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Precision Castparts
Union Organizing
Welders decertify union at Precision Castparts
The vote brings a five-year saga to a close in which company lawyers stonewalled union supporters at every turn.
Collective bargaining
Union busters file for decertification at Precision Castparts
The Milwaukie, Oregon-based company never accepted a 2017 vote by its welders to join the Machinists union.
Workers Rights
Precision Castparts must recognize Machinists Union
Precision—a key Boeing supplier—has lost its marathon effort to avoid recognizing the choice of a group of welders to unionize.
Union Organizing
THE REST OF THE STORY: A look back at some of the stories we reported in 2018 … and what happened afterward
Updates on the union campaigns at Precision Castparts, New Seasons, and Reed College, plus President Trump's "infrastructure Neverland"
Union Organizing
Yes, welders can unionize at Precision Castparts, NLRB rules
The case went all the way to Washington, DC, and back, along the way overturning a major Obama-era NLRB ruling.
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
Precision Castparts still refusing to recognize Machinist union
The company hopes a new Trump-appointed NLRB majority will vindicate its lawlessness.
Union Organizing
Welders at Precision Castparts vote to join Machinists union
A "micro-unit" wins at a company where four previous union campaigns failed.
Union Organizing
Machinists win the right to union election for welders at Precision Castparts
A union win Sept. 22 would be the first at one of the area’s largest nonunion industrial employers.
Union Organizing
At Precision Castparts, Machinists campaign to organize ‘micro-union’
This time, they seek to represent a group of 102 welders.
Collective bargaining
Machinists conduct informational picket at Bodycote in Camas
Workers are having a tough time getting a first union contract
Union Organizing
Precision Castparts workers vote to stay non-union
The vote on whether to join Machinists is 932-1,258
