After more than a week on Strike, the University of Oregon Student Workers (UOSW) Union - an affiliate of the United Auto Workers (UAW)- have announced their Bargaining Team has reached a tentative contract agreement with administrators. If ratified, this agreement would be the first contract covering a wall-to-wall Undergraduate Student Worker Unit at a Public University. Members perform essential roles in dining halls, dormitories, academic departments, recruitment, cultural spaces, student life and research labs. Student Workers initially walked off the job on April 28th after 11 months of negotiations with the university, to fight for better wages and improved protections against harassment in the workplace. “This is a historic and amazing contract whatever way you slice it,” said Ryan Campbell, a Member of UOSW’s Bargaining Team. “(UO administration) can’t push some of this stuff out of the way now. Going through this experience, now we can help other people, so it’s a very, very cool thing.”

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