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ATU Local 757
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
Union democracy
Shirley Block wins top office at ATU 757
Incumbent Bruce Hansen voted out after one term
In Memoriam
Helen Nickum, 1928-2015
The longtime ATU Local 757 secretary formerly worked for a Congresswoman and U.S. Senator
People
Labor attorney Susan Stoner retires after decades defending bus drivers
An important figure in Local 757, she also authored a series of historical mystery novels
Collective bargaining
ATU and TriMet ratify new labor contract
Terms include 3% raises, and concessions on health care
Collective bargaining
ATU reaches tentative contract with TriMet
Details won't be released until late October, after members have had a chance to vote on it.
Collective bargaining
TriMet calls an end to bargaining with ATU Local 757
Union files unfair labor practice complaint alleging the transit agency bargained in bad faith
Labor History
Labor attorney publishes fourth in series of novels about Portland’s trade union past
The historical mystery series follows a fictional trade union spy in early 1900s Portland.
Collective bargaining
Contract settlement averts school bus driver strike at Portland Public Schools
Deal reached after contractor First Student backed off a "two-tier" contract proposal.
Collective bargaining
ATU Local 757 unhappy with TriMet audit
Union says state audit presents management's view of its problems.
Health Care
TriMet, ATU may join together to fight health cost burden
Portland Commissioner Steve Novick wants to bring both sides together to focus on better health
Collective bargaining
Going for broke: TriMet wants a major rewrite of the union contract
Three months into bargaining, the transit agency is still explaining its dozens of proposed changes
Collective bargaining
TriMet’s long-delayed bargaining off to a slow start
TriMet wants further health benefit cuts, and no more laundering workers overalls.
Collective bargaining
ERB: Arbitrator’s ruling stands, but TriMet broke law
The transit agency is ordered to pay $136,000 and stop trying to collect back-premiums
