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GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! With bombs and the devil, and the kids keep comin , no way to breathe easy, no time to be young. LET S GO TO PRESS.
• The Oregon Health Authority is investigating whether a woman who died from blood clots after taking the Johnson & Johnson vaccine perished because of the dose. At this point it s still unknown whether there is any connection, and even then,
blood clots are EXTREMELY rare in those who receive the J&J shot less than one in a million in the US and the FDA is considering putting it back on the market (with a warning) saying the chance of getting blood clots after taking the vaccine is like finding needles in a haystack.
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OIT’s faculty union has declared its intent to strike. The university says the union has not acted in good faith.
The Oregon Institute of Technology filed
a petition Wednesday with the Oregon Employment Relations Board, asking the agency to declare a tentative faculty strike unlawful.
Earlier this month OIT’s faculty union, a chapter of the American Association of University Professors,
declared its intention to strike. That declaration came as the union and university had been bargaining for 16 months.
If the union strikes it said it will if an agreement is not reached by this coming Monday it would be the first public university faculty union in Oregon ever to do so.
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Bradley W. Parks
Originally published on April 6, 2021 4:50 pm
Aides in the Oregon State Capitol have cleared a major hurdle in their quest to become the first employees of their kind in the U.S. to form a union.
In an order issued Tuesday, the Oregon Employment Relations Board roundly rejected a list of objections to a 180-member staff union raised by the state Legislature. Instead, the ERB sided with employees who’ve contended that they are eligible under state collective bargaining laws to organize.
Legislative aides are now planning to hold an official election by mail in coming days that will decide whether they are the first partisan Capitol staff in the country to form their own union. It was not immediately clear whether the Legislature, which is being represented by the Oregon Department of Justice in objecting to the union push, would ask the ERB to reconsider.
By Don McIntosh
Seven Portland Police Bureau internal affairs investigators joined AFSCME Local 189 on Jan. 25 a vanguard that could swell to several hundred city employees in the months ahead.
An effort to win a union among non-represented City of Portland employees erupted last year when workers began to organize themselves, but their legal path to official union recognition was paved by an earlier battle. City attorneys and HR managers, trying to oppose an effort by three analysts in the Portland Housing Bureau to unionize, ended up opening the door to unionizing non-represented workers across the city.
At the City of Portland, most employees are already union-represented, members of one of 11 separate unions. But at least 942 city employees are not represented. Not all of those have the right to unionize under state law. Some are considered managers because they have the power to hire, fire, and discipline other workers. Others like administrative assistants for top bureau man