Seal Rock staff plans own union By Joel Gallob, Newport News, OR
The four field workers and two full-time office staff at the Seal Rock Water District are in the process of becoming their own union. (One employee, Tom Donaty, as a field supervisor, is not part of the bargaining unit.)
'We filed with the Employment Relations Board,' said field crew member Curtis Hunter, 'under the name of the Seal Rock Public Employee Association, to become our own bargaining unit, our own union.'
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The laborer's union dropped the Seal Rock staffers because the dues the union received from the small number of staffers were not, Hunter said, enough to cover the cost of union services, primarily those relating to grievances procedures.