It’s been a little over a week since Multnomah County enacted a stricter in-person work requirement, and its largest employee union is making its opposition known.
At Thursday’s county board meeting, representatives from AFSCME Local 88 plan to deliver their members’ “vote of no confidence” in Chair Jessica Vega Pederson and the county’s chief operating officer, Chris Neal.
Local 88 spokesperson David Kreisman said it’s a symbolic gesture to demonstrate that “county management has lost the trust of its workforce following top-down operational mandates, a lack of transparency, and decisions that prioritize private interests and administrative overhead over frontline workers and essential community services.”…