Internal Labor Representative (Eugene​/Springfield

Job Title:

Internal Labor Representative Department:
Labor

Supervisor’s

Title:

Director of Labor and Organizing Exempt Status:
Exempt Assignment

Location:
Eugene / Springfield

Hours and travel: ONA works with healthcare workers who work across the state in 24/7 facilities. By the nature of this work, there are times where travel, working nights, and overnight stays are required.

This position requires the employee to facilitate and maintain the development of strong and engaged bargaining units. The employee is part of the ONA labor department, which empowers healthcare workers to advocate for themselves, their patients, their families, and their communities.

• Develop broad, representative, inclusive, and diverse pool of worksite leaders following ONA’s criteria.
• Train leaders to move worksite/issue campaigns, serve as advocates on worksite committees, and act as stewards.
• Support leaders on worksite committees. Participate on worksite committees when necessary.
• Develop and implement strategic plans for each bargaining unit using ONA template. Keep strategic plans up-to-date.
• Conduct annual assessments of bargaining units using ONA template.
• Promote membership in the union, including developing internal organizing plans to accrete unrepresented employees in union, convert fair-share to membership, and ensure presence at new employee orientations.
• Create and maintain lists assessing membership or to track campaigns.
• Ensure bargaining unit elections are held in a timely fashion and in accordance to bargaining unit’s bylaws.
• Identify bargaining unit leaders to fill statewide leadership positions on the ONA Board, Cabinets, and House of Delegates. Mentor those leaders when appropriate.

• Visit workers in their homes, worksites, or other locations.
• Compose newsletters and other materials in a clear and persuasive fashion.
• Timely inform Assistant Director of Labor and other supervisors and stakeholders of activities, developments, and progress of work or emergence of issues.
• Promptly return phone calls or answer e-mails/texts, especially to members.
• Work collaboratively with coworkers, including those in other departments, members, and coalition partners.
• Develop and present trainings to members, staff, and others.
• Use discretion when communicating when appropriate.

• Ensure contract is reopened in a timely fashion.
• Act as the lead negotiator, including draft contract proposals, identify and train negotiating team, conduct surveys, get necessary information from employer or other sources, interpret contract language, present proposals, negotiate, research best practices, write and distribute updates, develop and oversee contract action teams, issue organize, and develop and implement a contract campaign, including moving members to concerted action.
• Ratify the contract following the bargaining unit’s bylaws and ONA policies.
• Produce a final agreement that is ready for print.
• Develop thorough knowledge of bargaining unit contracts, bargaining history, and the bylaws of assigned bargaining units and constituent associations.

• Identify, train, and support stewards to handle investigatory meetings and grievances. Monitor stewards work to ensure duty of fair representation is met.
• Represent nurses in investigatory meetings and grievances when no steward available or when otherwise appropriate/necessary.
• Draft grievances and investigate the merits of a grievance.
• Responsible for administering, monitoring and calendaring grievance processing for all assigned units
• Provide recommendation on merits of grievances to stewards, leaders, Labor Cabinet, Director of Labor, Strategic Campaign Director, Director of Organizing and Legal Counsel.

• Meet goals and deadlines.
• Timely complete administrative tasks such as Expense or Beck Reports
• Accept and apply feedback and constructive criticism from Director of Labor or other supervisor.
• Learn about ONA labor department initiatives and priorities and ONA history, structure, and strategic plan.
• Maintain confidentiality of ONA strategic initiatives and targets.
• Perform related work as required.

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