina is the least-unionized state in the nation, with just 2.6 percent of workers in a union, and its governor wants to keep it that way.
Union Organizing

Burgerville Workers Union expects to call for a union election

If a majority votes yes at the 92nd and Powell location, it could be the nation's first official union at a fast food chain.
National

Trump NLRB majority moves fast to reverse Obama-era decisions

In just three months, the new Board has reversed major gains.
Workers Rights

Trump NLRB majority puts Machinists election win at Precision Castparts back in legal limbo

The ruling has national ramifications, but whether the welders can unionize is again up to the Seattle NLRB office.
Workers Rights

Operating Engineers Local 701 picket at Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant

A new complaint says a contractor, Veolia North America, broke federal labor law.
Worker safety

Abhe & Svoboda fires union salt amid safety complaints

Nonunion paint contractor Abhe & Svoboda faces civil rights, labor and safety complaints on a $22 million Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) painting project underneath the Ross Island Bridge.
Workers Rights

Toothless law: 3 years in, still no penalty for flagrant unionbuster

The three-year legal saga of a local union-busting paint contractor shows how weak U.S. labor law can be.
Collective bargaining

KGW-TV on trial for labor violation

KGW wants an end to union jurisdiction, but won't show why it needs that
Union Organizing

Workers at Portland Specialty Baking ready for union vote

Taken totally by surprise, company wages an intense — and formulaic — anti-union campaign.
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