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Collective Bargaining

Nonunion workers are on their own. Union workers bargain collectively with their employers. In the Collective Bargaining section, we report on all aspects of that: negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations; impasses, lockouts, and strikes; and tentative agreements, votes, and ratification of new union contracts.

Collective Bargaining

Beneficial State Bank signs first union contract 

Sep 29, 2021

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.

Collective Bargaining

360 Sheet Metal management: “We do not agree with the law.”

Sep 29, 2021

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

Collective Bargaining

Showdown looms as Kaiser sticks to pay-slashing proposals

Sep 20, 2021

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

Collective Bargaining

Nationwide Nabisco strike intensifies

Sep 1, 2021

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

Collective Bargaining

“They don’t know their workers”

Sep 1, 2021

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

Collective Bargaining

Nabisco workers strike around the nation

Aug 18, 2021

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.

Collective Bargaining

Kaiser Permanente unions shocked by two-tier wage proposal

Aug 18, 2021

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. 

Collective Bargaining

Strike ends at Topeka, Kansas Frito-Lay plant 

Aug 18, 2021

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

Collective Bargaining

SEIU Local 49 ratifies new master janitorial agreement

Aug 18, 2021

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

Collective Bargaining

Painters Local 10 wins wage increases of up to $4.50

Aug 11, 2021

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

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