Collective bargaining

Engineers accepted Boeing’s offer, but technical workers rejected theirs and authorized a strike

The contracts covering 14,000 include a 25 cent raise and 15% health insurance increase.

Job security will be a top concern in bargaining between the City of Portland and a union coalition

Fund for the Public Interest negotiators walk out of union bargaining when a reporter shows up.

Both sides are gearing up for battle in the workplace, court, the Capitol, and in public opinion.

For ILWU, grain export troubles started in Longview.

Hales spoke to union grocery workers before a scheduled round of bargaining.

The two sides tangle over whether the public may sit in on bargaining.

A manager also threatens to close Portland call center as workers walk out in protest

The group of 600 joined SEIU 49 in 21 months ago, but never got a contract.

Following an arbitrator's decision, TriMet gets ready to settle accounts with union members

With a weeklong strike, Chicago teachers deliver a blow to a corporate agenda for schools

Draconian policies at the Portland call center lead to sky-high turnover

A Bend hospital recruits strikebreakers, and turns sprinklers on picketers.

But gains are smaller for members who participate in PERS.

A five-store local chain of Aveda-branded salons is nonunion once again.

Though an arbitrator sided with TriMet, the union says some contract provisions are illegal.

TriMet workers will get about $3,000 each under a judge’s order.

After a year-plus of labor violations and no contract, a decert election is set for Aug. 21-22.

After 18 months and no contract for 600 hospital workers, some are pushing to dump the union.