The Oregon Employee Relations Board has determined that the University of Oregon broke the law by prohibiting labor-related activity.
The board concluded that the UO violated ORS 243.672(1)(a), a statute that details how an employer cannot interfere with employee organizations or discriminate against employee exercises of rights.
According to Robin Bailey, a member of the communications committee at UOSW, final orders from the decision included demands that the university cease telling student workers that they could not engage in organizing activities while on work time, not give union presentations in a class, not sign union cards in a residence hall on campus or not wear union pins…