The News-Review: UCC staff reacts to union vote approval
Four years ago, Susie Navarro didn’t want to join a union.
She fought a move by classified employees at Umpqua Community College to join the Oregon Education Association, and her group won. Two-thirds of the employees voted against joining.
“I was totally against the union because I trusted management,” she said. “At that time the board said that they would have meetings with us, that they would listen to our concerns, and so I really believed that they would.”
This time around, only 13 percent of the full-time classified staff voted against the union, and Navarro wasn’t one of them. In fact, she was on the organizing team.
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