County of Sonoma

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Be sure to read the Region 6 Newsletter #1

Published on May 18th 2012

Your union leadership is sharing information and plans.

Bargaining Update - May 17, 2012

Published on May 18th 2012

3% reductions proposal & health care costs are at issue

SEIU 1021 Sonoma Endorsements

Published on May 11th 2012

June 2012, Primary Election

Absentee ballots for the June Primary are arriving at people’s doors; it’s time to pay attention to the election. Here is a list of endorsements for SEIU Sonoma and a little synopsis for each.

Latest bargaining update posted under Negotiations tab

Published on May 8th 2012

Here is the second update.

News from the Bargaining Table - April 17, 2012

Published on April 21st 2012

Sonoma County Bargaining update

Unfortunate Health Care choices for SEIU members and their families

Published on April 20th 2012

Families of some SEIU 1021 members cannot afford the health benefit cost increases.

Supervisors Efren Carrillo and Mike McGuire Encourage Community Engagement

Published on April 13th 2012

Event hosted by coalition of local non-profit groups to broaden citizen participation in local decision making

SEIU LOCAL 1021 WINS ARBITRATION!

Published on April 4th 2012

On February 27, 2012, an Arbitrator found that a grievance filed against Sonoma County in 2010 by SEIU Local 1021 had merit and was sustained. The grievance states that the County could not retro-actively remove the ability of an employee who purchased service time prior to 6/1/2009 to have that purchased time count towards their eligibility for retiree health.

Open the attached Victory Flyer to see details and determine if you are affected.

Sonoma's 2012 Negotiations Team

Published on March 17th 2012

Shirlee Zane, SEIU-endorsed candidate for Sonoma County Board of Supervisors District 3

Sonoma SEIU unites in BoS endorsements

Published on March 13th 2012

Some 50 Sonoma County SEIU 1021and UHW members took over a meeting room at the Steele Lane Community Center Monday evening, March 12 in a “Speak with One Voice” candidates night. They grilled four Board of Supervisor hopefuls and then together made their endorsements.

Both locals have major issues before the Board. The county workers’ contract is expiring and negotiations begin in about five weeks. Already even the most progressive Supervisors are talking about “shared sacrifice” and workers are bracing for concession proposals. The issue for UHW workers is how the county will allocate federal health and social services money their union secured.

Sonoma County Initial Bargaining Survey

Published on February 16th 2012

Your union contract with Sonoma County expires on August 31, 2012. Bargaining sessions with the County will begin soon. We would appreciate your input as we prepare our initial proposals to the County. Please take just a few minutes to complete the survey so we can hear what is important to you.

SURVEY DEADLINE IS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24^TH.

Click here to enter your responses to the SONOMA COUNTY BARGAINING – INITIAL MEMBER SURVEY or copy and paste this link into your web browser. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TGJS729.

Also in the "Current Downloads" in the right column is a copy of the survey you can print out and complete.

If you will be sending back the survey as an email document attachment, please email to: marcia.barton@seiu1021.org

If you are filling the survey out on hard copy, please make sure you either mail it to the SEIU office address below or drop it off at the office. Please don’t use County Courier because it can take weeks for us to get courier envelopes from the County.

Jerry Allen

Jerry Allen for Sonoma County Retirement Board

Published on November 18th 2011

The only SEIU 1021 member on the Sonoma County retirement board, Jerry Allen, is up for reelection. The union has endorsed him over his challenger, an attorney from the county counsel’s office.

“I believe we need labor advocates with the perspective of the rank and file on the board, voices of the common people,” said Allen, who works in the county’s Human Services department.