City of Portland Professional Workers Union
A union dedicated to the professional workers at the City of Portland
CPPW Union is seeking two contract workers to help build our organization over the next year – communications with a focus on storytelling and organizing with a strong preference for people with labor union experience.
Deadline to apply for consultant role: August 31, 2025 Extended, first review on Sept 12, 2025, then rolling basis until filled. Both positions have been filled.
Read full Request for Proposals and email info@cppwunion.org with any questions.
It has been an intense two weeks. From political whiplash to near-daily “updates” from city leaders about our work and budget—all while we are in active bargaining for a fair contract—it has felt difficult and stressful. This is not okay, and you are not alone.
Our union has been digging into these “updates” because city leaders have been awfully opaque, with few details amid the business jargon and empty expressions of empathy.
We want to share what we know and don’t know yet. And provide ways to channel our fear, anger, or distrust into positive action in support of city workers and the city we serve.
Did Halloween come early this month?
Were you spooked by Michael Jordan’s message yesterday connecting our current bargaining and the city’s budget next year? Did you hear the ghostly whispered threat of layoffs? In this year of relentless, ongoing change and transition, don’t let these tricks scare you.
The three unions, CPPW and our partners at AFSCME and DCTU, bargaining now for fair contracts are absolutely not to blame for the city’s finances.
On October 14, 2024, CPPW Bargaining Team met with the City and exchanged the following proposals:
Contract Bargaining is moving forward with CPPW doing the majority of the heavy lifting to propose articles and craft language. The City has taken a lackadaisical attitude, offering few counters and seeming to hope they can just drag their feet through the rest of 2024. That won’t work for us!