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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

Union-made pizza? In Portland, Wobblies serve a fair slice

Oct 30, 2019

At Scottie’s Pizza in Southeast Portland, workers joined IWW. And Scottie was just fine with that.

Union Organizing

Physicians-in-training unionize at OHSU

Oct 21, 2019

About 830 doctors are about to become members of Oregon AFSCME.

Union Organizing

Union vote scheduled at The Columbian newspaper

Oct 16, 2019

Management at the family-owned paper isn’t mounting the kind of scorched-earth anti-union campaign that some employers use, but is making it clear they hope employees will vote no.

Union Organizing

Journalists unionize at Vancouver newspaper The Columbian

Sep 30, 2019

They love the work they do, and want a union so they can make The Columbian a place they can continue to work.

Union Organizing

Union crushed at Eugene metal distributor Farwest Steel

Sep 18, 2019

When a campaign by United Steelworkers reared its head, the company’s reaction was swift and brutal.

Union Organizing

DePaul treatment center agrees to recognize union

Sep 18, 2019

DePaul Treatment Services, an addiction treatment nonprofit, has voluntarily recognized AFSCME as the union for its 122 employees.

Union Organizing

Medical techs unionize at St. Charles Hospital in Bend

Sep 9, 2019

Despite an anti-union campaign by management, the group of 163 workers voted by a 3-to-1 margin to join OFNHP.

Union Organizing

The only union shop around: Tube Art Group sign installers join IBEW 48

Sep 4, 2019

Workers at Tube Art Group ratified their first contract last month. It’s the first unionized sign installation company since the 1980s.

National

‘Seizing the memes of production’

Aug 16, 2019

A tidal wave of union organizing is sweeping online and print media.

Union Organizing

NEXT Renewable Fuels agrees to ‘card-check’ with UFCW #555

Aug 1, 2019

A planned green diesel production facility in Clatskanie will likely be union-represented.

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