Collective bargaining

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.

Contract ratification began Aug. 3 and will run through Aug. 22, at which point the results will be announced.

Members of SAG-AFTRA are now in their third week of a nationwide strike that has shut down most film and TV productions since July 14.

Consulting firm Baker Tilly conducted the study, which shows that on average, Clark County wages trailed other employers by 4.7% to 9%.

SEIU Local 49 picketed three hospitals July 24-28 to protest unsafe staffing and draw attention to difficulty getting a new union contract.

Health techs are demanding living wages in the next union contract with Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.

The contract covers almost 700 firefighters. In addition to regular cost of living adjustments, it increases pay 4.5% over four years.

At least seven Jeopardy! contestants who hope to compete in the annual Tournament of Champions say they won’t take part.

An estimated 340,000 Teamsters-represented workers at UPS are set to strike after their contract expires if no new agreement is in place.

Two unions representing nearly 30,000 Oregon state workers reached agreements that would provide a cumulative 13% raise over two years.

Photojournalists and editors say the station’s corporate owner is trying to undo hard-won agreements over staffing and union jurisdiction.

Joint mediation with Providence Portland, Providence Seaside, and Providence Home Health and Hospice is scheduled for Aug. 9.

In year one, journeymen will make $42.86 an hour plus $19.38 in benefits for a total compensation package of $62.24 an hour.

The master agreement with signatory contractors expired June 30, and bargaining has reached impasse. Members will take a strike vote Aug. 5.

The deal with wall and ceiling contractors aligns with the one ratified in May with the larger Signatory Painting Contractors Organization.

Oregon’s first nurse strike in decades built solidarity and prompted legal questions about the use of strikebreakers. But no contract, yet.