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Collective Bargaining

Nonunion workers are on their own. Union workers bargain collectively with their employers. In the Collective Bargaining section, we report on all aspects of that: negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations; impasses, lockouts, and strikes; and tentative agreements, votes, and ratification of new union contracts.

Collective Bargaining

Paper giant improves its offer after nine-day strike

Aug 3, 2022

Graphic Packaging workers had gone without general raises since their previous contract ended Feb. 28, 2020.

Collective Bargaining

OPB workers enter second month without contract

Aug 3, 2022

Management at OPB had an interesting wage proposal for 26 workers represented by SEIU Local 503: No raises for the next three years.

Collective Bargaining

TriMet workers extend contract through 2024

Aug 3, 2022

Portland-area transit workers will get raises at the end of this year and next, but otherwise their union contract will remain unchanged.

Collective Bargaining

Nurses ratify two more Providence contracts

Aug 3, 2022

Members of the Oregon Nurses Association at Providence hospitals in Portland and Milwaukie approved two-year contracts with their employer.

Collective Bargaining

OHSU bargaining continues, and so does picketing

Aug 3, 2022

AFSCME and Oregon Health and Science University management have reached several tentative agreements, but have not settled on wage increases.

Collective Bargaining

AFSCME holds firm on raises in OHSU bargaining

Jul 13, 2022

After 17 weeks of bargaining and some tentative agreements, economics are a key sticking point between OHSU and AFSCME.

Collective Bargaining

Nurses approve a new contract in first of three Providence hospital votes

Jul 13, 2022

A bargaining unit of 233 nurses at Providence Willamette Falls in Oregon City voted to ratify a new contract, in ballots counted July 11. 

Collective Bargaining

ILWU signs first child care workers contract

Jul 13, 2022

The contract covers 17 workers at Fruit & Flower Rock Creek, which is connected to PCC’s Rock Creek campus.

Collective Bargaining

Oregon Coast hospital workers ratify contract

Jul 13, 2022

A group of 115 workers at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in Lincoln City have a new three-year contract.

Collective Bargaining

Central City Concern workers push for better wages

Jul 13, 2022

AFSCME Local 88’s previous three-year contract with Central City Concern expired June 30. Wages are a sticking point in bargaining.

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