Union Organizing

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.

Veterans Nursing Home workers join USW

The union win took place in a "re-run" vote after an earlier election was tainted by management lawlessness.

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...

New Seasons Market paid a union-buster a third of a million dollars

The total bill may have been higher, because the rules don't require disclosure for anti-union trainings of managers and supervisors.

Refugee nonprofit won’t be union-neutral

IRCO rejects AFSCME’s play-nice request and fires a union supporter.

Two more shops vote to join Burgerville Workers Union

Workers at the Montavilla and Convention Center restaurants have officially voted to unionize.

America’s top union leader pops into Portland

National AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka was in Portland for an Organizing Summit — a training for unionists on organizing tactics, messaging around common sense economics, and how to build worker power in the wake of the Supreme Court’s anti-union Janus decision.

Clackamas pet hospital goes union

The NLRB has certified that ILWU Local 5 won last year's representation election at VCA Northwest Veterinary Specialists — by a one-vote margin

Fast food workers announce union at Little Big Burger chain

A group of Little Big Burger employees — accompanied by over 100 picket-sign-wielding supporters — presented a letter to a Northwest Portland restaurant manager seeking union recognition.

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