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Or. Rev. Stat. § 243.662 (2026)

Rights of public employees to join labor organizations

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      243.662 Rights of public employees to join labor organizations. Public employees have the right to form, join and participate in the activities of labor organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation and collective bargaining with their public employer on matters concerning employment relations. [Formerly 243.730]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 41 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1975–2024 · leading case: Am. Fed'n of State Cnty. & Mun. Employees, Council 75, Local 2043 v. City of Lebanon, 388 P.3d 1028 (Or. 2017).
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Am. Fed'n of State Cnty. & Mun. Employees, Council 75, Local 2043 v. City of Lebanon, 388 P.3d 1028 (Or. 2017). · cites it 14× “672(1)(a) and (b), which provide: “It is an unfair labor practice for a public employer or its designated rep- resentative to do any of the following: “(a) Interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in or because of the exercise of rights guaranteed in ORS 243.662. “(b)…”
Clackamas Cnty. Employees' Ass'n v. Clackamas Cnty./Clackamas Cnty. Dist. Attorney, 259 P.3d 932 (Or. Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 5× “782 (PECBA), provides Oregon public employees with “the right to form, join and participate in the activities of labor organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation and collective bargaining * * ORS 243.”
Vaandering v. Rosenblum, 371 P.3d 1194 (Or. 2016). · cites it 2× “See ORS 243.662. If a union is either recognized or certified as the exclusive representative of the employees within a bargaining unit, see ORS 243.”
Lane Cnty. Pub. Works Ass'n Local 626 v. Lane Cnty., 846 P.2d 414 (Or. Ct. App. 1993). · cites it 2× “672(1) provides, in part: “It is an unfair labor practice for a public employer or its designated representative to do any of the following: “(a) Interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in or because of the exercise of rights guaranteed in ORS 243.662. “ * * * * “(c)…”
Oregon AFSCME Council 75 v. OJD - Yamhill Cnty., 304 Or. App. 794 (Or. Ct. App. 2020). “” ORS 243.662. A public employer, however, is not required to bargain with any labor organization that a group of its employees selects to represent them.”
Wy'East Educ. Ass'n v. Oregon Trail Sch. Dist. No. 46, 260 P.3d 626 (Or. Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 3× “672(l)(a), it is an unfair labor practice for a public employer to “[interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in or because of the exercise of rights guaranteed in ORS 243.662.” 8 Subsection (l)(a) contains two prohibitions: “(1) restraint, interference, or coercion ‘because…”
Ass'n of Oregon Corr. Employees v. State, 149 P.3d 319 (Or. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 2× “672(l)(a) provides that it is an unfair labor practice to “[interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in or because of the exercise of rights guaranteed in ORS 243.662.” ORS 243.662 provides, in turn that: “Public employees have the right to form, join and participate in the…”
Am. Fed'n of State, Cnty. & Mun. Employees, Council 75, Local 2043 v. City of Lebanon, 336 P.3d 519 (Or. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 4× “” In response, the union argues that “[individual City Councilors are 'public employers’ within the meaning of the PECBA [(Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act)] *293 when they interfere as such with employees’ exercise of their rights under ORS 243.662 [.]” (Emphasis in…”
Portland Ass'n of Teachers v. Multnomah Sch. Dist. No. 1, 16 P.3d 1189 (Or. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 3× “ANALYSIS OF UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE CLAIMS ORS 243.662 provides that an employee has the right to “participate in the activities of labor organizations * * * for the purpose of representation and collective bargaining.”
Cent. Sch. Dist. 13J v. Cent. Educ. Ass'n, 962 P.2d 763 (Or. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 3× “ERB held that asserting the contractual right was a protected activity under ORS 243.662 and that respondent Vilches, a probationary teacher, had been discharged for asserting that right.”
Univ. of Oregon Chapter, AFT v. Univ. of Oregon, 759 P.2d 1112 (Or. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 2× “ERB was entitled to conclude that that and other PECBA policies are promoted by the largest and least divided possible bargaining units.”
Clackamas Cnty. Employees' Assn. v. Clackamas Cnty., 480 P.3d 993 (Or. Ct. App. 2020). “” ORS 243.662. ORS 243.672(1)(a) protects that right by making it an 150 Clackamas County Employees’ Assn.”
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