Did you know, when you complete your new worker or continuing education training, you get a FREE pair of shoes in addition to your paid stipend! Stay safe on the job with a new pair of slip-resistant shoes from Carewell…

Oregon’s 2024 legislative session was a “short session” where legislators only consider a few key policy bills while “long sessions” held in odd-numbered years allow more time to hear big pieces of legislation. That didn’t stop us from trying to…

February 27,2024 Thanks to the incredible power workers have been building on our campuses—signing strike pledges, practice picketing, rallying, delivering our petitions to administration, and more—we have moved management to come to a tentative agreement that includes historic cost-of-living adjustments…

Our Union family has lost a selfless and courageous champion of labor and equality with the passing of James Jacobson. In a world that today seems so violent, revengeful, hurtful…James provided that consistent strength of a positive approach to his…

There was no bargaining for homecare this week; bargaining will return on Tuesday, August 15th..  Our most recent bargaining session was held on Tuesday, August 1. You can find the bargaining update for that session and stay up to date…

By Central Table Bargaining Co-Chairs Ibrahim Coulibaly and Austin Folnagy  We’d like to share with our fellow members our experience as bargaining team members after reaching a Tentative Agreement (TA) for the next state worker contract. We must begin by…

The leadup to the 2022 General Election was filled with uncertainty, but resulted in key victories for SEIU 503 members up and down the ballot. These wins put us in a position to bargain for good contracts next year and…

The Carewell SEIU 503 PTO benefit helps you take time off from work when you need to. If you worked more than 80 hours in either March, April, or May of 2022, you’ve earned 20 hours of Paid Time Off!…

“When they started dying, that was so hard.” Felipa Rojas De Torres is a Certified Nursing Assistant at a nursing home in Salem. When the pandemic hit, her facility was thrown into a crisis that continues to this day.  …

Our team spent four very long days last week at Portland State University bargaining with management, working to win the best contract possible that recognizes how essential we all are to keeping the universities working. You’ll see below that management’s…