Collective bargaining

The new agreement sets a $21 minimum wage and raises of 2.4% or at least $1 per hour retroactive to July 2025.

Two other units joined the picket line in two-day solidarity strikes.

If approved, the contract would raise wages 10% for 8,000 workers.

The three-year deals set terms of work at Fred Meyer and QFC.

With the last contracts having expired Sept. 30, this is the longest Kaiser workers have gone without a new contract in more than 25 years.

Three years after a first union vote, New Seasons has a union contract that raises wages 6% to 16.5% and sets rules for humane scheduling.

It probably didn’t hurt that the Seattle-area labor council invested in the media company.

The arbitrator’s decision to reinstate 10 laid-off faculty was supposed to be binding.

A typical journeyman heavy construction equipment operator will earn $62 an hour by the end of the contract.

Therapists, case managers, and nurses at Columbia Wellness ratified a new contract with raises and new protections against AI.

A bargaining unit of over 1,700 research workers at Oregon Health & Science University is one step closer to a strike.

Pediatric and Go Health providers will strike in solidarity.

Strikers are demanding real bargaining that leads to a first-ever union contract.

Advanced practice providers say low pay and lack of support push colleagues to leave and harm patient care.

Grain millers in North Portland celebrate a contract boosting wages up to $30.77 an hour, with raises retroactive to May 2025.

After rejecting MTM’s earlier offer, drivers won 7.5% raises and protected health benefits in a new ATU 757 contract.

To demand a contract, baristas at 65 stores launched an open-ended Red Cup Rebellion strike on one of the chain’s busiest sales days.

After years without a first contract, NSLU members may strike Dec. 17, citing low pay, healthcare cuts, and chaotic scheduling practices.

After a three-day strike, workers secured modest safeguards during the transition to a new police oversight office—but not guaranteed jobs.

While ONA clinicians secured a tentative deal with big pay boosts, 8,000 AFSCME workers at OHSU prepare for a possible December strike.