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Union Organizing
PSU graduate assistants file for union recognition
When it becomes official in about 3 weeks, PSU will have 800 new union members.
Burgers, fries, and a union?
The Burgerville Workers Union is calling for a $5 an hour raise for all hourly employees.
New rule forces union-busters into the daylight
The Department of Labor has eliminated a reporting loophole that lasted 54 years.
Portland-area ADT workers stay nonunion
Possibly spooked by an East Coast lockout, they vote 14-10 not to join IBEW 48
Union drive begins at DirecTV
Up to 400 technicians in Oregon and Washington could join IBEW
Union campaign crushed at Portland Specialty Baking
In three weeks, union support went from 61 percent to 23 percent. Here's what happened.
PSU won’t fight union campaign among its grad students
A memo from school administration orders managers to stay neutral.
Portland Specialty Baking vote results
Workers at Portland Specialty Baking voted yesterday on whether to unionize with Bakers Local 114. The result: 123 no to 38 yes. That's despite...
Workers at Portland Specialty Baking ready for union vote
Taken totally by surprise, company wages an intense — and formulaic — anti-union campaign.
Graduate employees at Portland State form union, ask president for neutrality
Grad student employees are already unionized at UO and OSU.
Hundreds of low-wage Portland airport service workers unionize
The workers help passengers in a wheelchair, handle bags curb-side and help with security lines
Bakers demand union recognition
At an industrial bakery in Gresham, low-wage workers want a union.
City of Portland on track to add hundreds to Rec worker union
Portland Parks & Rec employees look to get $15 and a union.
Gresham-Barlow bus drivers vote out union
OSEA says First Student management interference may have tainted the election.
Two weeks in Alabama
OSEA members say volunteering in the Deep South brings home how precious union rights are
Janus Youth Programs employees vote to join AFSCME
Many workers at the non-profit earn barely above minimum wage.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival files legal objection after stagehands vote to join IATSE
The appeal could add months of delay.
OSEA to help build labor movement in the Deep South
OSEA members will spend two weeks in Alabama helping school employees there unionize
Food Front Cooperative Grocery workers vote to unionize
Workers want the stability of a union contract, pay transparency, and a grievance process
Oregon Shakespeare Festival goes union with IATSE
Backstage crew members kept their union campaign positive.