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Oregon AFSCME
Union Organizing
Physicians-in-training unionize at OHSU
About 830 doctors are about to become members of Oregon AFSCME.
Oregon
Oregon AFSCME: ‘No endorsement, no financial support’ for PERS cutters
All but a few Democrats voted to cut public employee retirement contributions. Now they'll go without AFSCME's support for re-election.
Union Organizing
DePaul treatment center agrees to recognize union
DePaul Treatment Services, an addiction treatment nonprofit, has voluntarily recognized AFSCME as the union for its 122 employees.
Oregon
Public employees file lawsuit to protect PERS retirement benefits
Plaintiffs say SB 1049 is a breach of contract, an illegal taking, and violates the Constitution.
Oregon
How working people and unions fared in the 2019 session of the Oregon Legislature
Lawmakers passed paid family leave and boosted school budgets, but also cut public worker compensation and punted on climate.
Oregon
Oregon lawmakers vote to cut public employee retirement contributions
Democrats led the charge to divert up to 2.5 percent of public worker pay to shore up PERS.
Union Organizing
Refugee nonprofit won’t be union-neutral
IRCO rejects AFSCME’s play-nice request and fires a union supporter.
Workers Rights
Multnomah County may require non-profit contractors to stay union-neutral
A “union-neutrality” ordinance could be one of several reforms aimed at improving Multnomah County social services. Currently, low pay and heavy caseloads at nonprofit contractors are producing high turnover and lower quality services.
Union Organizing
AFSCME on-call workers to Multnomah County: ‘no thanks’
Multnomah County is proposing to recognize 100 on-call workers as part of the union, while leaving 200 out.
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.
