Union Organizing

The Public Employment Relations Commission will schedule elections to determine if the unions have majority support of their respective units.

Some ballots had been challenged by the employer, and the union asked the NLRB to count those votes and possibly reverse the election results.

With all but one of 35 eligible workers casting ballots, the vote was 12-22 for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555.

Legacy Health System contracted out its labs to LabCorp. Now 435 lab workers who used to work at Legacy are union-represented.

The union campaign was in part a response to recent instability and funding problems. It's only the second unionized music school in the U.S.

The campaign aims to unionize local workers at the largest provider of funeral and cemetery services in North America.

Workers at the local breakfast sandwich chain will vote whether to unionize as an affiliate of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

A wave of unionization is taking place among police sergeants around Oregon, thanks to new state legislation.

It's the first foreign-owned auto plant in the United States to unionize, and dozens of others may be coming.

The unit will include workers who conduct lab experiments, order equipment, file paperwork, and care for animals used in studies.

Teamsters Local 305 has launched a union campaign for undertakers employed by Service Corporation International in Oregon and Washington.

Guidepost Montessori closed two preschools and furloughed nearly 30 workers after workers announced plans to unionize with ILWU Local 5.

The unit would include audiologists, pharmacists, counselors, dieticians, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, and others.

More than 400 health care lab workers at Lab Corporation of America in Oregon and Washington will vote this May whether to join the OFNHP.

Oregon Public Broadcasting and KMHD Jazz Radio voluntarily recognized SAG-AFTRA as the union for 65 on-air staff, hosts, and reporters.

Musicians Local 99 seeks to represent 34 teachers and staff at the center, a non-profit children's music school in North Portland.

In a letter sent to the NLRB, the union acknowledged it no longer had the support of a majority of the restaurant’s 18 workers.

Portland's Musicians Local 99 recognized ILWU Local 5 as the bargaining representative for its two union staffers.

Workers at HIS Innovations Group make $3 to $9 an hour below equivalent union members, but rejected unionization in a 4-5 vote on Feb. 22.

An extraordinary wave of union organizing in the Legacy Health system continued in recent weeks, with three more units voting to unionize.