Collective bargaining

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.

After trying over a year to get a first union contract, 143 medical technologists at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend walked off the job.

BCTGM agreed to extend nationwide contracts to the end of May and raise wage 2.25%. But Nabisco is closing plants in Georgia and New Jersey.

In its first contract with Bakers Local 114, the wholesale bakery will pay overtime after 8.5 hours and raise wages 8% over three years.

Mondelēz agreed to pay $1,040 each to 34 Machinists Lodge 63 members for having subcontracted demolition work on a production line.

An arbitrator will decide if the transit agency can scrap its mechanic apprenticeship program.

The contract locks in raises of $2.25 an hour and enrolls workers in the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension.