Collective bargaining

Five months after Kaiser pharmacy and imaging workers struck in Oregon, UFCW Local 555 says members ratified new four-year agreements.

The utility company informed union workers that it plans to train non-union staff to do their jobs in case there is a strike.

Home care RNs have a critical decision to make: agree to be paid less than hospital nurses, or go on strike a second time for equal pay.

A new four-year contract will raise wages more than 25% and end an unfair “two-tier” wage system that pays new hires less than senior workers.

Bargaining with about 250 postdoctoral researchers, OHSU's wage offer is remarkable: a three-year contract with raises of 0% each year.

A new agreement with UNITE HERE Local 8 raises wages and restores automatic daily room cleaning at the Hilton and Duniway hotels in Portland.

Workers at the Clarios auto battery plant in Canby, Oregon, ratified a new four-year agreement Feb. 20 that limits mandatory overtime.

Oregon Symphony is paying 50% more for the Schnitzer, and arts tax funds are being diverted to smaller groups.

A new four-year contract raises pay 18-21% for about 150 faculty members represented by the MHCC Faculty Association.

Salem-Keizer Education Association represents more than 2,600 teachers in Oregon’s second-largest school district.

The five-year contract with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 raises starting wages about 22% and adds Juneteenth as a paid holiday.

In the past Boeing schemed to squeeze concessions out of workers and taxpayers. This year union leaders are looking for a reboot.

After two years of organizing and strikes by baristas, Starbucks announced Feb. 27 that it wants a reset with Starbucks Workers United.

They make $16.28 an hour. The director makes $195,000. Library workers mob the board to say it’s time for a raise.

PeaceHealth hired strikebreakers to temporarily replace home health and hospice nurses during the strike.

The three-year contract covers 56 trades workers. It raises starting pay $9 an hour on average and adds new safety provisions.

Portland Sign Co. became the second company to sign a union contract with IBEW Local 48, and a third may be close behind.

2023 was the biggest strike year in decades. We asked readers who struck last year to tell what it was like.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s Portland office is fully staffed for the first time in almost two years.

Alaska Airlines flight attendants voted 99.48% to authorize a strike, and flight attendants at 3 other airlines are in late-stage mediation.