Collective bargaining

Ratified in late October, it’s the fourth Providence contract to be approved this year, and three more are still being negotiated.

After seven months of bargaining, workers across three City of Portland bureaus have signaled they’re willing to strike.

The Graduate Employees Union proposed the university provide workers with health insurance subsidies, but management declined.

Just weeks after AFSCME Local 328 ratified a contract with Oregon Health & Science University, management is violating the terms of the deal.

For the first time since 1986, loggers and millworkers faced off against one of the world’s biggest corporations.

If approved, the contract would bring a 5% cost-of-living adjustment retroactive to July 1, along with a $2,500 immediate bonus.

In Oregon and Washington, union Starbucks shops have bargaining dates set throughout November and early December.

The contract covers case managers, residential advocates and other workers helping people transition from homelessness into housing.

Machinists union members voted down another Weyerhaeuser proposal that failed to fix the core issues behind the walkout.

In the end, management proposed a 4% raise in year one and merit-based raises of at least 1.5% in years 2 and 3.

AFSCME Local 328’s new agreement guarantees across-the-board raises of 7% in year one and 5% in years two and three.

Weyerhaeuser mills and log yards across the Northwest have been silent as the lumber giant faces off against its own workers.

Central City Concern workers will get raises totaling 14.5% over the coming year and another 3% in 2024 under the new contract.

If ratified by members, it would include across-the-board raises of 7%, 5%, and 5% over three years, and ratification bonuses.

Machinists District Lodge W24 members overwhelmingly rejected what Weyerhaeuser called its “final” contract offer, and authorized a strike.

AFSCME Local 88 and Multnomah County are closer to agreement on a new three-year contract covering more than 3,000 county employees.

More than 7,000 AFSCME-represented workers at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) could strike as soon as Oct. 7.

Students in several Washington school districts are beginning the school year with a lesson in union organizing.

Over 600 ambulance crew members are voting on a a tentative agreement that brings more predictable schedules, more paid time off and raises.

It’s the end of the line for railway union negotiations covering all 12 freight rail labor unions and 115,000 workers.