Jessica Waters Photo Editor
SEIU members and supporters gather on the lawn in front of Oregon Hall to protest
contract negotiations with OUS.
OUS, SEIU head off
strike with updated
labor agreement
i ne proposed aeai includes
full health care benefits for
half- and full-time workers
By Jared Paben
News Reporter
The Oregon University System and
the Service Employees International
Union local 503 reached an agree
ment Aug. 21, averting a strike that
would have begun less than two
weeks before fall term.
"The individual commitment and
dedication of the bargainers, and the
campuses' involvement since the be
ginning of the year, is what enabled
us to reach an agreement and be
able to start the new academic year
with a focus on our students," OUS
Chancellor Richard Jarvis said in a
press release.
The agreement is the culmination
of more than nine months of
bargaining between the statewide
classified-workers' union and OUS.
The union must still ratify the
agreement by a vote of its members,
OUS Senior Vice Chancellor for
Finance and Administration Tom
Anderes said.
ii union memDers agree 10 me ne
gotiated terms, the strike — threat
ened by the University's 1,250 classi
fied workers after OUS declared an
impasse to negotiations on Aug. 8 —
will be prevented.
The proposed two-year contract itself
satisfies many of the union's demands.
First, both full-time and part-time
employees who work at least 80 paid
hours in a month will continue to re
ceive fully paid health care, which is
the same as in the previous two-year
contract, OUS Spokeswoman Di
Saunders said.
OUS pulled its proposals for alter
ing employee work schedules and un
paid furloughs, representing a big vic
tory for the union, said Star
Uolmberg, the union's bargaining
table representative.
The union won a clear-cut victory
with respect to the right to "bump"
laid-off employees, maintaining the
current rules for bumping into geo
graphical areas. Under the contract
language, laid-off employees may take
the position of any employee, includ
ing those with lesser seniority, within
the geographic area of the campus,
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