PFSP in the News

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• PPS Offers Unions Furloughs or Layoffs to Patch $10 Million Midyear Budget Gap (February 27, 2026, Willamette Week)
• Portland Public Schools considers furlough days to make up multimillion dollar budget gap (February 27, 2026, OPB)
• Families, former Portland Public Schools employees fight cuts to language services (December 19, 2025, OPB)
• PPS Tries to Patch Shortage of Paraeducator Substitutes (October 13, 2025, Willamette Week)
• Local unions resolve to defend immigrants (January 2, 2025, Northwest Labor Press)
• As Teachers’ Strike Enters Third Week, There’s Turmoil at Another School Union (November 15, 2023, Willamette Week)
• PFSP Union Returns to Negotiations with PPS (October 27, 2023, The Southeast Examiner)
• Portland schools’ classified union rejects contract (October 10, 2023, Northwest Labor Press)
• Belinda Reagan closes the book on decades of involvement (June 30, 2021, Northwest Labor Press)
• Furloughed workers tighten belts waiting for WorkShare benefits (July 14, 2020, Northwest Labor Press)
• In the era of COVID-19, the union hall is going virtual (July 1, 2020, Northwest Labor Press)
• New contract for support staff at Portland Public Schools (May 15, 2018, Northwest Labor Press)
• Labor weighs in on May school board and bond elections (April 4, 2017, Northwest Labor Press)
• AFT 111 converts coworkers to members (May 22, 2015, Northwest Labor Press)
• Getting books into the hands of kids (December 17, 2014, Northwest Labor Press)
• It’s a ‘Race to the Top’ for Portland Public Schools’ CEO pay, but pink slips for its lowest-paid (August 11, 2014, Northwest Labor Press)
• Layoffs at Portland Public Schools? (June 17, 2014, Northwest Labor Press)
• First crop of Labor Candidate School grads run for public office (May 1, 2013, Northwest Labor Press)
• New contract: Two-year pay freeze for 1,200 Portland Public Schools support staff (January 10, 2012, Northwest Labor Press)
• AFT Local 111 changes name, elects president (August 22, 2011, Northwest Labor Press)