Members of UA, GTFF, UOSW, SEIU, ASUO, and more led a teach-in and rally on what they are Oregon Compact on Higher Education. This comes amid the Trump administration putting forward its own compact for universities, that if administrators agree to shape their curriculum to fit the White House's conservative ideology they would be able to lock in federal funding. However organizers of the Oregon Compact view their project to go beyond being reactive, and instead create a true pro-worker and pro-student university. "With this compact, we unite for the common good, which means we want anyone who desires higher education of any kind, whether technical, vocational, professional, a robust liberal arts or science training, or a PhD in philosophy or physics, to be able to pursue that goal, free of debt, and with the full force and support of the richest damn country on the planet behind them," pronounced UO Philosophy Professor Bonnie Mann to the crowd.

Hundreds of Springfield teachers rallied Downtown on a wet and dark Wednesday evening. The educators, apart of the Springfield Education Association, held the rally after eight months of bargaining and the day before the union is set to go into mediation with the school district. While 12 articles have been tentatively agreed to, 13 articles remain on the the table. One of the more egregious proposals by the Springfield Public Schools, according to teachers, is increasing their workday to 8.5 hours from 8. Brandon Ferguson, a Springfield High School teacher and member of the union's bargaining team, says that they have been creative with their bargaining solutions and are willing to go late night in their sessions.

DSM, concerned by the EPD’s cosplay as members of the press, spoke to journalism experts who all agreed that this is bad.

On July 23, this year’s Lane County Fair at the Lane Events Center in Eugene began. Since then, at least three separate posts on social media from astonished fairgoers have been published claiming …

UO Student Workers reached one week of striking as of Monday, and they are still fighting for fair pay, and independent arbitration, among other issues. To increase the pressure on the administration the union held several actions including a sit in at Johnson Hall in the afternoon. Around 50 student workers independently decided to stay in the administration building after it closed to gurantee a fair contract while mediation was still ongoing. Ultimately the university invited the Eugene Police to clear them out. At 1 PM today student workers started their study-in at Johnson Hall to demand what they call enforceable anti-harrasment protections, through access to a third party arbitrator.

At 5 AM on Monday, April 28, student workers at the University of Oregon went on strike. This was after 11 months of bargaining with the university. While the union has made some wins through tentativ...

Look back at how downtown Springfield grew into a destination location, and specifically, the people who helped make it happen.

Less than a week after the layoff of over twenty workers and the end of 35 years of CAHOOTS service in Eugene, panelists at a UO town hall said the crisis response team was exploring a separation from White Bird Clinic. Thursday April 10, a town hall hosted by the UO Department of Sociology pivoted from a research and community impact discussion to a forum of community frustration and ire over the program's collapse. CAHOOTS workers made a call to action for the people of Eugene to show up for each other while the team is unable to respond in the community.

Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and community members rallied in front of Johnson Hall on Friday in the wake of four students having their visas revoked. The rally, organized by UO YDSA, comes a...

Bills to give striking workers the right to unemployment benefits are moving forward in Oregon and Washington.

The Oregon House Committee On Higher Education and Workforce Development will vote on whether or not to move forward a bill that will subject public university foundations to public records laws. House Bill 3213 is now scheduled for a work session on April 8 after the committee heard public testimony in late February. It is likely to be recommended for a vote before the end of this legislative session.

UO Student Workers (UOSW) announced that their members authorized their bargaining team to call a strike. UOSW held week strike authorization vote that opened March 3 and ended last Friday. The union says that 2,476 of 4k student workers participated in the vote, and that 94% approved a strike authorization. The news was announced in a joint press release with United Academics (UA), whose strike authorization vote also ended on Friday.

Hours before United Academics was set to close its strike authorization vote, the faculty union held a march, rally, and practice picket. Hundreds of members and supporters turned out to the action the union described as the last push to avert a strike. After over a year of bargaining, UA declared impasse on February 18. Later that night, the union announced that with 89% turnout, 92% voted to approve a strike.

With not seeing adequate progress in bargaining, UO Student Workers made a call for a study-in at Johnson Hall to put pressure on the administration. The union says that they are making workers choose between safe working conditions and fair pay. At the end of the night, not seeing enough concessions, the union announced that it will be holding a strike authorization vote next week.

Neighbors Feeding Neighbors (NFN), a faith-based, no-barrier feeding program, has been serving meals at Washington Jefferson Park for the last 11 years. The organization says extreme raises in permit costs by the City of Eugene and harassment of their volunteers by the Eugene Police Department, has made serving the community harder. NFN with an attorney is saying that the actions the city has taken are unconstitutional and are exploring multiple options to keep the service operational in the neighborhood.