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Report from the 1021 Convention

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Report from the 1021 Convention

Published on February 19th 2012

SEIU Local 1021 held its first-ever Member Convention Feb. 11-12, where hundreds of elected delegates from nearly every chapter of the local voted overwhelmingly to adopt a Two-Year Plan that will set our future course as a united Local 1021.

Delegates packed a ballroom and spilled into the next room and hallways at the convention, which took place at the Airport Hilton in Oakland. They brought their worries, apprehensions and doubts — but also their ideas, dreams and enthusiasm — to culminate six months of work gathering input from members to develop the plan: 130 chapter meetings, 10 delegate meetings, 400 phone interviews, 600 online surveys. The process clearly got members thinking: post-it sheets packed with ideas and issues brainstormed at chapter meetings lined the walls of the ballroom where the main events took place. Members confronted their problems, assessed their needs and then imagined solutions.

Oakland Community-Labor meeting packs house, punch

Published on February 3rd 2012

Nearly 200 SEIU 1021 members and other union workers, community activists, Occupy Oakland members and clergy packed a dinner meeting in downtown Oakland on Thursday, Feb. 2. They enjoyed insightful and inciting presentations made better by mouthwatering barbeque ribs and chicken, potato salad, BBQ beans, cornbread, salad and lemonade donated by the host, Everett and Jones BBQ.

Purple and yellow balloons and SEIU picket signs decorated the banquet hall. Organized by SEIU 1021’s Oakland chapter officers -- President Dwight McElroy, Vice President Al Marshall and Second Vice President Cheryl Dunaway -- the evening’s theme was the need for community-labor coalitions to stand together for economic and social justice.

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SEIU 1021 saves members' SF Redevelopment jobs

Published on January 28th 2012

As the state delivered an uppercut to cities by dissolving their Redevelopment Agencies and seizing their funds, SEIU 1021 moved quickly to help keep the San Francisco agency’s projects cheaper for the City, while retaining the experienced and dedicated staff that keep the City’s economic development engine running.

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An Imposing Task: SEIU 1021 fights back against epidemic of contract impositions

Published on December 10th 2011

The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors approved an 18-month contract with SEIU 1021 members this week, following a supermajority ratification vote among members the week before.

The votes happened only after long and contentious negotiations. Our bargaining team made significant movement at the table, but county negotiators stalled and instead marched towards imposition -- an anti-union tactic that SEIU1021 members have been confronting with increasing frequency all over the local.

"The county clearly had a goal of imposition in mind. We were able to avoid that fate, but it was a close call," said Patrick Ikeda, president of the San Joaquin County chapter.

Contract impositions have hit SEIU 1021 members like a plague epidemic. Our members bargained more than 100 contracts in 2011 -- more than half the local -- everywhere facing this strategic effort to attack collective bargaining and take back any gains that we and other unions have made throughout the years.