OHSU: Rejecting Opportunities to Help Employees Advance in Their Careers

In the fall of 2021, AFSCME’s Training Trust approached OHSU with a request to partner on a grant, with a goal to train 230 OHSU workers for roles as medical assistants, sterile-processing technicians, PAS specialists and information-technology staff. OHSU's response? It boiled down to “No thanks. We would rather not partner on this, even though it means we will help fewer employees advance in their careers.”

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Local 328 Comment
BIPOC Office Hours Return

Every employee represented by AFSCME Local 328 receives the same benefits and protections under our contract, but some coworkers face systemic challenges at OHSU and within our union that we don’t all face. In order to improve our union’s accessibility to our Black, Indigenous and other members of color, we are offering BIPOC office hours.

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TJ AcenaComment