Mid-Willamette Valley Labor Solidarity Alerts: Some Things To Feel Good About!

Monday, September 2, 2024

Some Things To Feel Good About!

The Northwest Labor Press has reported that "Just hours before a strike was to begin, Oregon AFSCME reached tentative agreement with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) on a first contract for a unit of about 250 postdoctoral researchers."

Photo from The Northwest Labor Press

The STAND has carried reports that "Mount Vernon paraeducators, district reach tentative agreement after 2-day strike – A spokesperson for the paraeducators’ union, Public School Employees of Washington SEIU Local 1948, confirmed Thursday that the parties reached a deal. The agreement includes a 5.2% raise for all paraeducators this year, along with other perks" and that "UAW and Cornell reach tentative contract agreement, strike could end next week – The union said it was able to reach a deal on over 40 demands with Cornell leadership, including an average wage increase of 21% to 25.4% over the life of the four-year tentative agreement. Workers in positions with the lowest pay grades in the bargaining unit will receive significant pay raises in the first and second year of the contract, according to the UAW. The union said workers will remain on strike until a contract is ratified. The soonest Cornell employees could return to work is Sept. 3." The reports came from KING 5 and The Ithaca Voice.

Photo from The STAND and The City/Alex Krales.

The Stand has also carried reports that '"More Workers Are Filing For — and Winning – Union Elections Than in Any Year in the Past Decade – Workers are petitioning for more elections for union representation — and winning more of them – than any other year in a decade, with more than 75% of all private-sector organizing attempts from mid-2023 to mid-2024 resulting in union victories. Nationally, the growth in election petitions with the federal National Labor Relations Board reversed a decade of decline, according to the report, reaching “a level not seen since 2015,”' and the current win rates “outpace any since 2005.”' This report came from The City.

Firefighters’ Union Members wore “Trump is a Scab” shirts to

welcome JD Vance to their union convention.

HuffPost is reporting that the Democratic National Committee has done "its first paid media buy at the unofficial start of the fall campaign season" with billboard ads calling Trump an "Anti-Union Scab." HuffPort columnist says that the ads will run in "Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Monday as its first paid media buy to kick the season off" and that the ads will be in "English and Spanish, will show an unflattering picture of Trump’s face next to the caption “Trump’s an anti-union scab!” and will appear in a mix of high-traffic and other locations in those swing states."