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ATU Local 757

Collective bargaining

Special ed bus drivers at Portland Public Schools declare impasse

Next stop could be a strike – when students return from summer break.
In Memoriam

Ron Heintzman: 1953-2018

The Portland transit union leader helped build Local 757, and was briefly national union president.
Workers Rights

ATU v TriMet: 5-year legal case starts over after state Supreme Court ruling

TriMet, a public transit agency, has spent a bundle to keep the public out of its meetings.
Collective bargaining

Portland Public School bus drivers are speaking up

School bus drivers say they shouldn't be earning $5 an hour less than school district truck drivers who transport food.
Culture

A view from the driver seat

A TriMet bus driver writing under the pseudonym "Deke N. Blue" has been blogging about life behind the wheel since 2012. Now he's published a book.
People

ATU Local 757 blasts TriMet’s pick for general manager

Union leaders hoped the board would hire a change agent from outside to take the transit agency in a different direction.
Collective bargaining

Workers at TriMet ratify new 3-year deal

The vote was 1,220 to 68, overwhelmingly in favor.
Collective bargaining

ATU reaches deal at TriMet

TriMet included approximately 40 union proposals in its final offer, and that proved to be enough to clinch the deal.
Union Organizing

Bus drivers in Hood River win union

Columbia Area Transit drivers will be part of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757.
Workers Rights

TriMet Lift driver fired for answering the call of nature

Portlander Teressa Stevens was fired Aug. 21 from her job as a driver for TriMet LIFT — for urinating in a parking lot.
Collective bargaining

TriMet declares impasse in contract negotiations

This is the third time in a row that bargaining between TriMet and Local 757 has reached deadlock.
Workers Rights

Oregon Supreme Court hears TriMet case

The public transit agency wants to keep union negotiations closed to the public.
Building our communities

Unions react to the MAX killings

One of the murdered Good Samaritans was a union member at the City of Portland.
Building our communities

Northwest Oregon Labor Council banquet recognizes union supporters, raises cash for labor charity

The Labor Appreciation and Recognition Night banquet raised a record $21,000 for Labor’s Community Service Agency.
Collective bargaining

ATU vs. TriMet case headed for Oregon Supreme Court

Can public sector unions and their employers allow the press and members of the public to observe union contract negotiations?
Union Organizing

First Student Corvallis bus drivers stay union

Workers reject a decertification effort in a 41-to-21 vote.
Collective bargaining

TriMet wants two-year extension to its union contract (or does it?)

TriMet management likes the agency’s union contract so much that it’s proposing to extend it two years.
Union democracy

Re-run election confirms Shirley Block and Jon Hunt as leaders of ATU Local 757

Block got 55 percent of the vote, and Hunt got 52 percent.
Workers Rights

Latest TriMet provocation: ‘Paid union orientations are illegal’

Clever TriMet lawyers interpret a new public sector union neutrality law in an unforeseen way.
Labor History

Latest trade union spy novel published to acclaim

Local union attorney Susan Stoner has published the fifth in her series of historical novels
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