Union Organizing Archives

At Lines For Life, a Portland nonprofit led by former U.S. attorney Dwight Holton, a strong majority of the 160 employees want a union.

A group of 16 scenic and prop shop workers has joined their fellow production workers as members of IATSE Local 154.

Since Dec. 8-9, when Starbucks workers in Buffalo voted to unionize, workers at nearly a dozen other stores have filed for union elections.

Amazon’s “flagrant disregard” for labor law was so egregious that a new election must be held at its distribution center in Bessemer.

Thirty down, 235,000 to go. On Dec. 9, mail ballots showed that workers at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York voted 19 to 8 to unionize.

Since a private equity firm bought the mill from Weyerhaeuser, the company has cut wages and halted retirement contributions.

Workers at Portland-based Image Comics announced Nov. 1 that they’re forming a union Comic Book Workers United.

Workers at the nonprofit SE Portland daycare and preschool are now represented by ILWU Local 5, which also represents Growing Seeds.

The vote result — more than 10 to 1 for the union — is an absolute smackdown to union-busters and the managers who hired them.

Another ‘progressive’ business shows its true colors. “It was the anti-union campaign I would expect from a company like Walmart or Amazon.”