AMR Portland Oregon EMS Workforce Labor History

---Summary---

With American Medical Response purchasing Buck Ambulance, Care Ambulance, AA Ambulance, Alpine Ambulance, Willamette Falls Ambulance, and other smaller ambulance companies, EMS workers in Portland Oregon form a bargaining unit that as of 2008 numbers about 600 EMTs, Paramedics, and Dispatchers.

---Union Representation History---

This bargaining unit has a history of frequent changes in union representation.

1993-1995 - Represented by Amalgamated Transit Union 757 (ATU)

Decertified by the bargaining unit for

1995-1997 - Represented by Northwest Paramedic Alliance (NWPA)

Decertified by the bargaining unit for[

1997-2005 - Represented by Amalgamated Transit Union 757 (ATU)

Decertified by the bargaining unit for

2005-2007 - Represented by National Emergency Medical Services Association (NEMSA)

Bargaining unit disclaimed by NEMSA after bitter union infighting

2007 - Present - Represented by International Brotherhood of Teamsters

---Details On Unions Representing Portland Oregon EMS Workers---

Amalgamated Transit Union 757 - an international union with local 757 in Portland Oregon this union negotiated and ratified a contract with AMR

Northwest Paramedic Alliance - a re-creation of previous EMS associations in Portland, this was an attempt to self unionize. NWPA never got a contract agreed to before being decertified.

Amalgamated Transit Union 757 - took back EMS workers who previously had decertified them, got two back to back contracts with AMR before being decertified again

National EMS Association - got two tentative agreements with AMR however one was voted down, the other votes were never counted due to disclaim of interest by NEMSA in Portland EMS workers.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters - currently representing this BU with 2008 ratified agreement.

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