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Union Organizing

Unions are democratic organizations of workers — united for their own mutual aid and protection and to promote and defend the rights and interests of fellow workers. In the Union Organizing section, we report on efforts to unionize non-union workplaces, and on employer efforts to oppose unionization.

Union Organizing

Strikes shut down all but one Eugene Starbucks

Aug 17, 2022

Within a week, a strike grew from one to seven Starbucks locations in Eugene, Oregon. That meant every union store in the city was on strike.

Union Organizing

Starbucks Portland closure: Timing smacks of union busting

Aug 4, 2022

Workers have been raising safety concerns at a Portland Starbucks for years, but the company only took action days before a union election.

Union Organizing

Workers at Portland pet and garden store go union

Aug 3, 2022

Workers at Fang! Pet & Garden Supply and Salty’s Pet Supply in Portland voted 13-0 to unionize with ILWU Local 5, in ballots counted July 19.

Union Organizing

UPS hires union buster… at unit of five employees

Aug 3, 2022

The parcel delivery giant flew in a Florida-based union buster to try to talk workers out of unionizing with Teamsters Local 670.

Union Organizing

Union votes scheduled at three New Seasons stores

Aug 3, 2022

Workers at New Seasons Market stores in Portland and Hillsboro will be mailed ballots this month for three separate union organizing efforts.

Union Organizing

Bistro workers: We’ve been plucked for too long

Aug 3, 2022

At the French bistro Alouette PDX, under-staffing and a lack of management support proved to be the perfect recipe for workers to launch a union drive.

Union Organizing

Joyful Noise child care workers go union

Jul 18, 2022

Workers at a chain of four child development centers in Portland voted by a three-to-one margin to unionize with ILWU Local 5.

Union Organizing

Hospital workers want into the union in Portland and Pendleton

Jul 18, 2022

The Oregon Nurses Association recently filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board to represent workers at two Oregon hospitals.

Union Organizing

Starbucks union victories continue in Washington

Jul 13, 2022

Workers at a Bellingham Starbucks became the 15th location in Washington to affiliate with Workers United when ballots were counted July 6.

Union Organizing

Bend brew pub union election moves forward

Jul 13, 2022

More than two-dozen workers at Crux Fermentation Project will decide in the coming weeks whether to affiliate with an independent union.

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