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Collective bargaining
USW members ratify new contract at Cascade Steel
Wages will rise 3.25% a year for the 280 steel workers at the McMinnville mill.
Nabisco retirees condemn pension cuts
For members and retirees of Portland-based BCTGM Local 364, their union's fight to save pensions at Mondelēz Nabisco is  personal.
SEIU deal with Oregon includes 10-15% raises
The new two-year union contract covers 24,000 state employees.
AFSCME Local 328 declares impasse at OHSU
A strike authorization vote will be held Aug. 19-29 if a settlement hasn’t been reached.
Workers at Cascade Steel Rolling Mills say they’re ready to strike
Schnitzer Steel is asking workers for concessions — at a time when sales are booming and steel prices are up.
Portland-area grocery workers vote to strike
Strike votes continue across Oregon and Southwest Washington in July and August.
Workers at Fred Meyer and Safeway take strike votes
Bargaining between Local 555 and the multi-employer coalition passed the one-year mark June 19, and the two sides remain far apart on wages, health insurance and other proposals.
Union to OHSU: Health workers need sick days
As an early signal that they’re unwilling to make concessions in their next union contract, over 1,000 AFSCME Local 328 supporters rallied June 13 at OHSU.
Union report: men out-earn women at Fred Meyer
UFCW Local 555 is calling on grocery employers to end pay disparity among journey-level grocery workers, in which the average women earns $1.31 an hour less than the average man.
UFCW Local 555 sets strike votes at Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertsons
Meat department workers will vote first on strike authorization.
A picket line of union dentists
A group of 28 dentists at Multnomah County clinics joined Oregon AFSCME last Spring, but they’ve had a hard time reaching agreement on a first contract.
Clark College faculty press for pay parity with K-12 teachers
Union leaders say faculty haven't had more than cost-of-living raises in decades.
Nurses ratify contract at St. Charles in Bend
Nine hundred nurses at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend have a new contract that will raise wages 11.5 percent over the next four-and-a-half years.
Are we bringing the strike back?
Back from rock bottom, strikes exploded in number last year.
Teacher strike wave continues
Los Angeles teachers could have accepted management’s offer and spent the next few years complaining about it. Instead, they went on strike, all 32,000 of them, and won a stunning series of concessions. And in Vancouver, 700 paraeducators and other school support staff won a 17.5% increase hours before their strike was to begin.
LA teachers strike for smaller classes
The first teacher strike in LA in 30 years is the latest in a wave of teacher strikes that began last year.
HALL OF SHAMERS: The millionaire union member athletes who crossed hotel maid strike picket lines
It’s bad enough when regular members of the public cross a strike picket line.
Nabisco back at the table with Bakers
In October and November, the two sides met for bargaining for the first time in more than two years.
Oregon Zoo contracts out food service
Reversing the usual narrative, workers will be better off at Aramark, thanks to skillful union negotiations.
Hawthorne Burgerville becomes the third to formally unionize
Meanwhile, Burgerville has agreed to no tangible improvements since contract bargaining began in May.
