Union Organizing

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.

Congressional staffers have long had the right to unionize, in theory. Now, they’re getting the legal protection to do so.

The Crux Front of the House Employees Union is looking to organize 13 workers at Crux Fermentation Project in Bend.

Matt West, who ran for Congress in the recent Democratic primary, has announced a union effort covering engineers at Intel.

So-called “safe rest villages” in Portland are highly unsafe for staffers, leading workers to seek union representation with AFSCME.

Workers at four Starbucks stores in Eugene voted to unionize on April 28, joining Oregon's first union Starbucks that voted two weeks prior.

Boycott: UFCW Local 555 says don’t buy Cannabis Nation products until the company recognizes union representation for workers.

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, have voted 2,654 to 2,131 to join the brand-new grassroots Amazon Labor Union.

Workers at a Eugene Starbucks voted 17-0 to unionize. In the next month, ballots will be counted at a dozen more Oregon stores.

A federal disclosure shows Jim Fisher himself made the agreement with a union-busting firm. Mandatory antiunion meetings started immediately.

Nearly 170 Starbucks locations nationwide have requested union representation elections so far, including 16 in Oregon.

Workers at the Alliance For A Healthier Generation contacted OPEIU Local 11 last year expressing interest in unionizing.

Union campaigns at Starbucks have been exploding in recent weeks. Workers at over 130 locations in 29 states have requested union elections.

NLRB ordered a new election after Amazon broke labor law at its Alabama warehouse. Ballots, mailed out Feb. 4, will be counted March 28.

Tesla workers held their first-ever workplace representation vote Feb. 28 ... in Germany. But in the US, Tesla has so far resisted unionizing.

More than 160 employees of nonprofit behavioral health provider Lines for Life are now members of AFSCME Local 1790.

Multnomah County has recognized the decision of a group of 30 Health Department pharmacists to join AFSCME Local 88.