AFSCME Local 88 members ratify four-
year contract at Multnomah County
Members of the American Federa-
tion of State, County and Municipal
Employees Local 88 have ratified a
new four-year contract with Mult-
nomah County.
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ILWU Local 40
2401 N. W. Twenty Third Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97210
The contract — retroactive to July 1
and expiring June 30, 2011 — was rat-
ified by 88.5 percent of the union’s
membership. Local 88 represents about
3,000 county workers.
Local 88 members will receive a
cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of
2.7 percent for the current year, retroac-
tive to July 1. Bargaining unit members
will receive an annual COLA of be-
tween 2 and 5 percent on July 1 each of
the next three years; the exact amounts
will be determined by the Portland-area
Consumer Price Index.
Health care benefits and premiums
will remain the same through Jan. 1,
2009. In the interim, a new labor-man-
agement Employee Benefits Team will
form and review health care coverage.
The Employee Benefits Team will ex-
amine current plan designs and cost-
sharing to take place in 2009. If the
team cannot come to an agreement, a
default plan has been agreed to. An-
other team will make recommendations
by Sept. 1, 2008 for 30-hour per week
employees at the Multnomah County
Library.
The agreement also allows Local
88’s president to access the county’s e-
mail system to send communications to
union-represented employees, it allows
the use of up to 24 hours of vacation
time per year for emergency situations
and preventative medical and dental ap-
pointments and declares that letters of
reprimand older than two years will not
be counted in disciplinary actions.
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