Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 503 is laying the groundwork for a strike at the Oregon University System (OUS). read more >

Oregon’s largest public employee union announced early this morning it has reached a tentative deal with the state on a two-year contract that would not include unpaid days off, averting a possible strike. read more >

Check out this Oregonian op-ed piece by our own Mary King and U of O's Gordon Lafer! read more >

In Saturday's Oregonian, Betsy Hammond reported that the only members of the higher ed board to vote against another tuition increase this year were the students and WOU faculty member Emily Plec - the only people on the board who really see the impact of continual tuition increases that far outstrip inflation. read more >

EUGENE — Bargainers working on a new faculty contract at the University of Oregon are debating bread and butter issues such as pay and benefits along with questions about who's in charge at the Eugene school. read more >

Supporters of legislation to overhaul how higher education is overseen in Oregon describe the measures as a way to streamline the process and provide better coordination between public colleges and elementary and secondary schools. read more >

More than 780 graduate research and teaching assistants at the Oregon State University are now the proud members of a bargaining unit represented by the Coalition of Graduate Employees/AFT. On March 6, an overwhelming majority of the assistants voted for CGE. read more >

Both the University of Oregon and Portland State University have requested individual institutional boards. Currently the legislation is still being revised and discussed in the state legislature. Oregon State President Ed Ray has asked the legislature to consider OSU and give us the option of having a board. At this point, however, the legislation is too vague and nebulous for the editorial staff to endorse. read more >

Craig Farr of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, joined other financiers for a panel discussion. Union pension money goes into KKR's capital ventures, even as the firm destroys union jobs read more >

Corporations and business groups account for 56% of all lobbying in 2011-12 read more >

The day a new union is certified, the clock starts ticking. After one year, if there’s no contract, the company gets its next chance to bust the union: a minority of workers can file a petition to decertify, and the Labor Board will schedule another vote. If this is the boss’s game plan—as it was at St. Charles—bargaining is an exercise in dela read more >

Fast food restaurants aren't the only places cutting employee hours to avoid paying for health care. College adjunct faculty are also seeing their hours reduced. As employers prepare to implement the Affordable Care Act, it’s not just low-wage fast food workers who are feeling the heat. Adjunct faculty from at least four universities will also see their hours cut as colleges try to reduce the number of full-time employees whose health care they need to cover. read more >

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber's plan to create a Department of Post-Secondary Education likely spurred the legislature's new committee. read more >

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