Oregon School Employees Association Archives

Worker safety

Student behavior – including assaults – are a factor in record-high classroom aide and support staff turnover.

Sarah Wofford is the new top officer at the Oregon School Employees Association, replacing former president Lisa Gourley.

The new award, for school support workers, is the result of an OSEA-backed bill passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2019.

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SB 1049 resulted in dramatic reductions to the pensions that public employees will receive.

Plaintiffs say SB 1049 is a breach of contract, an illegal taking, and violates the Constitution.

The Labor Appreciation and Recognition Night banquet raised a record $21,000 for Labor’s Community Service Agency.

Most of the endorsements are for school boards and school bond measures.

Some in the Oregon Legislature want to divert current employee contributions to make up for the system’s investment losses.

Oregon Special Education personnel all too frequently are injured by their students.

Union members get 80,000 books into the hands of low-income kids in Beaverton, Sweet Home and Woodburn.