Higher Ed Contract Ratified! The votes have been counted. And we are excited to announce that Higher Ed members of SEIU 503 have overwhelmingly voted to ratify the tentative agreement (TA) reached by the Bargaining Team and management at Oregon’s…

We’re excited to announce that State members have voted to ratify the 2023-2025 State Worker Tentative Agreement. This contract is historic, with a minimum 13.05% raise over two years, and $1,500 one-time cost of living adjustment (COLA). Additionally, this contract…

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…

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We are over 22,000 State workers, joined together in union to make Oregon a better place to live and work. We are DHS workers who provide direct services to over one million Oregonians each year, ODOT workers who put in…

This post covers the new contract agreement for State employees. We’re thrilled to share that as of July 16th, the contract was settled with big victories for State workers! Scroll down for highlights and additional details, and join the conversation…

There is currently a lot of uncertainty in the University budget. Because of this uncertainty, the Universities have proposed and the Higher Ed bargaining team has agreed to a short-term extension of our contract through January 31, 2022. This would…

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…

We are now celebrating a victory that was months, and years, in the making. Despite management’s initial, disrespectful offers, our bargaining team was able to win a great contract with real cost of living adjustments, no increases in healthcare rates,…

The recent tentative agreement between the classified staff at Oregon’s seven state universities and management is a massive milestone in improving our higher education for both students and employees. After years of miniscule cost of living adjustments we finally were…