Along with the big win for more vacation time, the City has added another 64 hours to the 40 hours allowed for Dependent Care Accrual. The new yearly balance of 104 hours will be allowed for Dependent Care time effective immediately and is being retroactively dated for July 1st, 2018. What does this mean? It […]

One of the issues we wanted to address in bargaining was the City’s vacation accrual rates. The City was lagging behind what other compared to other local government agencies. Although we were unable to win any substantive changes at the bargaining table, PTE secured an agreement to form a joint labor management committee to look […]

I am proud to issue this report as President of Oregon AFSCME for June 2018 The Oregon AFSCME constitution revised at our 2017 convention has been approved by AFSCME International. The new constitution has been posted for viewing as well as all of the amendments that were adopted at our convention. As you are likely […]