CWA 7901 Files Unfair Labor Practice Against NAACP Eugene-Springfield Chapter for Wrongful Termination and Union Busting

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

July 31, 2025 

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Meg Ward, president@cwa7901.org, 503-341-8590 

NAACP Eugene-Springfield Chapter Faces Unfair Labor Practice 

for Wrongful Termination and Union Busting 

Eugene, Oregon – Yesterday, Communications Workers of America Local 7901 filed an unfair labor practice with the National Labor Relations Board against the NAACP Eugene-Springfield chapter for wrongfully terminating employees and union busting. 

One of the terminated employees said: 

“The NAACP executive leadership stewarded a disorganized and hostile work environment which lacked top down accountability and transparency. Leadership engaged in regular organization restructuring and pay raises at the highest level, while increasing workload at lower levels without proper compensation. I sought to form a union to protect my job, and the jobs of my colleagues. Unfortunately, management learned of the unionization effort and fired me and two of my colleagues as soon as they learned we were organizing our work place. I want the community to understand the type of leadership at the helm of this organization. ”

In April of this year, employees of the NAACP 1119  began discussing unionization as a pathway to improve workplace conditions and increase security due to escalating concerns. These conversations were still in their early stages when, in mid May, all of the employees organizing the effort were fired, effective immediately,  within minutes of each other. This left the NAACP without three-quarters of their non-management level staff.

Another  terminated employee shared: 

“I cared deeply about the mission of the NAACP but the work environment  pushed boundaries and was heavily fear based. I started to dread work and seeing management. I became afraid to open emails. I was diagnosed with high blood pressure early this year but, despite the great stress and strain of being fired without notice, my levels quickly normalized after leaving that environment.” 

Meg Ward, president of Communications Workers of America, Local 7901, said: 

“Employees at the NAACP were exercising their federally protected right to form a union at a hostile workplace that made them feel devalued and sick. We will hold NAACP Eugene-Springfield accountable for the wrongful termination of its employees. CWA 7901 believes that an organization with a vision to ‘ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race’ must do better.”

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