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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.

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Mendocino Walks Out

Published on September 14th 2011

Trickle-Down Poverty: Mendocino workers walk off job to protest ultimatum & bad faith bargaining

SEIU 1021’s entire Mendocino County bargaining unit — more than 700 county workers — walked off the job Monday afternoon to protest and call the public’s attention to bad faith bargaining and retaliatory actions by the Board of Supervisors. As the supervisors’ forced deadline for a deal passed on Monday, we filed new Unfair Labor Practice charges with the NLRB.

It was the first time in county history that SEIU workers have walked out in protest. Hundreds of workers lined the streets in downtown Ukiah, Willits and Fort Bragg, waving signs and chanting as they circulated around major intersections while cars honked loud and long in support. On Tuesday morning, members carried their protest into the 9am Board of Supervisors meeting.

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Del Norte members hold protest - workers say they fear additional cuts in their pay

Published on June 27th 2011

Written by Kelley Atherton, The Triplicate

June 24, 2011 06:23 pm 

Employees of Del Norte County conducted lunch-hour and after-work protests Thursday regarding proposed pay cuts.

At lunchtime, members of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021 held up signs and chanted “Cut from the top, make the layoffs stop” on Northcrest Drive in front of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Some passing drivers honked, eliciting cheers from the union workers. 

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SEIU 1021 members turn up the heat in San Joaquin

Published on June 2nd 2011

In San Joaquin, summer is when it's hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk. But that's nothing compared to the heat that SEIU 1021 members are cranking up in this Central Valley county.

County workers have launched a public campaign — "Keeping Our Dream Alive" — to rally support for public services and opposition to wasteful spending proposed by the Board of Supervisors. At the same time, Head Start workers are fighting against restructuring that means taking funding from frontline positions and giving it to unnecessary upgrades and administrative costs.

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