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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

Nabisco extends union contracts but closes plants

Mar 17, 2021

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.

Collective Bargaining

Workers at Grand Central Baking ratify their first union contract

Mar 3, 2021

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.

Collective Bargaining

Machinists win second grievance at Mondelēz  

Feb 4, 2021

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

Collective Bargaining

TriMet declares impasse in contract bargaining

Nov 3, 2020

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

Collective Bargaining

Portland-area Safeway.com drivers win raises in first Teamster contract

Oct 5, 2020

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

Collective Bargaining

DePaul Treatment accused of bad faith bargaining

Aug 6, 2020

Oregon AFSCME says getting management to schedule a bargaining session has been a serious challenge — they’ve met three times since unionizing in September.

Collective Bargaining

AFSCME Local 88 ratifies 1-year contract extension with Multnomah County

Jul 14, 2020

The contract covers 3,200 County workers and the extension provides for a 2.9% cost of living adjustment effective July 1.

Collective Bargaining

Wages rise over $3 an hour in new Painters contracts

Jul 1, 2020

The July 1 raises are the culmination of a ready-to-strike strategy the union set in motion in 2017.

Collective Bargaining

Nude dancers picket Portland clubs

Jul 1, 2020

In the group PDXStripperStrike, dancers borrow some union tactics, and get some union wins.

Collective Bargaining

Heroes no longer? Fred Meyer ends hero pay

Jun 2, 2020

Grocery sales are booming, and prices saw the largest one-month jump in 46 years, and yet Fred Meyer is ending the $2 bonus pay it began March.

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