Leadership change at Portland Jobs with Justice Mar 31, 2021 Will Layng is leaving as executive director to return to SEIU, where he formerly worked as organizing director at Local 49.
Springfield nursing home strike ends with mass resignation Mar 3, 2021 After 23 residents died in nine weeks, workers struck for two weeks to demand union recognition. The nursing home’s investor owners refused.
Union-backed initiatives would punish GOP walkout Mar 5, 2020 The measures would fine Oregon lawmakers who fail to show up — and disqualify them from running for re-election.
Portland Public Schools ratifies union contracts with maintenance, custodians, food service workers Feb 5, 2020 All told, nearly 600 workers will get raises of 3% to 5% a year and more over the next few years.
Tentative deal avoids strike at seven Oregon universities Oct 2, 2019 The agreement includes the largest cost-of-living raise that university support workers have received in more than a decade.
Homecare workers get retirement, harassment policy in new contract Sep 18, 2019 30,000 workers will get $15 an hour under the new contract.
Workers could strike Oregon universities Sept. 30 Sep 18, 2019 The strike would involve about 5,000 SEIU Local 503 members at seven public universities.
SEIU deal with Oregon includes 10-15% raises Aug 1, 2019 The new two-year union contract covers 24,000 state employees.
Oregon lawmakers vote to cut public employee retirement contributions Jun 6, 2019 Democrats led the charge to divert up to 2.5 percent of public worker pay to shore up PERS.
The untold story of a big union win Jan 2, 2019 Before Oregon home care workers unionized in 2001, they earned $8.14 an hour and had no benefits, not even workers’ comp for injuries on the job. A new documentary tells their story.
