Hospitals opening up Governor Brown announced, in what appears to be the first COVID-19 related restriction set be lifted, that nonemergency medical procedures can take place again on May 1. The governor with the Oregon Health Authority laid out criteria for hospitals that included hospitals in the region must keep […]
Continue readingUniversity of Oregon prepares cuts, plus other news and events
Over the last week the University of Oregon has released numerous updates, both on precautions it is putting in place and forward looking measures dealing with finances. Many things still remain up in the air and some are in negotiations. On Thursday of last week the university’s provost provided a […]
Continue readingCOVID-19 community updates, resources, and ways to help
A local update on COVID-19 We are in week four of Oregon’s stay at home order and five weeks out since Oregon declared a state of emergency. Research suggests that Oregonians are practicing effective social distancing, reducing transmission of COVID-19 from 50% to 70%. The Institute for Health Metric Evaluation […]
Continue readingUO faculty begins bargaining
The Student Insurgent, the independent radical newspaper at the University of Oregon, recently launched their website. I have been contributing to the publication and below is an adaption of my update on United Academics bargaining that I submitted for this month’s issue. UAUO begins bargaining United Academics of the University […]
Continue readingNew contracts, new unions as year closes
Hey all, I’m back! For the last couple of months I have been in and out of being sick and traveling for the holidays, which has made it hard for me to get out a newsletter. This newsletter will pull in some older developments that I was not able to […]
Continue readingGTFF reaches tentative agreement with UO administration
Late Tuesday night GTFF’s bargaining team reached a tentative agreement with the administration, after 14 hours bargaining. GTFF won no cuts to healthcare on Friday and went into Tuesday to finish the contract that includes 3% raises for minimum salaries and 1.4% raises for all other salaries. Before reaching the […]
Continue readingGTFF authorizes strike, Springfield rezones mobile home park
GTFF members authorize strike, with 95% of voters GTFF announced last Friday that its members voted overwhelmingly to authorized its executive board to call for a strike. 1,044 members overall voted yes, which represents 95% of those that voted. Over 86% of its members participated in the vote. The union […]
Continue readingUFCW 555 ratifies contract plus other news & events
New contract for major grocer workers ratified After over a year of fighting for it, UFCW 555 announced last week that a new contract has been ratified. Among the key highlights in the contract are 20 hour weekly guarantee and no cuts to healthcare. They also made progress to gender […]
Continue readingRespect GEs, respect mobile home residents
UO admin and GTFF present “last best final” offers Both sides in GTFF bargaining gave their “last best final” offers. UO changed the structure of their offers a bit and gave the union a couple different options with regards to healthcare, but still provides cuts to healthcare and does not […]
Continue readingSEIU 503 reaches tentative agreement & more news!
UFCW 555 & Kaiser get their own TAs, GTFF declares impasse Higher ed workers get deal at bargaining table SEIU 503’s higher education bargaining team was able to win concessions from management and get a tentative contract early Saturday morning. This was after being prepared to strike Monday. Included in […]
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