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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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