Got questions about membership? Click here for FAQs!

Promoting Quality Higher Education– An Investment in Oregon’s Future

NEWSLETTER, OTHER LABOR NEWS

Portland, trade unions reach agreement to avert looming municipal strike

February 15, 2022 / PSU-AAUP

OPB News

by Rebecca Ellis

February 9, 2022

 

The head of the District Council of Trade Unions said Wednesday that union members approved the latest offer by Portland officials, averting a massive strike of city workers slated to begin Thursday morning.

City negotiators made their final offer to the coalition of labor groups last week; it included a 1.6% cost-of-living adjustment retroactive to July 1, 2021, and an additional 5% cost-of-living adjustment on July 1 of this year. The roughly 1,100 city workers that make up District Council of Trade Unions voted on the offer, and the final tally was announced Wednesday morning.

DCTU head Rob Martineau said that a majority of members voted to accept the city offer. The strike scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday morning will not take place.

Fifty eight percent of voting members supported accepting the offer, according to a press release sent out by the local chapter of AFSCME, one of six unions represented by the umbrella coalition.

Read the full article at OPB News

Blog Categories