Collective bargaining

The first contract to be negotiated since members regained the right to strike contains the biggest raises in a generation.

1,100 hospital workers at Legacy Emanuel and Good Samaritan were set to walk out July 15; instead they ratified a five-year contract.

A day after the lopsided vote to reject SPCO's offer, a competing contractor group offered $4.30 an hour over the same time frame.

After weeks of escalating strike action, Painters Local 10 reached a deal that if ratified will raise compensation by $3.50 to $4 an hour.

The pickets are protesting contractors' failure to provide information that would justify their refusal to offer more than a 25¢ raise.

Journeyman roofers in Local 49 will earn a $37.73 wage as of July 1, plus $19.23 in fringe benefits like health and pension.

Though their contracts aren't up til September, all five unionized nursing home chains have agreed to raise CNA starting wages to $18+.

The City's proposed raise jumped from 1% to 9% after public protests and support from hundreds of locals and IBEW members in the region.

Local Painters union members have been falling behind for a generation. They’re not gonna take it any more.

The snack-maker, flush with profits amid a snack boom, is demanding further concessions from its main union.

Providence Health System fought against the union of housekeepers and CNAs at every stage in their three-year campaign to win improvements.

It took 10 weeks to get bargaining dates with Ziply Fiber, and then the company was a no-show at the first scheduled bargaining session.

Faculty at the Oregon Institute of Technology were the last at any Oregon public university to unionize … and the first to strike.

IPS repairs electric motors and generators. Pay under the Metal Trades Council contracts runs from $22 to $33 an hour.

OFNHP says understaffing is leading to high turnover at in Sunnyside’s Emergency Department—40 nurses (57%) have left in the last year.

The agreement also commits Avamere to union neutrality, which would speed unionization at more nursing homes and assisted living centers.

As contract arbitration neared, TriMet management dropped its proposal to eliminate its apprenticeship program for bus mechanics.

Even with the agreement ratified and signed, the hospital's management can’t resist taking potshots at the union.

The IBEW Local 77 linemen, public employees, took their cause to the public, and found overwhelming public support.

Members of a unit of 850 medical interns, residents and fellows have ratified their first union contract since joining Oregon AFSCME in 2019.