Union Organizing

Cannabis candy makers at Gron Confections in Portland voted 11-2 to join the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 in ballots counted Jan. 8.

Silver Falls School District bus drivers voted 23-4 to join the Teamsters Local 324 in ballots counted Jan. 9.

Over 600 nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician associates are joining Oregon Nurses Association.

Bend solid waste workers are set to vote in-person on Jan. 11. Workers in Redmond have also asked for a union election.

The California Legoland theme park is fighting an attempt by ride technicians to join the Machinists union.

Not a dime of investors' fat payday was shared with the pipefitters who make the products the company sells.

Doughnut Workers United has requested a union certification election at Blue Star Donuts, a chain with six Portland-area stores.

Support was overwhelming in the votes to join the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, a union for physicians that formed in 2015.

They’ll now be part of a bargaining unit of 3,922 student workers with jobs in the libraries, dorms, dining halls, and recreation centers.

The two publications are owned by EO Media Group, a private family-owned company that runs 15 newspapers and two magazines in Oregon.

If at least half sign cards within six months, state law requires OHSU to recognize a union for about 2,000 workers in its laboratories.

Reed housing advisors previously formed an independent union in 2018, but the college refused to recognize the union and filed legal appeals.

All told, 235 doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants would unionize at all eight hospitals.

Ridwell provides curbside collection of hard to recycle items like batteries, plastic clamshell containers, lightbulbs, and more.

Represented by IBEW Local 89, the new unit includes six funeral directors and office coordinators at Neptune Cremation in Happy Valley.

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.