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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
