February 27,2024 Thanks to the incredible power workers have been building on our campuses—signing strike pledges, practice picketing, rallying, delivering our petitions to administration, and more—we have moved management to come to a tentative agreement that includes historic cost-of-living adjustments…

Avamere workers have been standing strong to tell management we won’t settle a contract with takeaways. When they pushed for takeaways we pushed back…and we won! Here are just a few highlights: Raises: $0.80 per hour retroactive to October 1,…

We did it! The big raise State workers won (scheduled for January 2025) all hinged on the legislature approving a budget that provides funding. Because of our union’s power and influence in the legislature, we’re excited to share that the…

Oregon’s 2024 legislative session was a “short session” where legislators only consider a few key policy bills while “long sessions” held in odd-numbered years allow more time to hear big pieces of legislation. That didn’t stop us from trying to…

SEIU Local 503 is proud to launch an exciting new resource: a database of streamable labor movies. This innovative tool is a celebration of our collective victories and a testament to the power of storytelling in shaping the narrative around…

SEIU Local 503 Disclaimer: Nominated candidates were invited to submit a campaign statement not to exceed 400 words. SEIU 503 uniformly formats statements for publication and otherwise prints statements verbatim as submitted by the candidate(s). The following are statements and…

We are happy to announce that our bargaining team has reached a settlement with Addus in our current negotiations. The settlement includes immediate pay increases ranging from 4.5-8.7% retroactive to July 1, 2023 and an additional across the board 5%…

If your boss or supervisor calls you into a meeting to ask you questions and you believe it might result in discipline against you, you have the right to be accompanied by a union steward or representative of your union.…

As you have likely heard, after 13 months of negotiations, your Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with PPS management last Thursday. Before we send you your ballot to vote, we wanted to share more details on all of…

This is a detailed summary of the Tentative Agreement that your Bargaining Team reached with PPS on Thursday, January 18th. Read the full set of Tentative Agreements here. Questions? Contact your Organizer, Joe Cartino at cartinoj@seiu503.org Appendix A – Nutrition…