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…

We are happy to announce that our bargaining team has reached a settlement with Addus in our current negotiations. The settlement includes immediate pay increases ranging from 4.5-8.7% retroactive to July 1, 2023 and an additional across the board 5%…

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!…

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…

Before reading this post, we encourage you to read our virtual land acknowledgement.  The following statement is from SEIU 503 Executive Director Melissa Unger and President Mike Powers on Native American Heritage Month 2021: November is Native American Heritage Month,…

Yes, you read that correctly. Yesterday, our member-elected SEIU 503 Addus bargaining team settled a historic contract that will increase the starting pay from $13.80 to $17.00 by next September, a 23% increase over the next 11 months. Despite the…