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AFSCME reaches tentative
deal for 4,000 state workers
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees Ore-
gon Council 75 has reached a tentative
agreement on behalf of some 4,000 em-
ployees at the State of Oregon.
The two-year agreement includes a
3 percent cost-of-living adjustment
retroactive to July 1 and a 3.2 percent
COLA on Nov. 1, 2008.
State employees will continue to re-
ceive fully-paid health insurance for the
life of the contract.
Other improvements include:
• Selective salary adjustments for 16
job classifications, affecting some 200
workers.
• Shift differential of at least 75 cents
per hour for shifts occurring between 6
p.m. and 6 a.m.
• Contracting out language that sets
up a situation where those who are po-
tentially at risk of being contracted out
will have the opportunity to “bid in” on
the work, plus prior notification of any
potential contracting out decisions.
• Improved union-leave language
that will make it easier for union offi-
cers to get time off for union business.
“This is a good settlement,” said
Oregon AFSCME Executive Director
Ken Allen, the union’s chief negotiator.
“Fully-paid health insurance is a huge
deal for us. We are the last state in the
U.S. that pays 100 percent of the health
care costs for its state employees, so it is
no small feat to keep that for another
contract.”
Oregon Department of Corrections
employees represented by AFSCME
are not covered under this agreement.
Separate negotiations are continuing for
both Security and Security Plus units.
Earlier this year the State of Oregon
reached a similar agreement with Ser-
vice Employees Local 503. That union
represents about 18,000 state employ-
ees.
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to leave U.S. on his own
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A federal immigration case against
a local union organizer came to a close
last month. Mexican national José Co-
bián, known to friends by his assumed
name José Luis Mendoza, was al-
lowed to leave the United States on his
own rather than be forcibly deported.
Cobián, a union organizer for the
Pacific Northwest Regional Council
of Carpenters, pled guilty to passport
fraud last September and spent two
weeks in jail. Then for almost a year,
he remained in the United States while
his deportation case moved through a
series of court appearances. He was
unable to legally work, but he and his
family were maintained by donations
from union co-workers. Cobián was
able to sell his house in Molalla.
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On Aug. 24, a federal judge gave
him a deadline of Aug. 31 to leave the
country. His wife and two U.S.-born
children had left earlier to stay with
her parents in Tampico.
Cobían told the Labor Press he
planned to oversee shipment of the
family’s belongings, and then return
to Mexico to look for work.
“Unless the law changes,” Cobián
said, “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to
come back.”
“I hate to see him go,” said Car-
penters organizer Cliff Puckett, a for-
mer co-worker who attended the final
court appearance. “For all intents and
purposes he was just an honest human
being trying to provide for his family.”
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