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CPPW email – How to Prepare to Strike
Our contract fight and the possible strike is about issues: Wages that keep pace with inflation. Parity with other city workers. Fair compensation for the skills, experiences, and critical services you provide to Portlanders. Respect. A stable future.
You and your coworkers have come together to say, We will not continue to fall behind and watch the City balance its budget on the backs of its workers while paying out millions on things like executive severances, contracts to nowhere, and new layers of management.
While your Bargaining Team continues to try and settle this contract at the table, if the City leadership fails to offer real solutions to the issues above, you and your coworkers will go on strike together on Monday, November 9.
Get prepared to strike! Hit the email link for full details.
- Step 1: Get Your Questions Answered & Make Your Plan
- Step 2: Be Strike Ready at Work
- Step 3: Get Engaged – Action is the Antidote to Fear
- Upcoming events
Watch: CPPW City Workers are Essential Workers
CPPW email – CPPW in the news
Get caught up! Hit the email link for a recap of news over the last couple weeks on your contract and possible strike. Want more? Follow the CPPW Instagram for member videos, stories of our work, and in the moment updates.
Highlights include:
- Press release: CPPW Set to Strike on Nov. 9
- City Council session: CPPW President announces intent to strike
- News coverage by Northwest Labor Press, OPB, XRay FM, and KGW
- CPPW on podcasts: KBOO Labor Radio, CityCast Portland, and Progress Portland
Listen: Progress Portland talks with CPPW President Kari Koch
In Progress Portland’s episode 63, they talk to Kari Koch, president of the City of Portland Professional Workers Union, activist and all around great person.
Kari discusses the challenges of having a muddy and unclear job title system, the lack of representation amongst over 800 workers at the city until the CPPW was created, how the city whilst moving away from an inefficient commissioner system has replaced many of the inefficiencies with new ones through management layers, and why city workers deserve a living wages, increases, and clarity in their roles.