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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.045 - Policy; union security agreements.

(1) To encourage labor peace, it is the policy of the State of Oregon to allow private sector labor organizations and employers to enter into union security agreements to the full extent allowed by federal law.
(2) It is the intent of the Legislative Assembly in enacting ORS 663.127 to exercise the limited authority reserved to states under section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act. [2017 c.369 §1]
Note:
661.045 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 661 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.210 - Counterfeiting of union label and possession or sale thereof prohibited.

Whenever any person or any association or union adopts or uses any label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement for the purpose of designating, making known or distinguishing any goods, wares, merchandise or other product of labor as having been made, manufactured, produced, prepared, packed or put on sale by such person or association or union, or by members of such association or union:
(1) A person shall not counterfeit or imitate such label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement, or use, sell, offer for sale or in any way utter or circulate any counterfeit or imitation of any such label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement;
(2) A person shall not keep or have in possession, with intent that the same shall be sold or disposed of, any goods, wares, merchandise or other product of labor to which or on which any such counterfeit or imitation is printed, painted, stamped or impressed;
(3) A person shall not knowingly sell or dispose of any goods, wares, merchandise or other product of labor contained in any box, case, can or package to which or on which any such counterfeit or imitation is attached, affixed, printed, painted, stamped or impressed; and
(4) A person shall not keep or have in possession, with intent that the same shall be sold or disposed of, any goods, wares, merchandise or other product of labor, in any box, case, can or package to which or on which any such counterfeit or imitation is attached, affixed, printed, painted, stamped or impressed. [Amended by 2001 c.104 §255]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.220 - Unauthorized use of label, name or seal of union prohibited.

(1) No person shall use or display the genuine label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement of any person, association or union in any manner not authorized by such person, union or association.
(2) No person shall in any way use the name or seal of any person, association or union, or officer thereof, in and about the sale of goods, or otherwise, without authorization to do so.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.230 - Registration of union label; actions to compel or cancel registration.

(1) A person, association or union that uses a label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement for the purpose described in ORS 661.210 may file an application to register the label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement with the Secretary of State in accordance with the requirements, procedures and policies set forth for registering marks under ORS 647.015. The Secretary of State shall evaluate the application as provided in ORS 647.029 and 647.035, shall determine whether the label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement is in use as provided in ORS 647.017 and may issue a certificate of registration for the label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement as provided in ORS 647.045.
(2) A certificate of registration that the Secretary of State issues under this section is:
(a) Effective for the term set forth in ORS 647.055;
(b) Subject to renewal as provided in ORS 647.055; and
(c) Subject to cancellation as provided in ORS 647.075.
(3) For registrations under this section, the Secretary of State shall collect fees as provided in ORS 647.009.
(4) For the purpose of proving in an action or proceeding in a court in this state that a person, association or union registered a label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement under this section, a certificate of registration that the Secretary of State issues for a label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement has the same effect as a certificate of registration that the Secretary of State issues for marks under ORS 647.045.
(5) A person must bring an action to compel or to cancel a registration for a label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement in accordance with the procedures set forth in ORS 647.077 for actions to compel or cancel registrations for marks. [Amended by 1991 c.132 §29; 2015 c.277 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.250 - Actions to enjoin counterfeits or unauthorized use of label; injunction; damages; destruction of counterfeits.

(1) A person, association or union that adopts or uses a label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement as provided in ORS 661.210 may bring an action to:
(a) Enjoin the manufacture, use, display or sale of any counterfeits of the label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement; or
(b) Enjoin another person from using or displaying a genuine label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement in a manner that the person that adopted the label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement does not authorize.
(2) A court of competent jurisdiction may grant an injunction to restrain any person from manufacturing, using, displaying or selling a counterfeit described in subsection (1) of this section or from using or displaying a genuine label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement without authorization. The court may award the plaintiff in the action damages as the court deems just and reasonable for any injury that results from manufacturing, using, displaying or selling the counterfeits described in subsection (1) of this section or from using or displaying a genuine label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement without authorization. The court shall require the defendants to pay to the plaintiff all profits derived from manufacturing, using, displaying or selling the counterfeits described in subsection (1) of this section or from using or displaying the label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement without authorization.
(3) The court shall also order that counterfeits that a defendant possesses or controls be delivered to an officer of the court, or to the complainant, to be destroyed. [Amended by 2015 c.277 §11]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.260 - Liability for false or fraudulent application; criminal penalties.

(1) A person that makes a false or fraudulent representation or declaration in an application to register a label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement under ORS 661.230, whether the person makes the representation or declaration verbally, in writing or by any other means, is liable in damages to a party that is entitled to bring an action under ORS 661.250 or 661.270 for any injury the party suffers as a consequence of the person’s false or fraudulent representation or declaration.
(2) A false or fraudulent representation or declaration of the type described in subsection (1) of this section is a Class C misdemeanor. [Amended by 1987 c.158 §129; 2015 c.277 §12]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.270 - Who may bring action on behalf of unincorporated association or union.

In all cases where the association or union is not incorporated, suits under ORS 661.210 to 661.280 may be commenced and prosecuted by an officer or member of the association or union on behalf of and for the use of the association or union.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.280 - Attorney fees.

In any action under ORS 661.250 or 661.260, the court may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party. [Amended by 1981 c.897 §97; 1995 c.618 §118]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 661 - Organized Labor; Union Labels › Section 661.990 - Penalties.

(1) Violation of ORS 661.040 is a Class A misdemeanor.
(2) Violation of ORS 661.210 or 661.220 is a Class C misdemeanor. [Amended by 2011 c.597 §275; 2015 c.277 §13]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.010 - Labor disputes.

(1) As used in ORS 662.010 to 662.130, "labor dispute" includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
(2) For the purposes of ORS 662.010 to 662.130, a case involves or grows out of a labor dispute when:
(a) The case involves persons who are engaged in the same industry, trade, craft or occupation, or who have direct or indirect interests therein, or who are employees of the same employer, or who are members of the same or an affiliated organization of employers or employees, whether such dispute is:
(A) Between one or more employers or associations of employers and one or more employees or associations of employees;
(B) Between one or more employers or associations of employers and one or more employers or associations of employers; or
(C) Between one or more employees or associations of employees and one or more employees or associations of employees; or
(b) The case involves any conflicting or competing interests in a labor dispute of persons participating or interested therein.
(3) For the purposes of ORS 662.010 to 662.130, a person or association is a person participating or interested in a labor dispute if relief is sought against the person or association, and if the person or association:
(a) Is engaged in the same industry, trade, craft or occupation in which such dispute occurs.
(b) Has a direct or indirect interest therein.
(c) Is a member, officer or agent of any association composed in whole or in part of employers or employees engaged in such industry, trade, craft or occupation. [Amended by 1987 c.158 §130; 2023 c.9 §50]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.020 - Declaration of policy as to labor organizations.

In the interpretation of ORS 662.010 to 662.130, and in determining the jurisdiction and authority of the courts of this state, as such jurisdiction and authority are defined and limited in those statutes, the public policy of Oregon is declared as follows:
(1) Under prevailing economic conditions, developed with the aid of governmental authority for owners of property to organize in a corporate and other forms of ownership association, the individual unorganized worker is commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract and to protect the individual unorganized worker’s freedom of labor and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment.
(2) Though the worker should be free to decline to associate with the worker’s fellows, it is necessary that the worker have full freedom of association, self-organization and designation of representatives of the worker’s own choosing to negotiate the terms and conditions of employment and that the worker shall be free from the interference, restraint or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.
(3) The definitions of and limitations contained in ORS 662.010 to 662.130 upon the jurisdiction and authority of the courts of this state hereby are enacted. [Amended by 2023 c.9 §51]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.030 - Restrictions in employment contracts on affiliation with labor or employer organization unenforceable.

Any undertaking or promise described in this section or any other undertaking or promise in conflict with the public policy declared in ORS 662.020 is declared to be contrary to the public policy of Oregon and is not enforceable in any court of this state and does not afford any basis for the granting of legal or equitable relief by any such court, including specifically, every undertaking or promise made after June 6, 1931, whether written or oral, express or implied, constituting or contained in any contract or agreement of hiring or employment between any individual, firm, company, association or corporation, and any employee or prospective employee of the same, whereby:
(1) Either party to such contract or agreement undertakes or promises not to join, become or remain a member of any labor organization or of any employer organization.
(2) Either party to such contract or agreement undertakes or promises that the party will withdraw from an employment relation in the event that the party joins, becomes or remains a member of any labor organization or of any employer organization.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.040 - Injunctions in labor disputes generally restricted.

No court, nor any judge thereof, shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except in strict conformity with ORS 662.010 to 662.130, nor shall any such restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction be issued contrary to the public policy declared in ORS 662.020.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.050 - Specific acts that are not enjoinable.

No court, nor any judge thereof, shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of any labor dispute to prohibit any person or persons participating or interested in such dispute from doing, whether singly or in concert, any of the following acts:
(1) Ceasing or refusing to perform any work or to remain in any relation of employment.
(2) Becoming or remaining a member of any labor organization or of any employer organization, regardless of any undertaking or promise, as is described in ORS 662.030.
(3) Paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person participating or interested in such labor dispute, any strike or unemployment benefits or insurance, or other moneys or things of value.
(4) By all lawful means aiding any person participating or interested in any labor dispute who is being proceeded against in, or is prosecuting, any action or suit in any court of the United States or of any state.
(5) Giving publicity to the existence of, or facts involved in, any labor dispute, whether by advertising, speaking, patrolling or by any other method not involving fraud or violence or intimidation.
(6) Assembling peaceably to act or to organize to act in promotion of their interests in a labor dispute.
(7) Advising or notifying any person of any intention to do any of the acts specified in subsections (1) to (6) of this section.
(8) Agreeing with other persons to do or not to do any of the acts specified in subsections (1) to (7) of this section.
(9) Advising, urging or otherwise causing or inducing without fraud or violence or intimidation, the acts specified in subsections (1) to (8) of this section, regardless of any undertaking or promise, as is described in ORS 662.030.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.060 - Restrictions on injunctions to prohibit doing in concert acts enumerated in ORS 662.050.

No court, nor any judge thereof, shall have jurisdiction to issue a restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction upon the ground that any of the persons participating or interested in a labor dispute constitute or are engaged in an unlawful combination or conspiracy because of the doing in concert of the acts enumerated in ORS 662.050.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.070 - Liability of associations and officers and members of associations for unlawful acts of individuals.

No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute, shall be held responsible or liable in any court of this state for the unlawful acts of individual officers, members or agents, except upon clear proof of actual participation in, or actual authorization of, such acts, or of ratification of such acts after actual knowledge thereof.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.080 - Hearing and findings of certain facts are prerequisites to injunction.

No court, nor any judge thereof, shall have jurisdiction to issue a temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except after hearing the testimony of witnesses in open court, with opportunity for cross-examination, in support of the allegations of a complaint made under oath, and testimony in opposition thereto, if offered, and except after findings of fact by the court, to the effect:
(1) That unlawful acts have been threatened and will be committed unless restrained, or have been committed and will be continued unless restrained, but no injunction or temporary restraining order shall be issued on account of any threat or unlawful act excepting against the persons, association or organization making the threat or committing the unlawful act or actually authorizing or ratifying the same after actual knowledge thereof.
(2) That substantial and irreparable injury to complainant’s property will follow.
(3) That as to each item of relief granted greater injury will be inflicted upon complainant by the denial of relief than will be inflicted upon defendants by the granting of relief.
(4) That complainant has no adequate remedy at law.
(5) That the public officers charged with the duty to protect complainant’s property are unable or unwilling to furnish adequate protection.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.090 - Notice of hearing; issuance of temporary injunction without notice; attorney fees.

(1) The hearing shall be held after due and personal notice thereof has been given, in such manner as the court shall direct, to all known persons against whom relief is sought, and also to the chief of those public officials of the county and city within which the unlawful acts have been threatened or committed charged with the duty to protect complainant’s property. However, if a complainant also alleges that, unless a temporary restraining order is issued without notice, a substantial and irreparable injury to complainant’s property will be unavoidable, such a temporary restraining order may be issued upon testimony under oath, sufficient, if sustained, to justify the court in issuing a temporary injunction upon a hearing after notice. Such a temporary restraining order shall be effective for no longer than five days and shall become void at the expiration of the five days.
(2) No temporary restraining order or temporary injunction shall be issued except on condition that complainant first files an undertaking with adequate security in an amount to be fixed by the court sufficient to recompense those enjoined for any loss, expense or damage caused by the improvident or erroneous issuance of such order or injunction, including all reasonable costs, together with a reasonable attorney fee at trial and on appeal and expense of defense against the order or against the granting of any injunctive relief sought in the same proceeding and subsequently denied by the court.
(3) The undertaking mentioned in subsection (2) of this section shall be understood to signify an agreement entered into by the complainant and the surety upon which a judgment may be rendered in the same action or proceeding against the complainant and surety, upon a hearing to assess damages of which hearing complainant and surety shall have reasonable notice, the complainant and surety submitting themselves to the jurisdiction of the court for that purpose. This section does not deprive any party having a claim or cause of action under or upon such undertaking from electing to pursue the ordinary remedy of the party by action for legal or equitable remedies. [Amended by 1979 c.284 §188; 1981 c.897 §98]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.100 - Compliance with obligations involved in dispute and making reasonable effort to settle as prerequisites to injunctive relief.

No restraining order or injunctive relief shall be granted to any complainant who has failed to comply with any obligation imposed by law which is involved in the labor dispute in question, or who has failed to make every reasonable effort to settle such dispute, either by negotiation or with the aid of any available governmental machinery of mediation or voluntary arbitration.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.110 - Findings of fact prerequisite to injunction; scope of injunction.

(1) No restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction shall be granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except on the basis of findings of fact made and filed by the court in the record of the case prior to the issuance of such restraining order or injunction.
(2) Every restraining order or injunction granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute shall include only a prohibition of such specific acts as may expressly be complained of in the bill of complaint or petition filed in such case and as shall expressly be included in the findings of fact made and filed by the court.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.120 - Appeal to Supreme Court.

Whenever any court or judge thereof issues or denies any temporary injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, the court shall, upon the request of any party to the proceedings and on filing the usual bond for costs, forthwith certify, as in ordinary cases, the record of the case to the Supreme Court for its review. Upon the filing of such record in the Supreme Court, the appeal shall be heard and the temporary injunctive order affirmed, modified or set aside with the greatest possible expedition, giving the proceedings precedence over all other matters, except older matters of the same character.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.130 - Contempt proceedings; jury trial; change of judge.

(1) In all cases arising under ORS 662.010 to 662.130 in which a person is charged with contempt in a court of this state, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury wherein the contempt has been committed; provided, this right shall not apply to contempts committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to interfere directly with the administration of justice or to the misbehavior, misconduct or disobedience of any officer of the court in respect to the writs, orders or process of the court.
(2) The defendant in any proceeding for contempt of court may file with the court a demand for the retirement of the judge sitting in the proceeding, if the contempt arises from an attack upon the character or conduct of such judge and if the attack occurred elsewhere than in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to interfere directly with the administration of justice. Upon the filing of any such demand the judge shall thereupon proceed no further, but another judge shall be designated as provided by law. The demand shall be filed prior to the hearing in the contempt proceeding.
(3) Except as provided in subsections (1) and (2) of this section, proceedings for imposition of sanctions for contempt shall be conducted as provided under ORS 33.015 to 33.155. [Amended by 1991 c.724 §29]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.205 - Definitions for ORS 662.205 to 662.225.

As used in ORS 662.205 to 662.225:
(1) "Employee" means any individual who performs services for wages or salary.
(2) "Employer" means any person, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity, or any agent thereof, that employs an individual to perform services for a wage or salary.
(3) "For the duration of a strike or lockout" includes that period of time beginning one month before initiation of a strike or lockout and ending one month after termination of the strike or lockout.
(4) "Lockout" means any refusal by an employer to permit employees to work as a result of a dispute with such employees affecting wages, hours or other terms or conditions of their employment.
(5) "Professional strikebreaker" means a person who currently offers to replace an employee involved in a strike or lockout, for the duration of that strike or lockout; and who, within the preceding five-year period, has on two or more previous occasions offered to replace an employee involved in a strike or lockout, for the duration of that strike or lockout. However, professional strikebreaker does not include any person who is the owner of a partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity or the family of the owner or any person designated as supervisory personnel. As used in this section, owner includes a producer of agricultural commodities or a member of a cooperative association.
(6) "Strike" means any concerted act of employees in a lawful refusal under applicable state or federal law to perform work or services for an employer. [1975 c.645 §1; 1987 c.158 §131]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.215 - Prohibitions on use of professional strikebreakers; restrictions on recruiting employees during strike.

No employer shall:
(1) Knowingly utilize any professional strikebreaker to replace an employee involved in a strike or lockout, for the duration of that strike or lockout.
(2) Recruit, solicit or advertise for individuals to replace employees involved in a strike or lockout, for the duration of the strike or lockout, unless the employer gives notice to such individual that there is a strike or lockout at the place at which employment is offered and that the employment offered is for the purpose of replacing an employee involved in the strike or lockout, for the duration of such strike or lockout. [1975 c.645 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.225 - Prohibited conduct by professional strikebreaker.

No professional strikebreaker shall knowingly become employed or offer to become employed for the purpose of replacing an employee involved in a strike or lockout, for the duration of that strike or lockout. [1975 c.645 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.405 - Declaration of policy.

It hereby is declared to be the public policy of the State of Oregon that the best interests of the people of this state are served by fostering collective bargaining and by the prevention of or the prompt settlement of labor controversies, strikes and lockouts; that sound and stable industrial peace and the advancement of the general welfare of the state and of the best interests of employers and employees can most satisfactorily be secured by the settlement of issues between employers and employees through the processes of conference and collective bargaining between employers and employees; that the settlement of issues between employers and employees through collective bargaining may be advanced by making available full and adequate government facilities for conciliation, mediation and voluntary arbitration to aid and encourage employers and employees to reach and maintain agreements concerning rates of pay, hours and working conditions and to make all reasonable efforts to settle their differences by mutual agreement reached through conferences and collective bargaining. [1957 c.122 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.415 - State Conciliation Service established; purpose.

A State Conciliation Service hereby is established within the Employment Relations Board with the primary responsibility for fostering collective bargaining by rendering voluntary assistance to employers and employees in resolving their differences without resort to strikes, lockouts or other forms of conflict. [1957 c.122 §2(1); 1969 c.671 §13]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.425 - Mediation services; fees.

(1) When any party to a labor controversy notifies the State Conciliation Service that a labor controversy exists or is imminent, the conciliator, if the conciliator determines that a labor controversy exists or is imminent, shall immediately set a time and place for a mediation session and invite the parties to attend to participate in mediation of their differences. The State Conciliation Service shall charge a fee in the amount described in ORS 240.610 for each mediation session conducted under this section. Each party to the mediation shall pay one-half of the applicable fee.
(2) When it comes to the attention of the conciliator that a labor controversy exists or is imminent, the conciliator may offer mediation services if the conciliator deems it to be in the public interest.
(3) At the request of the Governor, the Employment Relations Board shall instruct the conciliator to investigate any existing or imminent labor dispute, or controversy in the public sector and report the facts of the dispute and the matters in issue to the Governor. [1957 c.122 §3; 1969 c.671 §14; 2011 c.593 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.435 - Services for state agencies and political subdivisions.

The services and facilities of the State Conciliation Service and the conciliator shall be made available to the State of Oregon or any of its agencies, boards, commissions or other branches or any of the political subdivisions of the state and to the public employees of the State of Oregon in all its agencies, boards, commissions or other branches or its political subdivisions in the same manner as such facilities are available to private employers and their employees. [1957 c.122 §4; 1959 c.184 §1; 1969 c.671 §15]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.445 - List of qualified arbitrators; fees.

(1) The State Conciliation Service shall maintain a list of qualified arbitrators who may be available to the parties to a labor controversy if the parties so request.
(2) An individual who applies to be included on the list of qualified arbitrators shall pay the State Conciliation Service an application fee of $100. A qualified arbitrator who is included on the list shall pay the State Conciliation Service an annual fee of $150 to remain on the list.
(3) Fees received by the State Conciliation Service under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the Employment Relations Board Administrative Account. [1957 c.122 §2(3); 2007 c.477 §§1,3; 2017 c.497 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.455 - Conciliator.

The State Conciliation Service shall be headed by the conciliator, who shall be appointed by the chairperson of the Employment Relations Board. [1957 c.122 §2(2); 1969 c.671 §16; 2017 c.496 §8]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.805 - Definitions for ORS 662.805 to 662.825.

As used in ORS 662.805 to 662.825, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Labor dispute" includes any controversy between an employer and a regular employee of that employer concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment.
(2) "Perishable agricultural crops" means those products of agriculture that, because of their inherent qualities or dependence upon conditions of soil or weather, mature, decompose, decay or deteriorate and in so doing undergo material changes of form and quality that render them unsuitable for the use for which they were produced.
(3) "Regular employee" means a person who has been employed by the employer for at least six calendar work days. [1963 c.543 §2; 2007 c.71 §217]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.810 - Declaration of policy; right to organize and bargain collectively.

(1) The Legislative Assembly recognizes and declares that agriculture is of great importance to the economy of the state and to the well-being of its citizens. Because of the perishable nature of agricultural crops, they must be harvested at the proper stage of maturity, and if this harvest is interfered with the crop may become a total loss with a resulting waste or loss of food, adverse effect upon consumer prices, loss of employment to agricultural laborers and severe dislocation of the entire economy of the state. The picketing of farms, ranches or orchards at such times as would prevent the planting or harvesting of such crops directly affects the public welfare and requires regulation by the state in the exercise of its police power.
(2) Nothing in ORS 662.805 to 662.825 shall be construed to prohibit any right of employees to organize and bargain collectively with their employers. [1963 c.543 §§1,6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.815 - Picketing sites where perishable agricultural crops are being harvested restricted.

It shall be unlawful for any person to picket or cause to be picketed any farm, ranch or orchard where perishable agricultural crops are produced while such crops are being harvested unless such picket has been a regular employee on such farm, ranch or orchard immediately prior to the commencement of the picketing. [1963 c.543 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.820 - Employer to display bilingual notices of picketing restriction.

An employer of persons employed to harvest perishable agricultural crops shall display, in a conspicuous manner about the farm, ranch or orchard where perishable agricultural crops are being harvested, notices, written in the English and Spanish languages, of sufficient size and number to reasonably inform the employees and stating that ORS 662.815 prohibits any person other than a regular employee, as defined in ORS 662.805, from picketing a farm, ranch or orchard where perishable agricultural crops are produced while such crops are being harvested. [1963 c.543 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.825 - Jurisdiction to enjoin violations.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the circuit court for the county in which such unlawful picketing is conducted has jurisdiction to enjoin any violation of ORS 662.805 to 662.825 by appropriate order or judgment. The proceedings shall be conducted as in the case of an action not triable by right to a jury but shall be given precedence over all other civil actions.
[1963 c.543 §4; 1979 c.284 §189]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 662 - Labor Disputes › Section 662.992 - Penalties.

(1) Violation of ORS 662.225 is a misdemeanor.
(2) Violation of ORS 662.215 is a Class A violation. [1975 c.645 §4; 1999 c.1051 §217]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.010 - "Collective bargaining" defined.

For the purposes of this chapter, "collective bargaining" is the performance of the mutual obligation of the employer and the representative of the employees to meet at reasonable times and confer in good faith with respect to wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment, or the negotiation of an agreement, or any question arising thereunder, and the execution of a written contract incorporating any agreement reached if requested by either party. However, this obligation does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or require the making of a concession. [Formerly 662.515]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.015 - Designated collective bargaining representatives to be exclusive; grievances excepted.

Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining, by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes, are the exclusive representatives of all the employees in that unit for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment or other conditions of employment. However, an individual employee or a group of employees may at any time present grievances to their employer and have such grievances adjusted, without the intervention of the bargaining representative, if:
(1) The adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of a collective-bargaining contract or agreement then in effect; and
(2) The bargaining representative has been given opportunity to be present at the adjustment. [Formerly 662.525]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.020 - Determination of appropriate unit for purposes of collective bargaining.

(1) The Employment Relations Board shall decide in each case whether the unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining is the employer unit, craft unit, plant unit, or subdivision thereof. However, the board shall not decide that:
(a) A unit is appropriate for such purposes if the unit includes both professional employees and employees who are not professional employees, unless a majority of the professional employees vote for inclusion in the unit;
(b) A craft unit is inappropriate for such purposes on the ground that a different unit has been established by a prior determination of the board unless a majority of the employees in the proposed craft unit vote against separate representation; or
(c) A unit is appropriate for such purposes if it includes, together with other employees, an individual employed as a guard to enforce against employees and other persons rules to protect property of the employer or to protect the safety of persons on the employer’s premises. However, no labor organization shall be certified as the representative of employees in a bargaining unit of guards if such organization admits to membership, or is affiliated directly or indirectly with an organization which admits to membership, employees other than guards.
(2) In determining whether a unit is appropriate for the purposes specified in subsection (1) of this section, the extent to which the employees have organized is not controlling. [Formerly 662.545]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.025 - Filing of representation petition; investigation; hearing; election.

(1) A petition may be filed with the Employment Relations Board, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the board:
(a) By an employee or group of employees, or any individual or labor organization acting in their behalf, alleging that a substantial number of employees:
(A) Wish to be represented for collective bargaining and that their employer declines to recognize their representative as the representative defined in ORS 663.015; or
(B) Assert that the individual or labor organization that has been certified or is being currently recognized by their employer as the bargaining representative is no longer a representative as defined in ORS 663.015; or
(b) By an employer, alleging that one or more individuals or labor organizations have presented to the employer a claim to be recognized as the representative defined in ORS 663.015.
(2) The board shall investigate the petition and if, upon the basis of its findings, the board has reasonable cause to believe that a question of representation exists, it shall provide for an appropriate hearing before the board itself, a member thereof or its agent appointed for that purpose. Written notice of the hearing shall be mailed by certified mail to the parties named in the petition not less than seven days before the hearing. If the board finds upon the record of the hearing that a question of representation exists, it shall conduct an election by secret ballot marked at the place of election and certify the results thereof.
(3) In determining whether or not a question of representation exists, the same regulations and rules of decision apply irrespective of the identity of the persons filing the petition or the kind of relief sought.
(4) Nothing in this chapter prohibits the waiving of hearings by stipulation for the purpose of a consent election in conformity with regulations and rules of decision of the board. [Formerly 662.555; 1975 c.147 §13; 2003 c.14 §409]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.030 - Conduct of representation election.

No election shall be directed in any bargaining unit or any subdivision within which, in the preceding 12 months, a valid election has been held. Employees engaged in an economic strike who are not entitled to reinstatement are eligible to vote, under regulations of the Employment Relations Board consistent with the purposes and provisions of this chapter, in any election conducted within 12 months after the commencement of the strike. In any election where none of the choices on the ballot receives a majority, a run-off shall be conducted by the board, the ballot providing for a selection between the two choices receiving the largest and second largest number of valid votes cast in the election. [Formerly 662.565; 1975 c.147 §13a]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.035 - Filing of deauthorization petition; election; limitation.

(1) Upon the filing with the Employment Relations Board by 40 percent or more of the employees in a bargaining unit covered by an agreement between their employer and a labor organization requiring membership as a condition of employment, of a petition alleging that they desire that the authority of the labor organization to make such an agreement be rescinded, the board shall direct the conciliator to take a secret ballot, marked at the place of election, of the employees in the unit and to certify the results thereof to the labor organization and to the employer.
(2) No election shall be conducted pursuant to this section in a bargaining unit or a subdivision within which, in the preceding 12 months, a valid election has been held. [Formerly 662.575]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.040 - Filing charge of illegal election practice; investigation; new election.

Any person may file with the Employment Relations Board a charge that employees eligible to vote in an election under this chapter have been coerced or restrained in the exercise of this right. The board shall investigate the charge. If, upon the basis of its findings, the board concludes that employees eligible to vote in the election were so coerced or restrained, the board may order another election. [Formerly 662.585; 1975 c.147 §14]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.045 - Obtaining advisory opinions on assertion of federal jurisdiction; findings of board to be public records.

(1) In carrying out this chapter, the Employment Relations Board may, pursuant to any applicable federal law, rule or regulation, petition the National Labor Relations Board for an advisory opinion as to whether that agency will assert jurisdiction over a labor dispute which is the subject of a proceeding then pending before the board.
(2) All findings, conclusions, and determinations of the board under this chapter shall be public records. [Formerly 662.595]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.100 - Determination of agent.

For the purposes of this chapter, in determining whether a person is acting as an "agent" of a second person so as to make the second person responsible for the acts of the first person, the question of whether the specific acts performed were actually authorized or subsequently ratified is not controlling. [1971 c.729 §3; 1987 c.158 §133]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 663 - Labor Relations Generally › Section 663.105 - Supervisory personnel as union members.

Nothing in this chapter prohibits an individual employed as a supervisor from becoming or remaining a member of a labor organization, but no employer subject to this chapter is compelled to treat as employees, for the purpose of collective bargaining, individuals defined as supervisors in ORS 663.005. [1971 c.729 §4]