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Schoolhouse Electric
Collective bargaining
Schoolhouse Electric signs first union contract with IBEW 48
The three-year agreement sets starting wages at $20 an hour, up from $18 an hour, and provides overtime pay after 8 hours in a day.
Union Organizing
Union busters file disclosures at Schoolhouse Electric
Whatever they were paid, the consultants failed in their mission: Workers voted to unionize with IBEW Local 48 in August.
Union Organizing
Schoolhouse Electric workers join IBEW
The vote establishes a new bargaining unit of 71 workers at the Schoolhouse facility in Northwest Portland.
Union Organizing
Schoolhouse Electric hires unionbusters
Eight months after Portland home goods maker Schoolhouse was sold to a new owner, its workers are ready for a union.
