On August 21, after the Union rejected management’s offer of 21 furlough days and a 2year wage freeze for classified workers in the Oregon University System, management walked away from union contract bargaining.
The union finally got a new bargaining session scheduled for Friday September 4 at Western Oregon University. You may ask why then and there? When bargaining occurs on one of the larger campuses, the union has more members, so the rallies are bigger and louder. Western is a relatively small campus and when coupled with a bargaining session the Friday before a holiday weekend, management is banking on a relatively uneventful day.
We need to make sure that management gets more than they expect. We need a large crowd prepared to send a strong, loud message that OUS workers are State workers too and should not be expected to make a greater sacrifice than their brothers and sisters working in DAS agencies.
Please take a long lunch and come to a noon rally at Hammersly Library on the Western Oregon University Campus in Monmouth. Western is about a ½ hour drive from most Salem worksites. Be sure to bring your whistles and thunder sticks.
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