Union Organizing

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.

The only union shop around: Tube Art Group sign installers join IBEW 48

Workers at Tube Art Group ratified their first contract last month. It's the first unionized sign installation company since the 1980s.

‘Seizing the memes of production’

A tidal wave of union organizing is sweeping online and print media.

NEXT Renewable Fuels agrees to ‘card-check’ with UFCW #555

A planned green diesel production facility in Clatskanie will likely be union-represented.

Following nine firings, Little Big Burger stays non-union

Workers at Portland burger chain Little Big Burger voted 41 to 29 to stay non-union in an election that the company asked the National Labor Relations Board to hold.

Legacy appeals nurses’ union victory at Unity Center for Behavioral Health

The non-profit hospital chain is rolling the dice hoping the Trump labor board will strike down a union win.

Psychiatric nurses at Legacy’s Unity Center vote overwhelmingly to unionize

Supporters say they want a union in part to create a safer environment for patients and staff.

Veterans nursing home workers vote to stay union

At Veterans Care Centers of Oregon in The Dalles, workers voted 60 to 37 to remain in the United Steelworkers of America.

Little Big Burger, hoping to squash Little Big Union, calls for election

Supporters of the grassroots union say the burger chain has fired several union supporters and is campaigning against the union.

At an autism therapy chain, low-wage therapists unionize

After weeks of comically ineffective pleading by a tone-deaf company CEO and a pair of hired-gun union-busters, over 80 percent of the workers vote union.

Veterans Nursing Home workers join United Steelworkers

A group of 213 workers at a Lebanon, Oregon, nursing home for veterans won a union May 20.

Nurses at Portland’s only psychiatric emergency facility say they want a union

Since it opened in 2017, Unity Center has faced multiple investigations over violations of safety rules.

Four migrant day care centers join Laborers 737

Workers at four non-profit child care centers in Marion and Clackamas counties voted 61 to 56 to unionize with Laborers Local 737.

Veterans nursing home workers re-run union election

A nursing home for veterans held a second union election after management labor violations tainted the first one. The facility, located in Lebanon, Oregon, is...

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