Collective bargaining

After eight months of bargaining and an overwhelming strike vote, nurses at Columbia Memorial Health reached agreement for a new contract.

Picketing outside the privately owned Coffin Butte landfill, they’re in a fight against a $13.5 billion a year Goliath.

The union representing nearly 400 Yamhill County workers said cost of living raises proposed by the county are insufficient.

Wages will range from $44.41 to $52.36 an hour under the new four-year contract with Operating Engineers Local 701.

With automakers making record profits, the union says it’s time that the workers who make their vehicles got their fair share.

Journeyman compensation will rise to $94.51 by 2027 in the contract with Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Association.

Northwest pharmacists walked out Oct. 1, and 75,000 other Kaiser workers in five states began their own strike Oct. 4.

OFNHP and PeaceHealth are far apart on wages for lab techs and maintenance workers at hospitals in Vancouver and Longview.

The agreement with Oregon Nurses Association covers almost 3,200 nurses there. It also sets safe staffing standards and improves safety.

The vote means the union of 1,350 school secretaries, teaching assistants, and other classified staff, is back to the bargaining table.

PAT is pursuing a strategy known as “bargaining for the common good,” incorporating community members’ ideas into their contract.

About 53,000 workers could strike at The MGM Grand, Caesar’s Palace and the Wynn/Encore if no deal is reached.

Weeklong teacher walkouts at Evergreen School District and Camas School District won major improvements for students.

As of Friday, United Auto Workers will either have a tentative agreement or be striking around the country at GM, Ford, and Stellantis.

Members of ILWU Local 5 at Powell’s Books held a one-day strike Sept. 4 to protest alleged bad-faith bargaining by the company.

Republic Services, which operates the Coffin Butte landfill, cancels bargaining at the last minute and gave non-union workers a raise.

Workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in seven states and Washington D.C. are voting on a strike authorization through Sept. 16.

If they authorize a strike, almost 3,200 nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association could walk out as soon as Sept. 28.

At a cement quarry in Eastern Oregon, a new four-year contract creates a worker training program and provides a 14% raise overall.

Their second contract provides a starting wage of $19. That’s a $2 increase from the previously negotiated salary floor.