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.

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.