We keep Oregon's public universities running, but management's latest economic offer disrespects our work and our livelihoods. Five months into bargaining and after our contract expired, management is still asking us to accept less.
The offer includes 0% COLAs over four years. Management moved off a step freeze only to propose a structure where it would take 19 years to move from step one to step ten. It also continues proposals to roll back layoff and contracting-out protections our union fought to secure.
Stand with our coworkers
Email our OSU president today. We will not accept an offer that balances budgets on our backs. We demand a contract that respects our work, protects our rights, and pays enough to live on.
What management is still putting on the table
- 0% COLAs over four years, even as costs keep rising.
- A 19-year step path that would permanently weaken a step system universities have honored for nearly half a century.
- Layoff-rights rollbacks that would make workers less secure when management makes budget decisions.
- Contracting-out rollbacks that would weaken protections for bargaining-unit work.
Why members are saying no
Many administrators make annual salaries well over $200,000. Meanwhile, many of our members, the coworkers who keep campuses clean, safe, running, and serving students, earn less than $40,000 a year.
In our bargaining survey, more than half of members said they worry about having enough money to make it to the next month. We are not ding dongs: we can see an offer that asks us to accept less while management protects its own priorities.
What members can do today
- Email our OSU president.
- Ask one coworker to email theirs.
- Read and share the latest bargaining update so coworkers know what management is proposing.