OPEU TIMELINE
A tentative contract agreement
reached Friday between OUS and
( classified workers of Oregon’s
II public universities averted a strike
*. that wouid have scaled back
campus services. A look back at
the five months of negotiations
shows it was a rocky road:
April 11 Negotiations begin for
terms of final two years of four
j year contract.
fr July 20 A mediator from the
1 Oregon Employment Relations
v Board is called in to facilitate
negotiations.
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Aug. 13 Final offers are exchanged.
Sept. 8 Unhappy with OUS’s final
offer, the unions take a strike vote.
More than 95 percent of classified
workers vote to strike.
Sept. 13 OUS fifes an “unfair labor
practice" complaint, charging that
the unions failed to declare a strike
date.
Sept. 13 OUS makes a modified
final offer to classified workers.
Sept. 14 Unions send a letter to
OUS declaring they will strike Sept.
24 unless a tentative agreement is
reached.
Sept. 14 OUS withdraws its “unfair
labor practice" complaint.
Sept. 18 The classified workers’
unions file an unfair labor practice
complaint, charging OUS with
bargaining in bad faith by including
a clause in its' modified final offer
that would have empowered OUS to
open negotiations on wages and
health benefits if a budget shortfall
occurred.
Sept. 19 OUS retracts the clause.
Sept. 20 A flurry of bargaining talks
begin via telephone between OUS
representatives, union
representatives and a mediator.
.Sept. 21 The two sides reach a
^tentative contract agreement.
B Source; SEIU Local 503
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they were optimistic a resolution
could be reached Friday, but both
began readying their ranks for a
strike.
Classified workers of the Univer
sity held a bake sale at the south end
of the University Bookstore on
Wednesday to raise money for a
strike fund, and OUS was briefing
managers and supervisors Wednes
day about how to cover for classified
workers who didn’t report to work.
“I have asked departments at the
colleges to prepare plans which
identify those activities that ab
solutely have to go on, and how they
will be covered by existing person
nel,” University Human Resources
Director Linda King said early Fri
day.
King said child-care facilities at
the University would have closed
during the strike, leaving about 170
families scrambling to find daycare
services. The University Health
Center also was preparing to restrict
its services to students who had
emergencies or had appointments
scheduled prior to Sept. 24.
The tentative agreement, finalized
at 1 p.m. Friday in Salem, calls fora 2
percent cost-of-living wage increase
on Jan. 1, 2002, and a 3 percent in
crease on Feb. 1, 2003. The plan in
cludes annual step increases and ful
ly paid health coverage for full-time
employees in 2002 and 2003.
The “unfair labor practice” com
plaint filed by the unions Tuesday
charging that the OUS was not bargain
ing in good faith will be withdrawn,
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