Painters Local 10

A day after the lopsided vote to reject SPCO’s offer, a competing contractor group offered $4.30 an hour over the same time frame.

After weeks of escalating strike action, Painters Local 10 reached a deal that if ratified will raise compensation by $3.50 to $4 an hour.

The pickets are protesting contractors’ failure to provide information that would justify their refusal to offer more than a 25¢ raise.

Local Painters union members have been falling behind for a generation. They’re not gonna take it any more.

The union’s three-year collective bargaining agreement with the Signatory Painting Contractors Organization of Oregon and Southwest Washington expires March 31, 2020.