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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

New Teamsters contract at AMR raises wages 21 percent over four years

Sep 5, 2018

The 600-member unit provides ambulance service to Multnomah and Clackamas counties in Oregon, and Clark and Cowlitz counties in Washington.

Collective Bargaining

Teacher strike wave hits Washington

Aug 29, 2018

For 60,000 Southwest Washington students, the first lesson of the school year is about union power.

Collective Bargaining

Bargaining under way for 18,000 Oregon grocery workers

Aug 22, 2018

UFCW Local 555’s “Unity Negotiations” will set the terms for workers at Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertsons and more.

Collective Bargaining

Special ed bus drivers ratify long-delayed contract with Portland Public Schools

Aug 21, 2018

The new agreement raises starting pay to $18.50 an hour — up from $16.25 currently.

Collective Bargaining

Medical techs secure a first union contract at Sacred Heart in Eugene

Aug 20, 2018

The new agreement provides annual raises of 3 percent, plus additional raises of 1 to 3 percent halfway through the third year to get members on a unified union wage scale.

Collective Bargaining

Columbia Area Transit in Hood River signs first union contract with ATU Local 757

Aug 20, 2018

The agreement provides an immediate 10 percent raise followed by three annual raises totaling 8.7 percent over the life of the four-year agreement.

Collective Bargaining

Northwest Machinists members approve new four-year contract with Weyerhaeuser

Aug 20, 2018

Members voted down two previous company offers and authorized a strike.

Collective Bargaining

Union bakers picket outside Portland home of Nabisco board member

Jul 25, 2018

The profitable company is halting pension contributions at the same time it pays its executives so much that even shareholders are gagging.

Collective Bargaining

AFSCME members ratify first contract at Volunteers of America

Jul 16, 2018

The employer’s hard-line stance crumbled a week before VOA’s annual fundraising gala, which the union planned to picket.

Collective Bargaining

Kaiser Permanente may be near a deal with breakaway union group

Jul 5, 2018

A national agreement covering 47,000 Kaiser employees may be wrapped up next week.

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