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Rich Peppers Becomes Chair of PEBB

Rich Peppers Becomes Chair of PEBB

February 18, 2010 -- Rich Peppers, assistant executive director of SEIU Local 503, has been elected chair of the Public Employees Benefit Board which provides coverage to 45,000 state employees and their dependents. Barney Speight, director of healthcare purchasing for the Oregon Health Authority, is the vice chair. Read More >>
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Healthcare Groups Among Donors to 'Yes' on 66, 67

Healthcare Groups Among Donors to 'Yes' on 66, 67

SEIU, CareOregon and Oregon Health Care Association top the list
January 6, 2010 -- The majority of the $3.5 million raised to support ballot measures 66 and 67 has come from public employee unions that represent over 130,000 Oregon workers. However, the healthcare community has also weighed in, according to data filed with the Oregon Elections Division reported by Common Cause. Read More >>
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Lynn-Marie Crider Joins OHPR

Lynn-Marie Crider Joins OHPR

September 3, 2009 -- Lynn-Marie Crider has joined the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research as a policy analyst after spending five years with the Service Employees International Union, Local 49. Read More >>
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Legacy Good Sam Workers Reach Tentative Agreement

Legacy Good Sam Workers Reach Tentative Agreement

SEIU hospital workers didn't get everything they wanted, but feel good about agreement
UPDATE: July 23, 2009 -- Contract officially ratified.
July 17, 2009 -- Two weeks after negotiations stalled and SEIU staged an informational picket, Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital employees reached a tentative agreement Wednesday (July 15) on a new three-year contract. Read More >>
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Service Workers Picket Legacy

Service Workers Picket Legacy

Hospital service workers at Legacy Good Sam want greater pay and get this: Better healthcare benefits
July 2, 2009 -- The employment contract for service workers at Legacy Good Samaritan hospital expired Wednesday (June 30) without agreement after negotiations broke down between SEIU Local 49 and Legacy management. Read More >>
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Salem Demonstrators Demand Healthcare Reform

Salem Demonstrators Demand Healthcare Reform

Close to 400 people descended on the state Capitol on April 8 to lobby their legislators and demonstrate for healthcare reform.
April 15, 2009 -- “It’s kind of like the government and the insurance companies get to decide who lives and who dies,” said Judith Auslander, 60, who will lose her eligibility for the Oregon Health Plan in April. Read More >>
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Labor Board Rejects SEIU Splinter Bid in CA

Labor Board Rejects SEIU Splinter Bid in CA

The National Labor Relations Board sides with SEIU over dispute with Oakland dissidents
Originally in San Francisco Chronicle
March 24, 2009 -- The effort by a new labor union to represent 14,000 Catholic Healthcare West workers in California has been dismissed by a National Labor Relations Board regional director who ruled that the contract between the employees' longtime union, Service Employees International Union, and the hospital chain bars such overtures.
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