AFT Oregon Field Representative

Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Provides leadership to bargaining teams engaged in labor contract negotiations. Helps recruit, coach and train the negotiation team with best practices. Supports the creation of bargaining plans and surveys. Recommends proposal development. Provides assistance with research, training, and data collection. 
• Trains, advises and supports locals in contract enforcement, grievances, arbitrations, and administrative hearings. Conducts interviews, prepares arbitration documents, consults with legal advisors with AFT-Oregon leadership as needed. 
• Maintains local files on bargaining grievances and arbitration
• Advises on contract development and compliance with current labor relations laws, state and local requirements, organizational procedures and processes.  
• Assesses research needs, formulate research questions and goals. Interprets and applies relevant rules and laws. 
• Develops and integrates local leaders and members into AFT-Oregon's political and legislative programs, supports internal local capacity for forming political and legislative officers or committees, and coordinates political and legislative engagement with AFT-Oregon’s political team.
• Trains new leaders with organizing and political activism activities to champion economic opportunity within the local and throughout the statewide federation.
• Educates members on political issues and encourages political participation.
• Collaborates with AFT-Oregon organizing staff, Executive Council and local leaders, to plan, lead, and participate in organizing drives and actions
• Mentors and trains local officers and activists and collects and tracks membership data to build local power and membership involvement. 
• Assists locals in increasing local membership density. Works with AFT-Oregon, AFT-National and local leaders to ensure accuracy of membership lists.  Tracks relevant factors to build local power and membership involvement. 
• Organizes files and information for reporting and documentation. Reports data and presents as requested.
• Support media campaigns and local communications efforts regarding bargaining and organizing.
• Represents AFT-Oregon to community groups including labor events, community engagement projects, rallies, protests.
• Supports and collaborates with AFT-Oregon executive council to create federation-wide organizing campaigns.
• Coordinates work of other staff as assigned to projects and activities.
• Supports the development and success of AFT-Oregon training events, conventions, events, retreats, and encourages local union participation in AFT-Oregon groups and committees. 

Other related duties as assigned.

The position includes a competitive salary (DOE) and benefits package in accord with the United Employees Guild/AFT-Oregon Collective Bargaining Agreement, including full employer paid health insurance for employee and family and 12% retirement contribution after six months of hire.