Here is an answer for Gerhard's special case, where the open sets are disjoint.
Claim. The union of an arbitrary family of pairwise disjoint open meager sets is meager.
Proof. Suppose that $U_i$ are pairwise disjoint and meager, so that $U_i\subset\bigcup_n C_n^i$, where each $C_n^i$ is closed and nowhere dense. Let $C_n=\bigcup_i (C_n^i\cap U_i)$. This set is not dense on any nonempty open set, because if it were dense on some nonempty $V$, then it would be dense on some nonempty $V\cap U_i$, but that is impossible since by the disjointness hypothesis only $C_n^i$ contributes points to this set, and it is nowhere dense. Thus, the closure of $C_n$ is closed and nowhere dense, and $\bigcup_i U_i$ is contained within $\bigcup_n C_n$, since each $U_i$ is contained within and is in fact equal to $\bigcup_n (C_n^i\cap U_i)$. So $\bigcup_i U_i$ is meager. QED
Perhaps a proof for the general case can be made by putting the sets $C_n^i$ together more carefully, and I should like to see this.