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Gillespie, a former president of Oregon AFSCME, served Oregon working people and Eugene residents for more than three decades.

Things aren’t ‘all good’ at All Good Northwest, which runs tiny house villages for the homeless in Portland.

In ballots counted June 2, a group of 46 employees who operate tiny house villages for the homeless in Portland voted 15-3 to unionize.

Ralph Groener, a lobbyist for AFSCME for 28 years, had a knack for being in the right place at the right time.

Weeks before a union ballot count at Portland homeless services provider All Good NW, the nonprofit decided to close one of its villages.

The Oregon AFSCME Executive Board has named one of its members, Fred Yungbluth, Jr. as president until the union’s April 2023 convention.

A local AFSCME affiliate and its Oregon statewide council are contributing $10,000 to support the independent Amazon Labor Union.

So-called “safe rest villages” in Portland are highly unsafe for staffers, leading workers to seek union representation with AFSCME.

More than 160 employees of nonprofit behavioral health provider Lines for Life are now members of AFSCME Local 1790.

After 16 months of negotiating, employees of the Mid-Columbia Center for Living will see pay increases totaling 13% over the next three years.