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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

Bus drivers unionize at Columbia County’s CC Rider

Oct 4, 2018

Low pay is the biggest issue for drivers who provide bus service between Clatskanie, Rainier, St. Helens, Scappoose, and Vernonia.

Union Organizing

OHSU grad students unionize with AFSCME

Sep 5, 2018

Union authorization cards signed by a majority of the 250 students were submitted Aug. 29.

Union Organizing

North coast bus drivers unionize

Aug 22, 2018

A group of 20 underpaid drivers and mechanics in Astoria and Warrenton Oregon have joined ATU Local 757.

Union Organizing

Chain-owned Clackamas pet hospital votes narrowly to unionize

Jul 12, 2018

After Mars Petcare swallows up giant VCA chain, workers vote to join ILWU.

Union Organizing

Tillamook Cheese maintenance techs go non-union

Jul 12, 2018

About 250 production workers at the facility continue to be represented by Teamsters Local 58.

Union Organizing

At Providence Milwaukie hospital, support workers go union

Jul 5, 2018

Workers voted 92-54 to join SEIU Local 49.

Union Organizing

Faculty unionize at OSU and OIT

Jun 12, 2018

Oregon’s labor movement just grew by 2,500 new members.

Union Organizing

Unionization is sweeping the media

Jun 12, 2018

A wave of worker organizing is taking place in print and online media in search of greater job security.

Union Organizing

Machinists win toehold at Boeing South Carolina plant

Jun 11, 2018

South Carolina is the least-unionized state in the nation, with just 2.6 percent of workers in a union, and its governor wants to keep it that way.

Union Organizing

What did New Seasons pay union busters? We’ll have to wait another year to find out

May 29, 2018

One worker wanted to know why fees New Seasons paid to a union avoidance consultant hadn’t been disclosed, as required by federal law. So he called the union-buster.

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