We are excited to report we reached tentative agreement on all outstanding articles on our first collective bargaining agreement with the Assembly! We are really pleased with the work of both teams to get us to this point and appreciate the successful working relationship we developed over the course of our bargaining. We are looking forward to continuing to…

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Respectful Workplace MOU We’d like to share an exciting update about our bargaining progress. Our post session meetings with the employer continue to be very productive. We have reached agreement on several subjects, and continue to work through the last remaining articles. Out of the last few meetings we made significant progress on an issue…

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Safe Salem 2023 payroll taxAs some of you may have heard, the City of Salem is considering a payroll tax to be applied to nearly all employees working in the city.  This payroll tax is part of Safe Salem 2023 and will include state workers. For hybrid workers that work part of their time in Salem,…

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Since last week’s update, there has been a lot of talk about the lack of bargaining during session and some incorrect information is being treated as fact, when it is not. “Bargaining Update. The Parties agreed at the onset of bargaining to pause during both the short and long sessions. With sine die on the…

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We are sorry for the delay in getting a correspondence out following our meeting in April. There are a few things we want to update on since April 18th: First, we would like to update you on the discussion of a potential ULP. IBEW Local 89’s intent was to potentially file a ULP on the…

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In February we reported that the bargaining committee has continued to ask the employer to meet, but the Employer has not committed to bargaining dates during Session. We recognize some have concerns about workload during session and the need to balance the desire to reach a bargaining agreement with the need to ensure workplace expectations…

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We hope Legislative Session is going smoothly for all. For those that are new to the role of Legislative Assistant, welcome! As you may know, IBEW Local 89 is in the process of bargaining a first contract and solidifying our standing as a union represented position. Negotiations to build a first contract formally began in…

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Since our last update in mid-October, there is much to report. Negotiations began with the Union providing a full contract of Articles to the Employer in January 2022, and the Employer and Union have been working from that suite of proposals since May. The Employer and the Union have now tentatively agreed to 25 proposals…

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As we reported earlier this year, the Oregon Legislative Aides unit is a first-of-its-kind bargaining unit which follows a new bargaining structure and the initial bargaining process was delayed while both parties were determining the best course of action to proceed into bargaining this first contract. Since then, the IBEW Local 89 bargaining committee, which…

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This week, we have continued to bargain in Salem as planned. We have another call scheduled tomorrow for those that were unable to attend Monday night’s meeting and would like the latest information on bargaining. Thank you for your patience as we tried to coordinate a bargaining update call. Due to a number of factors, we…

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