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Hundreds of Alameda County workers and community members picket to say “STAFF UP NOW!”
On Monday, February 13, hundreds of Alameda County workers and community members rallied at Lake Merritt Amphitheater to protest the county’s nearly 25% vacancy rate, with 2,611 unfilled positions.
The rally started with a moment of silence for Richard Valle, a longtime champion of labor and progressive causes across the East Bay, who recently passed away. The workers planted flags to represent the 2,611 vacancies, and marched to 1221 Oak St. to deliver a letter demanding the Board of Supervisors solve the staffing crisis.
Hayward Unified Schools Classified Staff Rally for Healthcare at School Board
Currently, HUSD staff receive no healthcare benefits – an untenable situation that is exacerbating a staffing crisis and causing significant hardship
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201
As Mediation Continues, PURPLE UP EVERY FRIDAY
February 2023 Union Update
Port management continues to push for takeaways in mediation.
They want to:
- Force us to accept a no-strike clause
- Reject our swing shift and graveyard shift differentials
- Deny us a fair raise as inflation continues to hurt our members
- Refuse dedicated safety training for Port workers
- Reduce the rights of custodians to have their bidded shifts
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. We need to purple up every Friday to show management that we’re united and we won’t accept these takeaways.
San Francisco Supervisor “Fed Up” with Failure of City-Funded Nonprofit to Address Charges of Union-Busting and Threatens Subpoena
Nonprofit workers applaud move to hold Felton Institute accountable for unlawful, anti-union activity after agency management is a no-show at a recent Board of Supervisors’ hearing
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
Contact: Carlos Rivera, carlos.rivera@seiu1021.org, (415) 378-2376
SF City Attorney issues subpoena to nonprofit Felton Institute amidst unprecedented union-busting by a city-funded nonprofit
On February 7, SF Supervisor Myrna Melgar announced that the San Francisco City Attorney had issued a subpoena that will legally compel Felton management to appear before the full Board of Supervisors and answer questions about their unlawful anti-worker behavior.
The Legacy of Brad Lomax: A Pioneering Advocate for Disability Rights
By the SEIU Local 1021 Workers with Disabilities Committee
Bradford Clyde “Brad” Lomax was a Black activist and one of the pioneers of the disability-rights movement. Through his work with the East Oakland Center for Independent Living, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and his role in passing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Brad Lomax raised awareness of the intersection of disability and race, paving the way for greater progress in securing the rights of people with disabilities.
SFUSD T-shirt Time
As we prepare to take more actions to secure the contract we need and deserve and to force the district to end the payroll nightmare, we want to show our solidarity by wearing our union T-shirts.
Please fill out this quick form so we can make sure to have enough T-shirts in the right sizes for all of our members.
Coffee tastes better when its unionized: Peet’s Coffee workers hold rally after winning first union vote in North America
After voting fourteen to one to become the first unionized Peet’s Coffee location in the United States, Peet’s Coffee workers, now members of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, held a rally on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in front of the coffeehouse in North Davis. The vote comes after nearly nine months of workers organizing with SEIU Local 1021 and Workers United, an SEIU affiliate organizing workers on the “Starbucks Workers United” campaign.
SFUSD classified staff rally at school board, demand urgent action to address ongoing payroll debacle and staffing crisis
Over 150 SEIU 1021 SFUSD members turned out to last Tuesday's school board meeting demanding urgent action
There is a term to describe when an employer does not pay its employees what it owes them for work performed: wage theft. For over a year now, since rolling out its boondoggle of a new payroll system, San Francisco Unified School District has been committing wage theft. Despite claims from its new superintendent that a new “command center” would make sure shortchanged employees are made whole, that has not materialized, as help tickets continue to go unanswered, calls go unreturned, and desperate employees who go in person are turned away.