Union Organizing

More than two-dozen workers at Crux Fermentation Project will decide in the coming weeks whether to affiliate with an independent union.

Workers at two Verizon Express stores in Northwest Portland announced a union campaign July 6 with Communications Workers of America (CWA).

19 Starbucks in Oregon have voted to unionize since April 2022, including stores in Eugene, Portland, Beaverton, Gresham, and Happy Valley.

At Gresham cannabis grower CBN Holdings, a strike for union recognition has dragged on without result, and workers have had to find new jobs.

The two units, some of the last remaining nonunion, would bring 145 new members to Machinists District Lodge W24.

An Apple retail store in Towson, Maryland, in June became the first Apple store in the country to unionize.

A start-up union formed by workers at New Seasons Market on Southeast Division Street in Portland is organizing at a second location.

Workers United has won union elections at all 11 Portland-area Starbucks stores where ballots have been counted.

A newly formed union has requested a union election among 304 medical professionals St. Charles Medical Group.

Workers at Portland-based Joyful Noise Child Development Centers have launched a union drive to join ILWU Local 5.

Mechanics and lube technicians at a Portland Volvo dealership voted 7 to 3 to be represented by the Machinists District Lodge W24.

In April, New Seasons changed attendance, scheduling and paid leave policies. In May, workers launched a union campaign.

Workers at four more Portland-area Starbucks stores voted to unionize with Starbucks Workers United over the past two weeks.

Workers at Portland’s Fang! Pet & Garden Supply delivered a letter to the business owner, announcing they're unionizing with ILWU Local 5.

In ballots counted June 2, a group of 46 employees who operate tiny house villages for the homeless in Portland voted 15-3 to unionize.

Painters Local 10 has asked for an election to represent workers employed by Specialty Finishes, located at Portland’s Vigor Marine shipyard.

Starbucks employees in Portland are part of a burgeoning nationwide store-by-store union campaign led by young frontline workers.

Weeks before a union ballot count at Portland homeless services provider All Good NW, the nonprofit decided to close one of its villages.

Union campaigns have developed independently at two Portland-area New Seasons stores, where workers want better wages and working conditions.

Eleven Starbucks in Oregon and 71 across the country have unionized, and the number is increasing by the day.