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Union Organizing

Unions are democratic organizations of workers — united for their own mutual aid and protection and to promote and defend the rights and interests of fellow workers. In the Union Organizing section, we report on efforts to unionize non-union workplaces, and on employer efforts to oppose unionization.

Union Organizing

Union vote set for Oregon legislative aides

May 4, 2021

Ballots will be counted May 28 to determine if a group of 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers want a union.

Union Organizing

Staff at the Oregon Legislature can unionize, Board rules

Apr 14, 2021

Plans can now go forward for a union election among roughly 180 legislative assistants who work for individual Oregon lawmakers.

Union Organizing

Amazon workers reject union

Apr 14, 2021

At the Bessemer “fulfillment center” workers rejected the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union 738 to 1,798.

Union Organizing

Lifeworks NW workers file for union election

Apr 14, 2021

A group of about 60 workers at a Hillsboro mental health and substance abuse crisis center is ready to join Oregon AFSCME.

Union Organizing

Wave of unionization sweeps through Washington newspapers

Mar 31, 2021

Five Washington newspapers have unionized recently, the latest in a nationwide surge among print and online journalists under way since 2015.

Union Organizing

Springfield nursing home strike ends with mass resignation

Mar 3, 2021

After 23 residents died in nine weeks, workers struck for two weeks to demand union recognition. The nursing home’s investor owners refused.

Union Organizing

Hundreds of unrepresented City of Portland workers get a chance to unionize

Feb 17, 2021

City attorneys and HR managers, opposing a union effort by three workers, ended up opening the door to a union for workers across the city.

Union Organizing

Oregon Justice Department says legislative workers can’t unionize

Jan 12, 2021

Legislative aides don’t have the right to unionize after all, says Oregon’s Attorney General in objections on behalf of the Legislature.

Union Organizing

OHSU Hillsboro hospital workers unionize

Jan 12, 2021

The group of 448 workers voted more than 2-1 to unionize with Oregon AFSCME. The hospital says it will work collaboratively with the union.

Union Organizing

Workers unionize at So Delicious Dairy Free

Dec 30, 2020

A subsidiary of French multinational Danone voluntarily recognized the Teamsters after a campaign without employer interference.

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