Union Organizing

Columbia Gorge behavioral health workers join AFSCME

For Oregon AFSCME, it’s an unbroken string of organizing wins at behavioral health agencies.

Union, by the book

Elliott Bay Books in Seattle voluntarily recognized a new union March 13 — one day after employees announced they were forming it.

Citing coronavirus, Trump-appointed NLRB suspends all union elections

Even mail ballots are out, because NLRB agents count them in front of observers; verifying them while maintaining six feet of distance could be a challenge.

At Portland icon Voodoo Doughnuts, workers announce they’ve formed a union

Feeling unsafe at a crowded and stressful donut shop that pays at or near minimum wage, workers have nowhere to go but up.

Even the coronavirus can’t stop union organizing

Immigrant rights group Causa agrees to recognize union immediately. Affordable housing non-profit Casa of Oregon will have to think about it.

A union for bank workers

The bank owned by Tom Steyer, billionaire presidential candidate, agrees to union neutrality.

Safeway.com drivers become the first home grocery delivery workers to unionize

Workers stood strong for their union in the face of union-buster ride-alongs in their trucks.

Workers at Growing Seeds daycare chain announce union campaign

About 75 workers would become part of ILWU Local 5.

More workers go union at Cascadia Behavioral Health

Two more union election wins add 200 to the existing group of 270 mental health and addiction treatment workers who are bargaining a first union contract.

Oregon Democratic Party staff unionizes with Painters

The party voluntarily recognized Sign Painters & Paint Makers Local 1094 in December, and signed a first union contract in early January.

Environmental justice group goes union … on the spot

OPAL executive director Huy Ong didn't think twice when his employees announced they wanted a union.

Boise Cascade busts Carpenters Union campaign in Medford

A union campaign among 375 workers at a pair of southern Oregon plywood mills ended in a crushing union election defeat.

Union campaign at Columbia Sportswear

When warehouse workers started looking at joining the Teamsters, billionaire CEO Tim Boyle came down to the shop floor to try to talk them out of it.

Grand Central Bakery workers join union

Despite appeals from the CEO, workers at the Portland wholesale bakery voted 29-9 to be union-represented.

Union fever spreading at Cascadia Behavioral Health

Last year, 270 Cascadia workers joined AFSCME; now 220 more are on route to joining them.

NLRB: Legacy must recognize union

Legacy Health asked the NLRB to annul a nurse union vote at Unity Behavioral Health, but all three Trump appointees rejected its legal appeal.

At a Eugene environmental group, workers move to unionize

Our Children’s Trust is best known for Juliana v. United States, a lawsuit in which 21 young Americans are suing the federal government for not taking enough action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Alarmed about safety decline, nurses at McMinnville hospital file for a union

Safety has dropped dramatically since for-profit Willamette Valley Medical was acquired by Tennessee-based LifePoint Health last year.

Union campaign goes public at Grand Central Bakery

Workers at the company's Northwest Portland wholesale bakery want to join Bakers Local 114.

Business owners call the union: We want in

Hamer Electric determined there were undeniable advantages to signing up with IBEW Local 48.

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