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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

Boise Cascade busts Carpenters Union campaign in Medford

Jan 15, 2020

A union campaign among 375 workers at a pair of southern Oregon plywood mills ended in a crushing union election defeat.

Union Organizing

Union campaign at Columbia Sportswear

Jan 2, 2020

When warehouse workers started looking at joining the Teamsters, billionaire CEO Tim Boyle came down to the shop floor to try to talk them out of it.

Union Organizing

Grand Central Bakery workers join union

Dec 18, 2019

Despite appeals from the CEO, workers at the Portland wholesale bakery voted 29-9 to be union-represented.

Union Organizing

Union fever spreading at Cascadia Behavioral Health

Dec 18, 2019

Last year, 270 Cascadia workers joined AFSCME; now 220 more are on route to joining them.

Union Organizing

NLRB: Legacy must recognize union

Dec 4, 2019

Legacy Health asked the NLRB to annul a nurse union vote at Unity Behavioral Health, but all three Trump appointees rejected its legal appeal.

Union Organizing

At a Eugene environmental group, workers move to unionize

Dec 4, 2019

Our Children’s Trust is best known for Juliana v. United States, a lawsuit in which 21 young Americans are suing the federal government for not taking enough action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Union Organizing

Alarmed about safety decline, nurses at McMinnville hospital file for a union

Nov 22, 2019

Safety has dropped dramatically since for-profit Willamette Valley Medical was acquired by Tennessee-based LifePoint Health last year.

Union Organizing

Union campaign goes public at Grand Central Bakery

Nov 22, 2019

Workers at the company’s Northwest Portland wholesale bakery want to join Bakers Local 114.

Union Organizing

Business owners call the union: We want in

Nov 15, 2019

Hamer Electric determined there were undeniable advantages to signing up with IBEW Local 48.

Union Organizing

Journalists at The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver vote overwhelmingly to unionize

Oct 31, 2019

The union vote comes as part of an extraordinary wave of unionization in print and online media.

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