OPB News
by Rebecca Ellis
February 9, 2022
The head of the District Council of Trade Unions said Wednesday that union members approved the latest offer by Portland officials, averting a massive strike of city workers slated to begin Thursday morning.
City negotiators made their final offer to the coalition of labor groups last week; it included a 1.6% cost-of-living adjustment retroactive to July 1, 2021, and an additional 5% cost-of-living adjustment on July 1 of this year. The roughly 1,100 city workers that make up District Council of Trade Unions voted on the offer, and the final tally was announced Wednesday morning.
DCTU head Rob Martineau said that a majority of members voted to accept the city offer. The strike scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday morning will not take place.
Fifty eight percent of voting members supported accepting the offer, according to a press release sent out by the local chapter of AFSCME, one of six unions represented by the umbrella coalition.