AFSCME Local 2067 represents the main body of City of Salem workers. Their contract expires on June 30 of this year. Contract bargaining started on February 21. The Local is holding an infomational rally at noon on Friday, March 15.in Peace Plaza (the space between the library and the Civic Center). Please show up!
According to the union's website, there have been two negotiating sessions and the second one has been more productive than the first.
Kathy Knock, a Local 2067 leader, did a great interview on KMUZ on January 25 that sets a strong context for contract negotiations. Thanks to Tina Turner-Morfitt, President of the Oregon Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and an AFSCME retiree and a Labor Chapter leader, and Melanie Zermer of KMUZ for doing that grewat interview. Sister Knock breaks down some complex issues in the interview.
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