Union Organizing

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.

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.