Union Organizing

Comic book workers of the world, unite!

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

Daycare workers at Wild Lilac unionize

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

Hospital techs in The Dalles join OFNHP-AFT Local 5017

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

Imperfect Foods busts union

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

NewsGuild walks away from The Columbian

HAPPIER DAYS: Reporters and photographers unionized hoping to make working at The Columbian sustainable for the long term, but in bargaining, the company said no to every proposal workers put forward.

Vancouver’s daily newspaper moves to get rid of its union

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

Nowhere to go but up: Vancouver sheet metal workers win a union

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

Homeless nonprofit. Union-buster.

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

Hillsboro clinic the latest to unionize with AFSCME

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 legislative aides become first in nation to unionize

"Local 89. Local 89. No representation. Local 89." One by one, Oregon Employment Relations Board election coordinator Sabrina Dunsworth examined, displayed, and announced the vote, which took place live via Zoom May 28.

Workers at Hillsboro library join AFSCME

BY THE BOOK CAMPAIGN: Unlike for private sector workers covered under federal law, Oregon law makes getting a union for public workers—like those at Hillsboro’s Shute Park library, above—as easy as signing cards.

Longview news reporters go union

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

Medical interpreters unite

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

Union vote set for Oregon legislative aides

Ballots will be counted May 28 to determine if a group of 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers want a union.

Staff at the Oregon Legislature can unionize, Board rules

Plans can now go forward for a union election among roughly 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers.

Amazon workers reject union

At the Bessemer "fulfillment center" workers rejected the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union 738 to 1,798.

Lifeworks NW workers file for union election

A group of about 60 workers at a Hillsboro mental health and substance abuse crisis center is ready to join Oregon AFSCME.

Wave of unionization sweeps through Washington newspapers

Five Washington newspapers have unionized recently, the latest in a nationwide surge among print and online journalists under way since 2015.

Springfield nursing home strike ends with mass resignation

After 23 residents died in nine weeks, workers struck for two weeks to demand union recognition. The nursing home's investor owners refused.

Hundreds of unrepresented City of Portland workers get a chance to unionize

City attorneys and HR managers, opposing a union effort by three workers, ended up opening the door to a union for workers across the city.

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