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Oregon AFSCME

In Memoriam

Gary Gillespie, 1951-2022

Gillespie, a former president of Oregon AFSCME, served Oregon working people and Eugene residents for more than three decades.
Workers Rights

Homeless nonprofit fires whistleblower

Things aren’t ‘all good’ at All Good Northwest, which runs tiny house villages for the homeless in Portland.
Union Organizing

Support workers at tiny house villages for homeless vote to join AFSCME

In ballots counted June 2, a group of 46 employees who operate tiny house villages for the homeless in Portland voted 15-3 to unionize.
In Memoriam

Ralph Groener, 1941-2022

Ralph Groener, a lobbyist for AFSCME for 28 years, had a knack for being in the right place at the right time.
Union Organizing

Old Town homeless village will close in June

Weeks before a union ballot count at Portland homeless services provider All Good NW, the nonprofit decided to close one of its villages.
Union democracy

New president at Oregon AFSCME

The Oregon AFSCME Executive Board has named one of its members, Fred Yungbluth, Jr. as president until the union’s April 2023 convention.
Building our communities

AFSCME sends solidarity funds from Oregon to Amazon Union

A local AFSCME affiliate and its Oregon statewide council are contributing $10,000 to support the independent Amazon Labor Union.
Union Organizing

Workers at tiny house villages want a union for safety

So-called “safe rest villages” in Portland are highly unsafe for staffers, leading workers to seek union representation with AFSCME.
Union Organizing

Suicide hotline workers vote to unionize

More than 160 employees of nonprofit behavioral health provider Lines for Life are now members of AFSCME Local 1790.
Collective bargaining

First union contract for behavioral health workers in the Columbia Gorge

After 16 months of negotiating, employees of the Mid-Columbia Center for Living will see pay increases totaling 13% over the next three years.
Training the Next Generation

Apprenticeship is catching on

A new union program is skilling up behavioral health workers, and even lawyers are looking at apprenticeship as an alternative to the bar.
Union Organizing

Suicide hotline workers to vote on joining Oregon AFSCME

At Lines For Life, a Portland nonprofit led by former U.S. attorney Dwight Holton, a strong majority of the 160 employees want a union.
Oregon

An early look at Oregon labor’s 2022 legislative agenda

The Oregon Legislature’s “short session” begins Feb. 1 and ends by March 10. As ever, Oregon labor will promote a set of pro-worker bills.
Workers Rights

Multnomah County votes for labor harmony 

At non-profit county contractors, union-busting is about to get a little harder.
Union democracy

New leader takes presidency at Oregon AFSCME

Elizabeth Goetzinger, president of 430-member AFSCME Local 3580 at the Metro regional government, was elected president of Oregon AFSCME.
Union Organizing

Hillsboro clinic the latest to unionize with AFSCME

A recent vote adds 61 workers at Lifeworks NW' Hawthorn Clinic to Oregon AFSCME, part of a wave of union organizing in behavioral health. 
Union Organizing

Workers at Hillsboro library join AFSCME

BY THE BOOK CAMPAIGN: Unlike for private sector workers covered under federal law, Oregon law makes getting a union for public workers—like those at Hillsboro’s Shute Park library, above—as easy as signing cards.
Union Organizing

Medical interpreters unite

Oregon AFSCME will work to win better pay and standards for about 500 medical interpreters—those who translate for Medicaid patients.
Union Organizing

Lifeworks NW workers file for union election

A group of about 60 workers at a Hillsboro mental health and substance abuse crisis center is ready to join Oregon AFSCME.
Collective bargaining

Doctors-in-training at OHSU win contract

Members of a unit of 850 medical interns, residents and fellows have ratified their first union contract since joining Oregon AFSCME in 2019.
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