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.
Bargaining dragged on and on. Then workers got ready to strike.
Months of pushback from Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 has so far failed to persuade TriMet management to put the brakes on a plan to end its apprenticeship programs for bus and light rail mechanics.
All told, nearly 600 workers will get raises of 3% to 5% a year and more over the next few years.
Not only do faculty get raises of roughly $10,000 a year, but the new contract reduces the college’s incentive to shift course load to lower-paid part-timers.
The instructors want catch-up raises, and they want part-time faculty to be paid at the same rate as full time faculty.
TriMet has been proposing in union contract bargaining to scrap its bus and light rail maintenance mechanic training programs.
Over 500 nurses have been working at Good Samaritan without a contract since June 30.
The union’s three-year collective bargaining agreement with the Signatory Painting Contractors Organization of Oregon and Southwest Washington expires March 31, 2020.
Up to 550 faculty members could strike as soon as next month if the college doesn’t agree to catch-up raises and lower the disparity between full and part time faculty.
More than a year into negotiations over a first union contract, Burgerville offers to pay at or near the minimum wage.
