“When they started dying, that was so hard.” Felipa Rojas De Torres is a Certified Nursing Assistant at a nursing home in Salem. When the pandemic hit, her facility was thrown into a crisis that continues to this day.  …

Our bargaining team has fought hard and now we have won a historic tentative agreement that will give state workers 10-15% raises, stop increases in healthcare costs, add additional steps for longtime staff, help us deal with workplace abuse, and…

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…

What is Pandemic Recognition Pay?  During the 2021 bargaining process, our team negotiated contract language that gives qualifying state workers additional compensation in recognition of the increased hazardous working conditions that some experienced during the pandemic. This was referred to…

On our inaugural episode of Stronger Together, the official podcast of SEIU Local 503, we hear from our Executive Director Melissa Unger about our vision is for the next five years as a union. Next, we hear from Adam Napier,…