Service Employees International Union Local 503 v. State

The Service Employees International Union Local 503 (SEIU) filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the Employment Relations Board (ERB), alleging that respondents State of Oregon, Department of Administrative Services (DAS), Department of Human Services (DHS), and the Home Care Commission (collectively, “respondents”) committed an unfair labor practice under ORS 243.672(l)(a) when DHS employees told a home care worker that her pay rate exception would be denied because home care workers had voted for representation by SEIU. ERB determined that an unfair labor practice had been…