Union Organizing

The unit includes 14 workers at a statewide nonprofit that protects renters and homeowners from discrimination.

Forty-four housing advisers who live and work in dorms are unionizing after Reed changed their job duties without giving them a say.

Workers at Elysian Brewing Co. in Seattle voted 20-12 to join Teamsters Local 117. It's one of just a handful of unionized craft breweries.

Buffalo Exchange hired Tonkon Torp, a Portland-based law firm that says it offers help with “union avoidance.”

Strippers at Magic Tavern voted 16-0 to unionize with the Actors’ Equity Association, which represents stage actors and performers.

The workers voted 10-0 to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 in a Sept. 1 vote held in the employee break room.

Workers told the company they'd be holding a “safety strike” and would go home if they didn’t want to work in excessive heat.

As of last month, every wheelchair attendant at Portland International Airport belongs to a union — SEIU Local 49.

Affiliate CWA opposed the merger but changed its stance in June 2022 after Microsoft signed a union neutrality pledge.

A unit of 712 workers will be represented by City of Portland Professional Workers Union (CPPW) — thanks to a 306-68 vote tallied June 6.

Workers at the nonprofit Friends of the Children Portland voted 40-3 to join AFT-Oregon in mail ballots counted June 1.

The tally was 69 to 12 to join Oregon AFSCME. The workers provide meals, showers, and internet to young people, and help with housing or work.

About 20 workers at nonprofit Community Cycling Center in Portland have organized as an affiliate of ILWU Local 5.

On April 7, a majority of about 240 eligible “postdoc” research staff signed union authorization cards and asked for a union election.

Oregon Nurses Association has asked the NLRB to hold a union election among 250 health techs at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.

Musicians asked the non-profit's board to voluntarily recognize their union, American Federation of Musicians Local 99.

Nearly 700 workers are moving toward a vote on whether to unionize with City of Portland Professional Workers, a newly formed union.

About 165 workers at Providence Home Health and Hospice have joined the Oregon Nurses Association after a 123-31 vote April 14.

The union-busting coffee giant sees a strike wave, an adverse legal ruling, and its leader hauled before a Senate Committee.

The group pairs kids with paid mentors for at least 12 years. Mentors, called friends, spend three to four hours a week with 8 to 10 children.