Anna Del Savio

Anna Del Savio served as staff reporter for the Northwest Labor Press from September 2024 to February 2026. Prior to that she worked as a reporter for the Portland Tribune and the Columbia County Spotlight. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the New School in New York, N.Y.
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Collective bargaining

Starbucks set to restart bargaining in April

The strike is over for now, but the union still asks customers to boycott the company.
Collective bargaining

Strike threat looms at Portland Community College

Raises of 0.35% a year? Yes, you read the zero right. Two unions at PCC jointly declared impasse Jan. 30 and could strike as soon as March 10.
Collective bargaining

Refugee service staff win first contract with OPEIU

Almost 700 workers serving refugees across the country will get 2% raises and stronger layoff protections.
Jobs

More layoffs at Roseburg Forest Products

It’s the company's third set of layoffs in or near Southern Oregon in six months.
Collective bargaining

OHSU researchers voting on first-ever union deal

Bargaining expectations were tempered because OHSU research has been hit by Trump administration cuts to the National Institutes of Health.
Collective bargaining

Nabisco settles five-year dispute over temps

Mondelez-Nabisco violated its union contract when it brought in temps to do work that union members could have done.
Workers Rights

REI must reinstate fired worker

An 11-year employee was fired for clocking in seven minutes early. That was just a pretext, said the judge.
Collective bargaining

California Kaiser strike now in week four

More than 31,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California and Hawaii have been on an open-ended strike since Jan. 26.
Union Organizing

KGW producers vote on whether to join IBEW Local 48

As tech reshapes their newsroom, workers are looking to the union for protection.
Union Organizing

They help riders in crisis — Now TriMet safety workers want a union

Most TriMet workers are unionized. Now the agency’s crisis-response safety team wants recognition from its private contractor.
Collective bargaining

AFSCME ratifies deal at Central City Concern 

A newly enlarged unit of homeless services workers has ratified a contract with 13% raises, $21 minimum wage, and a $1,500 bonus.
Collective bargaining

Slow bargaining at C-TRAN

About 70 C-TRAN office workers finalized a new contract, but 240 bus and paratransit van operators are still without one.
Collective bargaining

OHSU’s largest unit ratifies contract

Roughly 8,000 workers represented by AFSCME Local 328 have a new contract, approved by 84% of those voting.
Collective bargaining

OHSU researchers authorize strike

Contract bargaining between Oregon AFSCME and OHSU has stalled over wages and cashing out unused paid time off.
Workers Rights

PSU backs down, agrees to rehire laid-off profs

After union pushback, PSU agrees to reinstate 10 professors laid off in 2024, though it disputes the arbitrator’s authority.
Union Organizing

Student workers at Portland State form a union

The massive unit would mean nearly wall-to-wall unionization at PSU.
National

Job Corps: Not dead yet

The Trump administration wants to close the program, but Congress hasn't acted yet, and a judge blocked an order closing some centers.
Collective bargaining

Legacy workers ratify contract after 29-day strike

The agreement covers around 135 nurse practitioners and physician assistants at Legacy hospitals and clinics.
Collective bargaining

Multnomah County workers vote on new contract

The new agreement sets a $21 minimum wage and raises of 2.4% or at least $1 per hour retroactive to July 2025.
People

Rocky Hanes signs off after 26 years leading IAFF 1660

The longtime president helped double Local 1660 and negotiated safer staffing, shorter workweeks, and stronger contracts for firefighters.