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The Oregon WWS Public Employee W m t A ÌONTMQ The News of SEIU Local 503. OPEU The Mission of SEIU Local 503, OPEU To Improve the Quality of Life through Worker Empowerment and a Progressive Labor Movement. /V O W W Board of Directors President: Kathie Best, OIT Vice-President: Mark Gronso, ODOT Secretary-Treasurer: Stephen Barrett, OSH Executive Director: Leslie Frane Immediate Past President: Nancy Padilla, DHS District 1 Director: Mary Lang, DHS District 1 Director: Nancy Magill, DHS District 1 Director: Michael Simpson, DHS District 2 Director: Joe DiNicola, Revenue District 2 Director: Rosalie Pedroza, DHS District 2 Director: Anne Webb, Revenue District 2 Director: Darlene Wright, DMV District 3N Director: Bessie Johnson, Linn Co. District 3S Director: Ellen Miyo Ino Klaastad, UofO District 3S Director: Bart Lewis, UofO District 4 Director: Jim Stith, Jackson Co. District 4 Director: John Saylor, OIT District 5 Director: Mike Wendet, ODOT, District 5 Director: Patricia Fleming, DHS District 6 Director: Jessica Woodruff, Homcare District 6 Director: Yvonne Smith, DHS Retirees Local 001 Representative: Dave Grenbemer Headquarters/Salem Field Office 1730 Commercial Street SE, PO Box 12159 Salem, OR 97309-0159 503-581-1505 (Salem) or 800-452-2146 503-222-6878 (from Portland), FAX: 503-581-1664 e-mail: salem@opeuseiu.org o r Web: www.seiu503.org Portland Field Office 10401 NE Halsey, Portland, OR 97220 503-408-4090 (Portland) or 800-527-9374 FAX: 503-408-4099; e-mail: pdx@opeuseiu.org Eugene Field Office 440 E. Second Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401 541-342-1055 (Eugene) or 800-521-3446 FAX: 541-342-2932; e-mail: eugene@opeuseiu.org Bend Field Office 925 SE Second Street, Suite C, Bend, OR 97701-1756 541-385-8471 (Bend) or 800-832-0593 FAX: 541-388-9078; e-mail: bend@opeuseiu.org Pendleton Office John Murray Bldg., 200 SE Hailey, Suite 302 Pendleton, OR 97801-3069 541-276-4983 (Pendleton) or 800-452-8146 FAX: 541-276-4984; e-mail: pendleton@opeuseiu.org Medford Field Office 928 East Jackson Street, Medford, OR 97504-7025 541-779-4324 (Medford) or 800-452-7965 FAX: 541-779-4325; e-mail: medford@opeuseiu.org Corvallis Field Office 1425 NW Monroe Avenue, Suite I, Corvallis, OR 97330-5837 541-766-4968; FAX: 541-766-8425 e-mail: corvailis@opeuseiu.org TOPE Staff Interim Communications Director/Editor: Bentley Gilbert Graphic Designer: Bentley Gilbert Proofreader: Karrle Layne Circulation: Doug Hilfiker, Lila Overturf PAGE 2 T H E OREGON PUBLIC EM PLOYEE aining contracts in 2003. Plenty of worksite agitation and public pressure (top) w ill be necessary to win fair settlements. SEIU Local 503, OPEU Executive Director Leslie Frane (third from left in photo middle, left) meets with the bargaining delegates from OSU Local 083. The Union’s Higher Ed bargaining chair, Jim Brobisky speaks to the Bargaining Conference and DAS bargaining team member Gary Westoby speaks at a rally at the Valley Library on the OSU campus where picket signs are planted. Intelligence, solidarity, politics key to fair contracts in 2003 ntelligence and solidarity will be key components of our bargaining position as 90% of SEIU Local 503, OPEU members go to the table in 2003. A favorable political climate, determined by the outcome of the vote this November, will help, too. Bargaining surveys, distributed to all members, helped determine the issues and the priority they will have. The support they win in the workplace and at rallies and actions will determine their success. I Appeals court orders state to bargain health care benefits with temp workers he Oregon Court of Appeals has determined that health care benefits for temporary employees is a mandatory subject of bargaining. The Department of Administrative Services had refused to bargain over the subject, claiming that because temporary employees are excluded from PEBB benefits by statute, they could not receive health care benefits, whether provided by PEBB or by another provider. The state also claimed that DAS had no statutory authority to bargain health care benefits. By contrast, the court ruled that DAS has broad authority to; negotiate collective bargaining agreements. The state has set $250,000 set aside for health care benefits for temps j E
