Union Organizing Archives

The unit consists of about 300 quality-assurance testers at the company’s videogame unit, ZeniMax, which it acquired in 2021.

With the Cedar Hills store, the New Seasons Labor Union now represents more than 900 workers in the Portland metro area.

The union election will cover all stagehands and production workers at the Northwest Portland dance studio.

When the election was held in the Corvallis store Jan. 19, the union had just 2 votes in favor, and 11 votes against.

Teamsters Local 206 is organizing a group of 14 workers at Tigard-based Yecuris, which transplants human liver cells into mice for lab research.

The City of Portland Professional Workers Union would represent about 870 workers, the last big group of City employees who are not yet unionized.

In construction, when contractors sign on to the union, that means they can ‘unsign’ later. But not if workers have a say.

Workers at the Arbor Lodge grocery store in North Portland voted 71-23 to join the independent union, and another election is later this month.

The unanimous vote marks the first win for Restaurant Workers of Portland, which launched along with the Afuri campaign.

After a six-day strike, workers filed a National Labor Relations Board petition, seeking to affiliate with the newly formed United Cinema Workers.