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SEIU Local 49

People

Leadership change at Portland Jobs with Justice

Will Layng is leaving as executive director to return to SEIU, where he formerly worked as organizing director at Local 49.
Workers Rights

Portland Airport implements new $15 wage floor

The new policy would raise wages above $16.55 for 900 service workers in January 2022. SEIU Local 49 calls that too little too late.
Workers Rights

Over 800 Providence hospital workers lose their union over one smudged ballot

It’s the latest decision by Trump appointees on the NLRB who seem determined to reverse labor rights reforms of the Obama era.
Jobs

Roadblock in the Broadway Corridor?

A deal on a community benefits agreement is held up over equity for construction workers.
Jobs

COVID-19 prevention leads Daimler to close Portland truck plant

The closure impacts roughly 700 members of four unions, and comes amid concerns that workers can't all maintain six feet distance.
Collective bargaining

Strike averted at Kaiser Permanente

A tentative deal would raise wages and limit outsourcing.
Collective bargaining

As hospital strike neared, McKenzie-Willamette settled

For some of the least-paid hospital workers, wages will rise 10 percent in two years.
Collective bargaining

Massive Kaiser Permanente strike could come in October

If it happens, it would be the biggest strike in the United States in 22 years.
Union Organizing

Hospital support workers unionize – by one vote – at Providence Portland

In a real-life demonstration that every vote counts, support staff at Providence Portland hospital have won a union by a single vote — after an on-again, off-again campaign that goes back 20 years.
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.
Union Organizing

At Providence Milwaukie hospital, support workers go union

Workers voted 92-54 to join SEIU Local 49.
Union democracy

Kaiser Permanente union coalition splits

The day before bargaining was to begin, unions representing 45,000 members left the coalition, while unions representing 70,700 members remain.
Jobs

Daimler’s Portland truck plant will soon be hiring

Coming in March: Union jobs with family wages and benefits.
Collective bargaining

New System laundry strike ends after two days

Strikers got symbolic support from the laundry's customers and from Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek.
Buying Union

Union-made gift ideas

Buying any gifts this holiday season? If you buy union, you help keep good jobs in the community, and vote with your dollars for enterprises that pay your fellow workers a living wage with benefits.
Collective bargaining

Pushed to the limit, laundry workers strike

New System Laundry wants to pay minimum wage, and double the amount workers contribute to health insurance.
Collective bargaining

Legacy Emanuel settles with SEIU

Strike averted, hospital support workers ratify a new contract.
Collective bargaining

Strike date set at Legacy Emanuel hospital

Over 750 support workers could walk out as soon as Nov. 8.
Union Organizing

Eugene Urgent Care clinic network fights union campaign by SEIU Local 49

The results of an Aug. 17 unionization election are up in the air.
Health Care

Kaiser nurses issue warning: Short staffing could diminish patient care

Nurse union members, frustrated with slow progress on staffing committees, rally outside Kaiser's Northwest headquarters.
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