Friday, January 28, 2005

Striking social workers at Parry Center reach tentative agreement

Workers at southeast Portland's Parry Center for mentally ill children reached a tentative contract agreement Wednesday to end a 59-day strike, union officials said.

The deal struck with Trillium Family Services, which operates the center.

While officials with the Service Employees Union International Local 503 did not reveal terms of the tentative agreement, executive director Leslie Frane called it "a huge victory" for the social workers at the facility.

The union was seeking a wage increase for Parry Center employees.

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