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Union Organizing

Workers vote to unionize at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare

About 270 mental health and addiction recovery workers unionized with Oregon AFSCME in a series of elections held in October and November.
Union Organizing

OHSU grad students unionize with AFSCME

Union authorization cards signed by a majority of the 250 students were submitted Aug. 29.
Jobs

Union-backed coalition pushes bold vision for Broadway corridor project

Redevelopment of the 32-acre downtown site will set the tone for what kind of city Portland will be.
Collective bargaining

AFSCME members ratify first contract at Volunteers of America

The employer's hard-line stance crumbled a week before VOA’s annual fundraising gala, which the union planned to picket.
Oregon

Oregon public employee unions drop corporate tax transparency initiative to focus on defensive ballot fights

To unite business and labor against a pair of anti-tax measures, governor Kate Brown brokers a stand-down on a union-backed initiative.
Union Organizing

At Outside In, an overwhelming vote to unionize

A union campaign that began in the wake of a stabbing ended with a 88 to 18 vote for AFSCME.
Collective bargaining

Several top Oregon union leaders arrested

Ten union leaders and supporters refused to leave the offices of nonprofit Volunteers of America Portland, which has stonewalled union bargaining.
People

Sam Gillispie signs out

Gillispie, 69, is retiring after a 43-year career in the union movement working for AFSCME and UFCW Local 555.
Collective bargaining

Volunteers of America presents an anti-union ‘final offer’

CEO Kay Toran proposes no raises and a "right to work" rule that would undermine the union.
Workers Rights

Meet the “anti-union” organizers

Freedom Foundation is showing up at workplaces and knocking on doors in Washington and Oregon to try to talk workers out of paying union dues.
Collective bargaining

At Volunteers of America, still no contract

The publicly funded non-profit has adopted a ‘right-to work’ stance.
Collective bargaining

Strike at Lane County

A week-long strike shuts county clinics and dumps in a dispute over pay and health care.
Jobs

PSU food service contract changes hands, union contract remains

At PSU, Salt and Straw ice cream and Stumptown Coffee will be served by AFSCME members.
People

5 questions for Stacy Chamberlain

Oregon AFSCME's new executive director talks about growing up union, about the threat of a pending Supreme Court case, and about what gives her hope.
Collective bargaining

State worker unions reach tentative agreement on ‘lean budget’ raises

Oregon AFSCME's new two-year contract covers 3,000 employees at 14 state agencies.
Oregon

Labor may go to the Oregon ballot on tax reform and workers rights

Oregon’s biggest unions are laying the groundwork for initiatives on the 2018 ballot — in case this year's Democratic-led Oregon Legislature doesn’t deliver.
Collective bargaining

City managers rejected union solution to reduce the time 911 callers spend waiting on hold

AFSCME Local 189 said a sizable pay raise would help recruit and retain more staff, but an arbitrator picked management's counterproposal.
Politics

May primary election results for Northwest Oregon

Passage of two big bonds is good news for local building trades unions
Union democracy

2017 Oregon AFSCME convention

The 25,000-member union has fights ahead over budgets and a looming anti-union court case.
Politics

Labor weighs in on May school board and bond elections

Most of the endorsements are for school boards and school bond measures.
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