Throughout Oregon, there are tens of thousands of critical jobs that keep our state moving. Everything from fixing our roads and fighting forest fires to helping families in need enroll in public services or supporting the IT infrastructure at our…

We had one bargaining session this week and both teams spent a lot of time working on the remaining non-economic contract articles to find a path to agreement with management. While we didn’t reach any tentative agreements this week, we…

As we continue to meet management every week, we continue to have exciting wins! This week’s wins include: Vacation: Employees can now cash out 40 hours of vacation once per year, as long as the employee maintains a vacation bank…

The pace of bargaining is starting to pick up. We’re closing in our final month of bargaining and now is our chance to win on everything from better wages to benefits to workplace flexibility. This week we reached an agreement…

  Earlier today, the Oregon Legislature passed a bill that will cut public employee retirement benefits by 1.5% to 3%. The changes will take place beginning on July 1, 2020, and will depend on when you started working for the…

We continued to make progress at the bargaining table last week and made a tentative agreement on a handful of non-economic issues. We sent a clear message about our priority issues. We have a break from the table this week,…

  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…

After years of working hard for revenue reform, Oregon just passed a bill raising $2 billion in new revenue from large corporations. The bill will improve education and other public services throughout Oregon, put our members in a better position…

Things are starting to move at the bargaining table! We’ve made some tentative agreements with management on several non-economic issues, and we expect to dig into economic issues — wages, benefits, and Paid Time Off— at our next session.  The…