Union Organizing

Workers pay to go to Volvo mechanic school hoping for a well-paying job, but end up making near minimum wage, and buying their own tools.

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.”

The union that Vancouver’s daily newspaper journalists cheerfully announced in 2019 is no more.

After 21 months of supposed negotiations, The Columbian is asking the National Labor Relations Board to hold a new union election.

Working long hours in unsafe conditions for near minimum wage, a crew of Vancouver sheet metal workers vote to unionize.

The publicly funded homeless nonprofit Central City Concern just beat back a union campaign. Multnomah County Commissioners are concerned.

A recent vote adds 61 workers at Lifeworks NW' Hawthorn Clinic to Oregon AFSCME, part of a wave of union organizing in behavioral health.

Oregon’s Democratic and Republican state legislators may not agree on much, but their staff agree on something big: They want a union.

The 101 workers will next bargain a contract. Except for police and fire, the rest of the City of Hillsboro’s workforce remains non-union.

Newsroom staff at The Daily News in Longview, Washington voted 6-0 to unionize with the NewsGuild in mail ballots counted May 14.

Oregon AFSCME will work to win better pay and standards for about 500 medical interpreters—those who translate for Medicaid patients.