The bargaining team has reached an agreement that honors the dignity of our work and the needs of our community. This resolution serves as a reminder that persistent advocacy for fair standards yields results. We will continue to monitor how these new terms are integrated to ensure the county keeps …
November 16, 2017
Final supporters
Dear Multnomah County Commissioners,
We, the undersigned, support our AFSCME Local 88 bargaining team and respectfully petition you to direct your bargaining team to ensure they work diligently towards a reasonable agreement with our union. Our proposals are not gratuitous.
Union members and the community we serve cannot wait another three years for equity, healthcare, and a living wage. Equity at the County is long overdue, and to be effective it requires a system with checks and balances where frontline county workers are heard. Health care means a benefits plan people can afford to use. A living wage allows staff us live in the county we serve.
Our union has not proposed outrageous demands with hopes of being negotiated back to better-than-average results. We respect and understand the need for responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. We pay taxes. We pay rent.
Regardless, we expect to be bargained with in good faith; not talked around, placated, and dismissed. We support our bargaining team’s proposals, not just for our own benefit, but for the benefit of all workers in our community. Multnomah County should set a high and admirable standard for employers and employees alike in the state of Oregon and nationwide.
We ask that you direct the management bargaining team to work with urgency to reach a contract that reflects the values and the mission of Multnomah County.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
November 7, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
October 11, 2017
137 Comments
It took me 20 years and a transfer and a promotion to get me withing spitting distance of the "median" income for Oregon, That means everyone hired behind me is making less. That seem like we're keeping pace with inflation and housing prices and food and fuel to you?
Our wages are not keeping up with the actual cost of living. Health care premiums already eat a big enough portion of what many of us earn as part-time employees. Please, let’s resolve the contract negotiations in good faith and in an equitable manner. Let us know we’re valued.
Our contract expired in July. We are what makes you look good, but we need and deserve a living wage and healthcare, in a county where the cost of rent and housing is increasing so fast, people are out on the streets. Come to the table and respect our needs.
The current proposals most negatively impact our lowest wage workers and those of us with disabilities and/or chronic health conditions. That's the opposite of equity. We want management to walk their talk starting with our own staff.
A living wage allows me to live in the county we serve. Already the quality of place I can afford to live in at Multnomah County has decreased dramatically. We deserve better. Please respect our reasonable requests.
equity for all!!
It is unfair that we have to use vacation time when we cannot make it to worok on snow day because we are essential employees. Others are staying at home and getting paid!
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The bargaining team has reached an agreement that honors the dignity of our work and the needs of our community. This resolution serves as a reminder that persistent advocacy for fair standards yields results. We will continue to monitor how these new terms are integrated to ensure the county keeps …
November 16, 2017
Final supporters
Dear Multnomah County Commissioners,
We, the undersigned, support our AFSCME Local 88 bargaining team and respectfully petition you to direct your bargaining team to ensure they work diligently towards a reasonable agreement with our union. Our proposals are not gratuitous.
Union members and the community we serve cannot wait another three years for equity, healthcare, and a living wage. Equity at the County is long overdue, and to be effective it requires a system with checks and balances where frontline county workers are heard. Health care means a benefits plan people can afford to use. A living wage allows staff us live in the county we serve.
Our union has not proposed outrageous demands with hopes of being negotiated back to better-than-average results. We respect and understand the need for responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. We pay taxes. We pay rent.
Regardless, we expect to be bargained with in good faith; not talked around, placated, and dismissed. We support our bargaining team’s proposals, not just for our own benefit, but for the benefit of all workers in our community. Multnomah County should set a high and admirable standard for employers and employees alike in the state of Oregon and nationwide.
We ask that you direct the management bargaining team to work with urgency to reach a contract that reflects the values and the mission of Multnomah County.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
November 7, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
October 11, 2017
137 Comments
I was very disappointed that even back in the very first bargaining sessions (April?), management was completely unprepared to bargain, and brought nothing to the the table. For months they have dragged their feet. I find this to be disrespectful, and not worthy of our government.
It took me 20 years and a transfer and a promotion to get me withing spitting distance of the "median" income for Oregon, That means everyone hired behind me is making less. That seem like we're keeping pace with inflation and housing prices and food and fuel to you?
Our wages are not keeping up with the actual cost of living. Health care premiums already eat a big enough portion of what many of us earn as part-time employees. Please, let’s resolve the contract negotiations in good faith and in an equitable manner. Let us know we’re valued.
Our contract expired in July. We are what makes you look good, but we need and deserve a living wage and healthcare, in a county where the cost of rent and housing is increasing so fast, people are out on the streets. Come to the table and respect our needs.
The current proposals most negatively impact our lowest wage workers and those of us with disabilities and/or chronic health conditions. That's the opposite of equity. We want management to walk their talk starting with our own staff.
A living wage allows me to live in the county we serve. Already the quality of place I can afford to live in at Multnomah County has decreased dramatically. We deserve better. Please respect our reasonable requests.
equity for all!!
It is unfair that we have to use vacation time when we cannot make it to worok on snow day because we are essential employees. Others are staying at home and getting paid!
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I was very disappointed that even back in the very first bargaining sessions (April?), management was completely unprepared to bargain, and brought nothing to the the table. For months they have dragged their feet. I find this to be disrespectful, and not worthy of our government.