Union Organizing

The union defeat came three weeks after the government contractor paid union-busters to talk to its workers.

The Portland Metal Trades thought they had a deal. Then they were ghosted by the startup manufacturer of modular housing.

The Pharmacy Guild is a new union affiliated with the healthcare arm of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

The stagehands are employees of concert promoter Monqui Presents, which is a major force in the Pacific Northwest music industry.

Gunderson workers were represented by Boilermakers and other unions until the 1980s. Today, wages and benefits lag behind the union standard.

They join a union that also represents workers at homeless service providers Central City Concern, Transition Projects, and Home Forward.

The Sept. 12 union vote doubles the number of workers represented by AFSCME Local 88 at the homeless service nonprofit.

The workers provide services to the homeless. They want higher wages, more robust staffing, and mental health support.

AFSCME Local 88-1 is asking the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election for about 450 workers at Central City Concern.

For three nights in late July, 115 volunteers knocked on the doors of over 650 non-union electricians to invite them to join IBEW Local 48.

A Portland factory making modular housing sections in the Swan Island Industrial Area has committed to a union neutrality agreement.

The union vote among amusement ride operators was 4 to 26, and less than half of the 66 workers who were eligible to vote cast ballots.

Workers at the combination craft workshop and bar asked the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election. The NLRB said no.

Workers at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland have continued to unionize since the first group of 71 joined IATSE Local 154 in 2015.

UAW is challenging the vote result in filings with the NLRB, saying Mercedes illegally interfered with the election.

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.