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The workers first went on strike Sept. 19, 2024. A federal labor official determined this month that workers lack union status because a majority of represented employees supported dissolving the union.
The union representing striking Bigfoot Beverages employees in Eugene, Newport and Coos Bay has appealed a U.S. Department of Labor ruling this month that effectively stripped the workers of union protections.
The National Labor Relations Board received an appeal notice on Friday, the last day the Teamsters union could contest the Jan. 8 dismissal of several complaints of unfair labor practices it had filed against the beverage distributor.
The Jan. 8 ruling marked a significant victory for Bigfoot, which has long contended that a majority of Teamsters-represented workers had voted to no longer be represented by the union. The company announced in late 2024 that it had stopped recognizing Teamsters as representing any Bigfoot employees, several months after the company and union failed to agree on terms for a new contract.
Union-represented employees have said the decertification vote was illegitimate and spearheaded by company management. They argued in unfair labor complaints that Bigfoot Beverages illegally replaced strikers with temporary workers who signed decertification petitions.
Teamsters and Bigfoot officials didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment Friday.
It’s unclear when a ruling on the appeal will occur. Appeals are heard by the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel.
NLRB’s Jan. 8 ruling dismissed seven complaints against Bigfoot by the union. They included claims the company interfered with employees’ rights to have union representatives present in investigatory interviews and that Bigfoot refused to provide information to the union. In both cases, the labor board ruled the union decertification rendered the cases moot, because employees weren’t legally represented.
Eight other complaints filed by the union against Bigfoot since September 2024 are still listed as active in NLRB’s case registry. Seven of them allege that the company unlawfully surveilled employees, issued threats and asked about their support for the union. Another complaint, filed last May, alleges Bigfoot unilaterally changed workers’ contract terms and terms of employment.