Union Organizing

It's the first foreign-owned auto plant in the United States to unionize, and dozens of others may be coming.

The unit will include workers who conduct lab experiments, order equipment, file paperwork, and care for animals used in studies.

Teamsters Local 305 has launched a union campaign for undertakers employed by Service Corporation International in Oregon and Washington.

Guidepost Montessori closed two preschools and furloughed nearly 30 workers after workers announced plans to unionize with ILWU Local 5.

The unit would include audiologists, pharmacists, counselors, dieticians, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, and others.

More than 400 health care lab workers at Lab Corporation of America in Oregon and Washington will vote this May whether to join the OFNHP.

Oregon Public Broadcasting and KMHD Jazz Radio voluntarily recognized SAG-AFTRA as the union for 65 on-air staff, hosts, and reporters.

Musicians Local 99 seeks to represent 34 teachers and staff at the center, a non-profit children's music school in North Portland.

In a letter sent to the NLRB, the union acknowledged it no longer had the support of a majority of the restaurant’s 18 workers.

Portland's Musicians Local 99 recognized ILWU Local 5 as the bargaining representative for its two union staffers.

Workers at HIS Innovations Group make $3 to $9 an hour below equivalent union members, but rejected unionization in a 4-5 vote on Feb. 22.

An extraordinary wave of union organizing in the Legacy Health system continued in recent weeks, with three more units voting to unionize.

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So far the incentive program has paid out $198,000 to about 81 union members and the 116 new recruits they referred.

Up to now Laughing Planet has cultivated a progressive reputation. But when its own employees asked for union recognition, it declined.

Doughnut Workers United appears to have fallen short in its effort to unionize Blue Star Donuts’ Portland-area locations.

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.