7.20.23 Agreements on Paid Leave Oregon, External Letters for Promotion, and Other Updates

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…

3.3.23 Counter Proposal on Paid Leave Oregon

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…

12.12.22 Update on Paid Leave Oregon Negotiations

We met with the Administration’s bargaining team this morning to continue negotiating the implementation of Paid Leave Oregon (PLO). Thank you to the members who attended this morning’s bargaining session. Last month, the administration team surprised us by stating that OSU had applied to the state of Oregon to develop their own equivalent paid leave to be administered through Read more…

11.29.22 Paid Leave Oregon Bargaining Update

Paid Leave Oregon (PLO) is a state-wide program that will provide up to twelve weeks of paid leave to all Oregon workers.  Beginning in January, the state program will be financed through employee and employer contributions with leave available next September.  Individual employers have the option to pay all or Read more…