Collective bargaining

UNITE HERE is calling for a boycott of Hyatt hotels nationwide.

The County drops takeback demands, and agrees to flextime, worker-manager ratios and modest raises.

Nine days after voting to strike at Pacific Power, IBEW Local 125 members ratified a new contract.

Supporters will go to the union salon for a haircut, and show their union colors.

150 workers at a Wilsonville Xerox plant have been working without a contract since July.

If no agreement is reached, workers expect to strike or be locked out the day after Labor Day.

Twenty-two workers at Free Geek, a local computer recycler, ratified their first union contract July 19.

Union bargainers agree — for the first time — to give up fully-paid health coverage.

At a paper mill in Wauna, Oregon, USW ratified Georgia-Pacific’s final contract proposal.

A late-breaking contract settlement averted a planned strike at Mt. Hood Community College.

A union contract at TriMet which covers 2,000 bus and rail operators, mechanics, and support staff expired Nov. 30, 2009.

Georgia-Pacific has changed since it was bought in 2005 by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch.

A new three-year contract provides for increases of $1.75, $2, and $2.25.

Newly unionized Dosha Salon and Spa hired former Oregon Republican Party chair Bob Tiernan to oversee bargaining.

A belt-tightening union contract wasn’t good enough for well-connected critics at a March 7 school board meeting.

The uprising began Feb. 11 when Republican Scott Walker proposed a law to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights.

A new crop of Republican governors has declared war on unions, provoking the biggest showdown since Reagan fired air traffic controllers in 1981.

Amid threats of a wildcat transit strike, a state conciliator on Jan. 28 made headway.

Employers — both private and public sector — propose takebacks in a bad economy.

Before leaving office, Gov. Kulongoski asked a state conciliator to help resolve the dispute.