By Central Table Bargaining Co-Chairs Ibrahim Coulibaly and Austin Folnagy  We’d like to share with our fellow members our experience as bargaining team members after reaching a Tentative Agreement (TA) for the next state worker contract. We must begin by…

This victory was hard won by the bargaining team and all of us who took action during this campaign by purpling up, coming to rallies and informational pickets, sending emails to decision-makers, and signing strike pledges. Our union actions made…

We are over 22,000 State workers, joined together in union to make Oregon a better place to live and work. We are DHS workers who provide direct services to over one million Oregonians each year, ODOT workers who put in…

July 28 Cast Your E-Ballot on the Proposed Contract Voting is now open! This Monday, State members received their electronic ballots through email, and the votes are coming in. Voting to ratify a contract is one of the single most…

March 30, 2022 On March 29, our MCEA bargaining team met with management for a sixth, and very important, bargaining session. At this meeting, we presented management with our economic proposal: an 8.5% Cost-of-living adjustment for all MCEA employees effective…

Legislative Session Winds Down The 2021 Legislative Session will come to an end this week. Despite challenging dynamics this has been a positive legislative session for our union. Increased resources meant that state budget writers were able to craft Agency…

Union Contract Settlement Reached! We reached a tentative agreement on our successor contract! Our elected-Bargaining Team is unanimously recommending a “yes” vote to implement the new improvements as of July 1, 2020— a raise and expanded Union rights in our…

We reached a tentative agreement on our successor contract! Our elected-Bargaining Team is unanimously recommending a “yes” vote to implement the new improvements as of July 1, 2020— raises and clarifying processes in our union contract. The details for the…

We are now celebrating a victory that was months, and years, in the making. Despite management’s initial, disrespectful offers, our bargaining team was able to win a great contract with real cost of living adjustments, no increases in healthcare rates,…

Wages Homecare workers will receive a $0.35 per hour raise on January 1, 2020, bringing our base pay to $15 per hour! Our Union has long fought to bring the base pay rates up to $15 to stay above the…