Category: CPPW

Member Question: Management Leave

The current system of Management Leave is mysterious, confusing, and inequitable. We can do better!

Management Leave is a City policy (HRAR 8.03) that grants up to 80 hours of additional paid leave per calendar year to non-represented employees “who are not eligible for overtime compensation” with the intent to “recognize exceptional additional individual efforts, performance, and achievements, including but not limited to beyond the standard workweek.”

Management Leave can be granted to non-represented employees at the discretion of their supervisor and bureau director. In practice, a small number of employees get the full 80 hours of additional leave each year. Some of us get less than 80 hours a year. Some of us are denied Management Leave altogether. And others have never known that getting Management Leave is an option. 

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Take the CPPW Issue Survey and Share Your Priorities

City of Portland Professional Workers Union (CPPW) will fight for the issues that matter most to the bargaining unit. Take the CPPW Issue Survey to share your priorities.

The future of our work is in our hands. By taking this survey, you’ll help decide what things to push for. What do you care about? What affects you, your family, and your work? Based on survey results, we’ll develop proposals that reflect our membership’s priorities and needs.

This survey should take 5-10 minutes.

The union commits to protecting your information. We will not share anyone’s information outside of the union.

Even if you plan on voting no, take the survey anyways because we’d still like to know your priorities and what workplace issues matter to you.

Questions? Email [email protected].

Strike Pledge

 CPPW Strike Pledge Petition 

The City of Portland Professional Workers union (CPPW) has been bargaining in good faith for a strong contract since March 2023. We are fighting for: 

  • Clear and consistent compensation – Guaranteed wage increases, bringing all starting wages to a living wage, paid on-call and stand-by time, and hour-for-hour working out-of-class compensation. 
  • Workplace protections – Enforceable layoff protections and anti-layoff provisions that prevent us from being first in line to plug budget holes.  
  • Flexibility – Clear policies that ensure we aren’t subject to arbitrary management decisions about how and when we work. 
  • A real voice in decision-making – Ensuring our input is not just heard, but acted on. 

Throughout bargaining and mediation, we have recognized the City’s financial situation and adjusted our proposals accordingly—seeking a reasonable agreement in line with other City unions. Yet the City has stalled and clung to unreasonable positions, maintaining status quo or worse on the issues that matter most to us. 

To secure our contract, we must demonstrate our unity. It is time to demand that the City settle this contract now! 

This pledge is a show of power that moves us closer to settling a strong contract at the table. It is not a vote to authorize a strike, but a commitment to stand together should we be forced to take action. 

All members of our bargaining unit may sign, whether or not you have signed your union card yet.  

 

Join our Discord! (No, not an argument.)

Email sucks, we all hate it. As a way of fostering better communication and collaboration, CPPW has established a Discord server for the members to use to engage in a more relaxed and chat-like way. Discord is a collaboration platform that was developed to support the gaming community. It has a more whimsical feel tha, say, Microsoft Teams, but it has all the same features, text, voice and video chat, file sharing, public and private channels.

If you feel comfortable diving right in, just go straight to The Water Cooler Channel and sign up. More info on getting started and how to Discord is available on the CPPW Discord Page.