Collective bargaining

A tentative agreement provides 3% raises and addresses union concerns about overwork and pay equity. Vote results will be announce Nov. 15.

Four unions at the Portland truck plant ratified new five-year agreements that raise wages $4, and hold the line on health insurance costs.

At the school bus contractor for Portland Public Schools, about 300 workers won an immediate $6 an hour increase.

Priority issues are inadequate pay and a short staffing crisis. They’ve been working without a contract since Aug. 31.

Bargaining has rarely been so contentious at Kaiser, which for decades touted itself as a union partner and model employer.

Units totaling over 34,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in Oregon and California have signaled they're ready to strike after 10 days notice.

The strike by 60,000 members of IATSE will begin on Oct. 18 if no deal with producers has been reached by then.

Members of Service Employees Local 49 are fighting for wage increases, improved job safety, and to stop the hospital from outsourcing jobs.

No contract? No Corn Flakes. About 1,400 Kellogg’s workers in Mich., Neb. Penn., and Tenn. struck Oct. 5 after months of mandatory overtime

Bakers won the fight to keep what they have—and not give concessions—because of solidarity: their own, their co-workers, and their community.

If 60,000 behind-the-scenes production workers walk out, it would be the biggest ever strike in the film and television industry.

CWA says it's the first group of bank employees to unionize in more than 40 years. At $20.50 an hour and over, wages may top the industry.

Negotiations aren’t going well at 360 Sheet Metal in Vancouver. Union leaders say the company is going through the motions in bargaining.

Increasingly, Kaiser's union partnership appears to be unraveling, and for the second time in two years, it could be nearing a strike.

‘No contract, no snacks’ Nabisco strikers are saying—their livelihoods on the line in a nationwide struggle against corporate greed.

David Woods is the lead union negotiator trying to bargain a new contract at Nabisco. We spoke with him by phone Aug. 26.

It’s been a long time coming. Provoked by round after round of demands by Nabisco for concessions, the union BCTGM reached a breaking point.

Is Kaiser’s reputation as a model union employer about to end? In bargaining, it's now proposing to pay new hires dramatically lower wages.

Workers struck for wage increases and an end to forced overtime, but got only very modest improvements in the modified employer offer.

About 1,800 janitors will see wages rise $2.25 an hour over the next three years, reaching $18 an hour in year three.