Unions

Eric Feaver, the founding President of the Montana Federation of Public Employees and a Helena city commissioner, died today at 77 years old.

A Starbucks in Butte is the first in Montana to join a growing number of locations calling for baristas to unionize.

Nurses at Barrett Hospital and HealthCare voted 18 to 8 in favor of forming a union. The state nurses association says the move is part of a growing trend of organized health care labor.

According to the department, corrections officers at the state prison in Deer Lodge will see a $2 an hour raise and changes to the prison’s employee grievance procedure as a result of union negotiations.

All 9 of the Bozeman Chronicle’s reporters and photographers are seeking to unionize, citing an ongoing furlough and overall rising living costs in the area.

Nurses at Logan Health in Kalispell are on strike. Nurse union organizers say hospital officials were unwilling to compromise over pay and benefit negotiations, claims which hospital leaders deny.

The 67th session of the Montana Legislature has come to an end. In the final days, the body passed policies to regulate and tax marijuana sales, spend ...

On the heels of voting down other labor related bills, Montana lawmakers decisively rejected a "right-to-work" bill for private unions Tuesday.

The Montana House Monday offered support to a bill that would limit government civil liability for COVID-19-related issues. Lawmakers also voted down two bills that would’ve impacted public unions.

A bill that would prohibit forced private union membership as a job condition in Montana drew lengthy public testimony Tuesday. Republican Rep. Caleb Hinkle of Belgrade told lawmakers his adamant support for right-to-work legislation comes from his time working at a unionized grocery store in 2013.