Precision Castparts Archives

The vote brings a five-year saga to a close in which company lawyers stonewalled union supporters at every turn.

The Milwaukie, Oregon-based company never accepted a 2017 vote by its welders to join the Machinists union.

Precision—a key Boeing supplier—has lost its marathon effort to avoid recognizing the choice of a group of welders to unionize.

Updates on the union campaigns at Precision Castparts, New Seasons, and Reed College, plus President Trump’s “infrastructure Neverland”

The case went all the way to Washington, DC, and back, along the way overturning a major Obama-era NLRB ruling.

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

The company hopes a new Trump-appointed NLRB majority will vindicate its lawlessness.

Union Organizing

A “micro-unit” wins at a company where four previous union campaigns failed.

Union Organizing

A union win Sept. 22 would be the first at one of the area’s largest nonunion industrial employers.

Union Organizing

This time, they seek to represent a group of 102 welders.