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Collective bargaining

OHSU grad workers win first contract

The unanimously ratified contract includes an immediate $80-a-month increase, three annual raises of 3%, dependent health coverage, and caps hours of work.
Workers Rights

OHSU admits to trolling AFSCME, agrees to full investigation

An outside attorney will interview dozens of OHSU employees to determine if other members of the management bargaining team took part in deceptive trolling.
Comment

Graduate employees are workers too

Oregon university officials are pulling out all the stops to devalue and disrespect graduate student workers. 
Union Organizing

Physicians-in-training unionize at OHSU

About 830 doctors are about to become members of Oregon AFSCME.
Collective bargaining

Workers at OHSU ratify new deal after managers outed for trolling

Over 6,000 workers will get $1,000 bonuses and raises totaling 9.5% in new three-year deal.
Collective bargaining

Troll on the Hill

At OHSU, a union volunteer uncovered management bargaining team members engaging in obscene social media trolling, leading to the resignation of OHSU's director of human resources.
Collective bargaining

AFSCME Local 328 declares impasse at OHSU

A strike authorization vote will be held Aug. 19-29 if a settlement hasn’t been reached.
Collective bargaining

Union to OHSU: Health workers need sick days

As an early signal that they’re unwilling to make concessions in their next union contract, over 1,000 AFSCME Local 328 supporters rallied June 13 at OHSU.
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

OHSU grad students unionize with AFSCME

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

Construction trades unions say goodbye to retiring OHSU president Joe Robertson

Robertson was lauded as a ‘Building Trades champion’ for transforming the South Waterfront and Marquam Hill with union labor.
Collective bargaining

New three-year nurse contract at OHSU

If ratified as expected members of Oregon Nurses Association would see wages rise more than 9 percent.
Building our communities

‘Unite for the Knight’ helps raise $508 million

Labor and management coalition part of OHSU effort to raise $1 billion for cancer research
Building our communities

Firefighters pitch in for Knight fight against cancer

Members from 18 IAFF locals contributed $21,000 toward the Knight Cancer Challenge.
Building our communities

Labor joins with business to raise funds to knock out cancer

Phil Knight’s $500 million pledge spurs labor to join business for OHSU cancer research
Worker safety

OR-FACE Program tracks and investigates work-related deaths

Logging was Oregon's most fatal industry in 2011
Union democracy

Oregon Nurses Association joins American Federation of Teachers

ONA says the move will enhance nurses' voice in an era of hospital consolidation and cost-cutting
Politics

Governor nominates Oregon unionists to key posts

Ken Allen, Michael Rose, Felisa Hagins and Ben Stange go before Senate for approval.
Collective bargaining

Three-year pact raises pay for 5,300 AFSCME members at OHSU

But gains are smaller for members who participate in PERS.
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