Collective bargaining

Bargaining will resume again next year with Australian multinational Bradken … if “decert” fails

City workers get cost-of-living, mostly, and preserve protection against outsourcing

Greater job security, and modest raises, will help stabilize faculty

Averting a strike, new AAUP contract improves salaries and job security

As strike neared, district faced unified teachers backed by broad public support

DCTU signs off on compromise language over contracting out

AAUP says they’re ready to walk out to promote greater stability and defend faculty role in governance

City appears in no hurry to reach deal with 1,600 workers in the DCTU

Rules at the PIRG fundraiser will be slightly less draconian under the first-ever union agreement.

The strike raised the profile of unions in Southern Oregon.

The three-year deal lightens teacher workload and provides 2.3 percent annual raises

Top issues are low pay, job insecurity, and lack of respect

Details won't be released until teachers vote on the tentative agreement.

Schools open with substitute teachers, but less than half the students attend

Tallied Feb. 10, the vote is 462 for and 635 against.

Some members object to changes on contracting out and comp time

Union says state audit presents management's view of its problems.

Workers give up their pension and make other concessions in a contract extended through 2024

Members will vote in the coming weeks whether to approve the new four-year contract

City's declaration that bargaining is done sets timeline for strike as soon as Feb. 12