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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

Oregon legislative staffers unionize with IBEW 89

Dec 16, 2020

It’s the first union of legislative staff in the country. The 110 employees work for both Democratic and Republican legislators.

Union Organizing

A union for Oregon legislative staff?

Dec 2, 2020

Oregon legislative aides are seeking to unionize with IBEW Local 89 in what could be the first union of legislative staff in the nation.

Union Organizing

OHSU Hillsboro hospital fights union campaign

Nov 3, 2020

A group of 472 hospital workers Hillsboro is ready to join Oregon AFSCME. But first they had to get straight who they actually work for.

Union Organizing

Musical theater, when it reopens, will be union

Nov 3, 2020

Stumptown Stages reclassified actors and musicians as employees, and recognized Musicians Local 99 to represent its musicians.

Union Organizing

Lebanon Veterans Home workers stay union

Oct 5, 2020

A year after unionizing, with no first union contract signed, some were ready to dump the union, but the majority voted to stay the course.

Union Organizing

Lebanon veterans home faces decertification campaign

Aug 6, 2020

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.

Union Organizing

Enviro nonprofit would rather lay off all staff than deal with union

Aug 4, 2020

The Center for Sustainable Economy dropped antiunion Ballard Law and agreed to recognize the union. Then came its “restructure” announcement.

Union Organizing

McMinnville rubber plant workers vote to go nonunion

Jul 17, 2020

Despite gains in their one-and-only union contract, workers at RB Rubber voted July 17 to decertify the United Steelworkers.

Union Organizing

Climate justice group goes antiunion

Jul 14, 2020

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.

Union Organizing

Columbia Gorge behavioral health workers join AFSCME

Jul 1, 2020

For Oregon AFSCME, it’s an unbroken string of organizing wins at behavioral health agencies.

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