Collective bargaining

Nearly 4,500 teachers in Portland Public Schools began picketing Nov. 1 in the first-ever teachers strike at Oregon’s largest school district.

The pre-apprenticeship nonprofit is hemorrhaging board members and staff and may be losing favor with local unions.

75,000 workers struck Kaiser Permanente for 3 days. Now a 4-year agreement brokered by the U.S. Secretary of Labor provides 21% raises.

A strike is likely and will include lab techs, service, and maintenance workers at PeaceHealth hospitals in Vancouver and Longview.

Dentists say seeing more patients per day will lower the quality of care they offer to Medicaid enrollees and uninsured or homeless patients.

Bankruptcy is the fallout from a fight for two jobs on the Portland docks. The longshore union has been battling in court for over 10 years.

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.