Union Organizing

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.

Journalists at The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver vote overwhelmingly to unionize

The union vote comes as part of an extraordinary wave of unionization in print and online media.

Union-made pizza? In Portland, Wobblies serve a fair slice

At Scottie's Pizza in Southeast Portland, workers joined IWW. And Scottie was just fine with that.

Physicians-in-training unionize at OHSU

About 830 doctors are about to become members of Oregon AFSCME.

Union vote scheduled at The Columbian newspaper

Management at the family-owned paper isn’t mounting the kind of scorched-earth anti-union campaign that some employers use, but is making it clear they hope employees will vote no.

Journalists unionize at Vancouver newspaper The Columbian

They love the work they do, and want a union so they can make The Columbian a place they can continue to work.

Union crushed at Eugene metal distributor Farwest Steel

When a campaign by United Steelworkers reared its head, the company’s reaction was swift and brutal.

DePaul treatment center agrees to recognize union

DePaul Treatment Services, an addiction treatment nonprofit, has voluntarily recognized AFSCME as the union for its 122 employees.

Medical techs unionize at St. Charles Hospital in Bend

Despite an anti-union campaign by management, the group of 163 workers voted by a 3-to-1 margin to join OFNHP.

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