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Union Organizing
Lebanon veterans home faces decertification campaign
Fifteen months after voting to unionize, a group of 200 workers at the Oregon Veterans Home in Lebanon, Oregon, will vote Aug. 27 on whether to stay union.
Enviro nonprofit would rather lay off all staff than deal with union
The Center for Sustainable Economy dropped antiunion Ballard Law and agreed to recognize the union. Then came its "restructure" announcement.
McMinnville rubber plant workers vote to go nonunion
Despite gains in their one-and-only union contract, workers at RB Rubber voted July 17 to decertify the United Steelworkers.
Climate justice group goes antiunion
When workers at the Center for Sustainable Economy announced their union, the last thing they expected was to be confronted by a union-busting law firm.
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.
