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Jobs

PSU announces faculty layoffs

More than 7.5% of PSU-AAUP members got layoff notices. Under the union contract, workers must receive at least eight months advance notice.
Collective bargaining

PSU grad student faculty ratify their first-ever union contract

The three-year deal covers about 800 workers and is the culmination of a joint campaign by AFT-Oregon and American Association of University Professors.
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.
Union Organizing

PSU graduate assistants file for union recognition

When it becomes official in about 3 weeks, PSU will have 800 new union members.
Union Organizing

PSU won’t fight union campaign among its grad students

A memo from school administration orders managers to stay neutral.
Union Organizing

Graduate employees at Portland State form union, ask president for neutrality

Grad student employees are already unionized at UO and OSU.
Collective bargaining

PSU profs say new contract is Step 1 in combatting creeping corporatization

Greater job security, and modest raises, will help stabilize faculty
Collective bargaining

Professors get contract after PSU drops takeaway demands

Averting a strike, new AAUP contract improves salaries and job security
Collective bargaining

Portland State University professors authorize strike

AAUP says they’re ready to walk out to promote greater stability and defend faculty role in governance
Collective bargaining

PSU professors set timetable for strike

Top issues are low pay, job insecurity, and lack of respect
Collective bargaining

Oregon’s most proletarian professors protest bottom 10 percent pay

Talks head into mediation with PSU proposing less-than-inflation raises
Politics

In Oregon’s new higher ed boards, labor gets a seat or two

Business will be amply represented on the new governing boards.
Collective bargaining

SEIU 503 prepares to strike at 7 Oregon universities

Wages are a key sticking point for 4,200 university support workers.
Collective bargaining

Oregon University System getting tough with unions

OUS wants union rights concessions, a shift in health costs and raises less than inflation
Workers Rights

Oregon Supreme Court ruling expands union grievance rights

Workers can’t be denied union grievance rights just because they’re pursuing outside legal action.

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