Collective bargaining

With no contract after three years, Starbucks workers vote to strike, demanding fair pay and real bargaining progress.

Nearly 45,000 Kaiser workers struck for better pay and respect; weeks later, unions say little progress has been made.

Following decades of labor peace, it’s the fourth strike at Kaiser since 2023.

Bargaining with Multnomah County has now stretched out three months past expiration of the most recent contract.

Over 800 school support staff in Vancouver Public Schools got a new three-year contract several weeks after authorizing a strike.

The unit of 64 union reps, organizers and support staff is represented by Teamsters Local 223, and had been without a contract since June 30.

The contracts with SEIU and AFSCME cover 29,500 workers and provide a 2.5% raise Feb. 1, 2026, and 4% on Jan. 1, 2027.

Journalists and photographers ratified their first union contract, securing wages, working conditions, and no story quotas.

4,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in Oregon and Washington are set to strike Oct. 14 for up to five days. Their contract expired Sept. 30.

Laborers Local 483 and the City of Silverton are clashing over pay, inflation raises, and seniority protections.

AFSCME Local 3580's new contract guarantees 2–5% annual wage increases tied to inflation, improving pay and conditions for 500 union workers.

Portland’s IPR workers picket as contract talks stall, seeking job security in the new Office of Community-based Police Accountability.

Amid district threats of legal action, paraeducators and bus drivers held out for fair pay. Then La Center teachers struck.

Members of Operating Engineers Local 701 at the Radius Recycling scrap metal yard approved a new contract after coming close to striking.

UFCW Local 555 reached agreement with Roth’s Sept. 10 on a new three-year union contract, just ahead of a strike that was to start Sept. 11.

Nearly four years after the first Starbucks coffee shop unionized, workers still don’t have a contract.

Reed College custodians are without a new union contract, and the sticking point is a stumper: a proposal that sounds uncontroversial.

Kaiser Permanente contract negotiations are heating up after the healthcare system retracted a tentative agreement on successorship.

The proposed contract also adds four new holidays, where workers will make 1.5 times their normal rate for the first eight hours worked.

Union members are asking subscribers to sign a pledge to cancel their subscription if the company fails to agree to a fair contract.