On this episode of Stronger Together, the official podcast from your union, SEIU Local 503, we look at the costly Republican walkout and what it means for SEIU members. We speak with our political director, Andrea Cooper, about why the…

In the fall, as members voted to ratify the new State Worker Union Contract, Child Welfare workers pressed on with what has become a year-long campaign to improve staffing of their program and better protect Oregon’s kids. The State agreed…

  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…

The crisis in Oregon’s foster care system highlights the risk we take when we underfund the resources Oregon families depend on. Over the past two decades, Child Welfare Services has seen understaffed departments, high caseloads, a lack of state resources…

Yesterday, SEIU local 503 members from Portland Public Schools, Child Welfare, and other state agencies joined teachers from around the state in a historic day of action in support of fully funding education and state services.  Twenty-six public school districts…