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Oregon AFSCME
In Memoriam
Chuck Moffitt, 1952-2019
Moffitt was an accountant at the City of Portland and a union officer in AFSCME Local 189 and Oregon AFSCME.
Union Organizing
Police union raids AFSCME at 911
Members of the Portland Police Association hand-delivered letters to emergency communications dispatchers inviting them to leave their union, AFSCME, and instead join the police union.
Union Organizing
Reversing course, OHSU agrees to recognize grad student union
The two sides have agreed to begin bargaining by March 15.
Union Organizing
OHSU fights effort by grad student researchers to unionize
They work over 50 hours a week doing lab research, but OHSU says they're students, not workers.
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.
