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Union Organizing

Workers at Portland Specialty Baking ready for union vote

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

Ironworker strike now in Month 8

Strikers are hoping for vindication from the National Labor Relations Board.
Workers Rights

NLRB: No more hiding behind temp agencies to avoid unions

Companies have increasingly hired outside staffing agencies in recent decades.
Union Organizing

Oregon Shakespeare Festival files legal objection after stagehands vote to join IATSE

The appeal could add months of delay.
Collective bargaining

Machinists at Bodycote battle for first contract

Camas Bodycote workers voted last June to unionize, but are still trying to get a first contract
Union Organizing

Baggage handlers at PDX vote to join Machinists Union

Workers at ABM Onsite Services West cite low wages, lack of training, and job safety
Collective bargaining

Machinists conduct informational picket at Bodycote in Camas

Workers are having a tough time getting a first union contract
Workers Rights

Amid union activity, Grand Central Baking closes cafe

Laborers Local 483 says Sawtooth Cafe closed early after an employee protest
Collective bargaining

Swan Island shipyard workers reject contract offers

The unions also win an unfair labor practice charge at Vigor Shipyard
Collective bargaining

Support workers strike at for-profit hospital in Springfield

SEIU Local 49 accuses McKenzie-Willamette of further labor law violations
Workers Rights

Federal judge orders employer to hire seven union painters

Edwards Painting violated federal labor law 18 separate ways.
Workers Rights

Shipyard workers picket smoking ban

Shipyard workers at six Vigor worksites protest imposition of smoking ban without consulting union
Workers Rights

Supreme Court decision in Harris v Quinn creates “right-to-work” situation for home care workers

Noel Canning, a separate decision, will create bureaucratic headache for the NLRB.
Workers Rights

Painting contractor tells NLRB he would rather close up shop than go union

Company owner represents himself in five-day trial
Collective bargaining

CWA gets bare-bones contract with Fund for the Public Interest

Rules at the PIRG fundraiser will be slightly less draconian under the first-ever union agreement.
Workers Rights

Judge rules PIRG call center fired worker for union activism

The Fund for the Public Interest is ordered to reinstate David Neal with back pay
Workers Rights

PIRG fundraising group on trial for labor violations

Fund for the Public Interest managers tell a judge that firing David Neal was business as usual.
Comment

Without filibuster reform, worker rights will wither

Employers are increasingly lawless as the NLRB sits vacant
Union Organizing

Bakers Union organizing video lottery delis one at a time

"Lottery delis" rake it in with video poker, but pay minimum wage with no benefits
Workers Rights

‘Like’ this: Workers’ rights get an update in the age of social media

NLRB is trying to defend workers protected speech online
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