Published: January 7, 2019

More than 33,000 SEIU 503 Home Care and Personal Support Workers are negotiating a new contract in 2019.

2019 Was a Landmark Year for Homecare, Personal Support Workers in Oregon

This is the fourth in a series of articles looking back on 2019, and shining a spotlight on the most significant events in our Union. Check out article #1, #2, #3.  Over the past twenty years, Homecare and personal support workers have come together and fought to improve the care infrastructure for everybody. We transformed […]

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New Report Reveals How the 'Union Difference' Has Dramatically Improved the State Homecare System

In the fifteen years that Oregon’s homecare and personal support workers have been organizing with our union, they have changed the entire shape of the long-term care system in the state. What used to be a government stipend program has been transformed into a professional workforce that creates tens of thousands of jobs and keeps […]

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State and Homecare Workers Come Together in Historic Rally to Fund Public Services

State and Homecare Workers Come Together in Historic Rally to Fund Public Services

  Fifteen hundred state, personal support, homecare, and public services workers came together on Monday, May 20th at a historic rally to push for fair contracts and investments in public services.  Members of SEIU Local 503 from across Oregon marched through Salem and up to the steps of the Capitol Building, demanding that legislators hear […]

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SEIU Launches the United for a Better Oregon Bargaining Campaign

  Oregon’s public employees, homecare workers, nursing home workers, childcare providers, adult foster home providers, and university employees came together this weekend to launch a historic, unified contract campaign that will improve lives of Oregonians in every part of the state. The United for a Better Oregon campaign will focus on the following key priorities […]

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