The AFT-Oregon Member Organizer Institute is seeking member organizers—UAOSU members who want to develop their organizing skills to build their union through outreach to other employees about their issues, rights in the workplace and how we can improve our lives and communities together as union members. The program runs September 25, Read more…
Dear [Colleague], Your bargaining teams have been busy beavers this summer! Now that we have come to agreements on how Paid Leave Oregon will be implemented at OSU and dropping the letter requirement for Instructor, FRA, and Research Associate promotions for the upcoming year, we turned our attention to the Read more…
Dear Colleagues, Your bargaining team met with the administration team on July 10, 2023, and the two parties concluded an agreement on the implementation of Paid Leave Oregon that secured important protections for bargaining unit members. Read on for more details on this agreement and additional UAOSU updates. Our agreement ensures that no bargaining unit member Read more…
Dear colleauges, Your bargaining team met with the administration team for an hour on Wednesday, May 31. We presented the administration team with a counterproposal that reintroduced language they had excised acknowledging the 120 hours of paid family and medical leave that we won in our collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Read more…
Dear Megan, Your bargaining team met with the administration team for an hour on Thursday, May 25. The administration team presented a counterproposal that once again excised the key provisions we proposed. While we were not surprised that they again refused to pick up the employee’s contribution to the new PLO program, we were Read more…
Dear colleagues, Your UAOSU bargaining team met with the administration team on April 26 for an hour regarding the implementation of the Paid Leave Oregon (PLO) program. We presented a counterproposal, consistent with our original proposal from October of last year. The administration’s team continues to insist that due to Read more…
Dear colleagues, Your UAOSU bargaining team met with the administration team on April 12 for a ninety minute session regarding the implementation of the Paid Leave Oregon (PLO) program. At that time, we were presented with a counterproposal. Our last proposal, which remains consistent with our original proposal from October Read more…
Dear Colleagues, Your UAOSU bargaining team met with the administration team on March 8 for an abbreviated, 30-minute session regarding the implementation of the Paid Leave Oregon (PLO) program. At that time, we presented a counterproposal for negotiation. The proposal is consistent with our original proposal from October of last Read more…
The AFT-Oregon Member Organizer Institute is seeking member organizers—UAOSU members who want to develop their organizing skills to build their union through outreach to other employees about their issues, rights in the workplace and how we can improve our lives and communities together as union members. The program runs April 3, Read more…
We met with the administration’s bargaining team on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 to continue negotiations over the implementation of Paid Leave Oregon (PLO), the state’s new program that will provide up to twelve weeks of paid leave to most Oregon workers. PLO allows individual employers the option to pay all Read more…