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Schoolhouse Electric
Jobs
Schoolhouse Electric lays off Local 48 members as Food52 files for bankruptcy
Food52 hopes to sell to America’s Test Kitchen, which could include the Portland maker light fixtures and home furnishings.
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.
