Collective bargaining

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.

With all new leadership and an $825 million strike fund, the union is determined to reverse past concessions.

Two of the three bargaining units that held a five-day strike in June now have significant pay raises, more time off, and safer staffing.

Around 40 workers at the Burgerville near the Oregon Convention Center struck July 28-29 after negotiations with company leaders stagnated.

Newly unionized shipyard painters in Portland and Seattle will get better health insurance and raises totaling $4.06 an hour over 3 years.

The nonprofit that operates several Portland homeless camps fired a whistleblower last year. Now it's at peace with the union.

The two-year contract covers nearly 25,000 workers represented by SEIU Local 503. It provides 13% raises and a one-time $1,500 bonus.

Members of the Association of Flight Attendants say it’s time they got a real raise. And they mean to get it.

TV and film writers have been on strike since May 2, and TV and film actors in SAG-AFTRA have been on strike since July 14.

Teachers also want better security measures, an enforceable limit to class sizes, and public school for every child over the age of 3.

Seven months after bargaining began, there’s no sign the union is near a contract with the natural foods grocery chain.

If arbitration fails to produce a new master agreement, roughly 1,750 members at nearly 60 contractors could strike.

Dentists at the county clinics treat some of the area’s poorest residents: Medicaid enrollees, uninsured, and homeless.

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center declared impasse and walked away from contract negotiations with 14 lab professionals on July 31.

Powell's workers say is the company is refusing to bargain in good faith and ask the public not to shop there in-store or online that day.