Last October, SEIU 1021 in coalition with over 20 unions and community organizations launched a boycott of Airbnb because of its $120 million lawsuit to avoid paying its taxes, as well as its contribution to San Francisco’s affordable housing crisis and its cofounder and board member Joe Gebbia’s work with the Trump administration. 

Today, we got great news: Airbnb’s lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco was settled for $0, making $120 million available to protect the vital city services that SEIU 1021 members provide. We now need to push the mayor and the Board of Supervisors put those funds toward protecting public services.
Read more about the agreement from Mission Local here.

“We appreciate City Attorney David Chiu’s commitment to ensuring that large corporations like Airbnb pay their fair share in taxes. As a result of this settlement, additional short-term funds will now be available for our public hospitals, health clinics, and safety-net programs,” said SEIU 1021 San Francisco Vice President Kristin Hardy.

Unfortunately, this is just a small portion of what we need to protect our residents from the devastating impacts of President Trump’s federal budget. That is why we must pass the Overpaid CEO Act (Prop D) in June to ensure that the biggest corporations, whose executives earn hundreds of times more than their average workers, contribute to closing the gap left by federal cuts.”

Volunteers, including SEIU 1021 members, gathered twice as many signatures from registered San Francisco voters as needed to get this measure, which will bring in $300 million a year to protect public services through a small tax on the largest corporations doing business in SF that pay their top executives >100x more than their average employees, on the ballot. Now we need to make sure voters understand why it’s so critical—and vote YES in June. That’s where YOU come in!

Join us Saturday, March 14, at 10 a.m. to start talking to voters about what San Francisco stands to lose if we don’t vote to pass Prop D, the Overpaid CEO Act. Our jobs, the services we provide, and San Francisco’s continued recovery depend on it. RSVP here.