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Reed College
Analysis
2025: The rest of the story
Since the start of 2025, we’ve reported over 400 stories. Here's an update about what’s happened since we last reported on some of them.
Collective bargaining
Reed campus rallies for custodians
Reed College custodians are without a new union contract, and the sticking point is a stumper: a proposal that sounds uncontroversial.
Collective bargaining
At Reed College still no union contract after a year
The workers currently make $17,260 per year, which after taxes is less than the cost of the room and board in the dorms where they work.
Union Organizing
Reed College workers vote to join OPEIU Local 11
Reed housing advisors previously formed an independent union in 2018, but the college refused to recognize the union and filed legal appeals.
Union Organizing
Reed College student workers want to join OPEIU Local 11
Forty-four housing advisers who live and work in dorms are unionizing after Reed changed their job duties without giving them a say.
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
At Reed College, students are unionizing
In the dorms, a new independent union of residential advisors wants greater security and improved compensation.
