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Alameda County COPE Teaches How to Win for Working People
Going Beyond the Bargaining Table with the Power of Politics and the Public
October 12, 2021: Strong contracts are not just won at the bargaining table: They take energized and active members across the workplace, and they can also require a political approach and getting the public on our side. On Sunday, October 10, a group of Alameda County Committee on Political Education (COPE) members held a panel discussion on how to use public outreach and political pressure to win big at the bargaining table.
IATSE Members Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize a Strike to Demand Better Working Conditions
October 12, 2021: Imagine this scenario: You sit down in front of your TV screen, tablet, or phone. You log onto the Paramount+ video-on-demand streaming service app to catch up on Star Trek: Discovery. You wait patiently for the blue and white Paramount mountain logo to fade. You wait. You wait some more. Then, nothing happens. It is frozen, stuck, and no longer working.
Two for two: Miller and Pacheco win 2021 CalPERS Board of Administration race
Victory! SEIU Local 1021, along with firefighters, teachers, health care workers, and the rest of the California labor movement, successfully led the effort to re-elect David Miller and elect Jose Luis Pacheco to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Board. At stake during the race for the Board of Administration were the hard-earned retirement savings and the health care benefits of its over two million members.
California College of the Arts Staff and Faculty Continue to Fight for a Fair Contract, as the National Labor Relations Board Issues an Unfair Labor Practice Complaint
Since California College of the Art (CCA) staff formed their union with SEIU Local 1021 two years ago, they have been working hard to secure a fair contract with a living wage and job security. CCA non-tenured faculty have also been at the bargaining table for over a year since their first contract expired.
“History was made today”: A Historic Coalition Helps Working People in Hayward Speak Up for a Fair Contract and Services for the Whole Community
Hayward City workers have had enough of City leaders slow-playing contract negotiations and refusing to invest in services for the community, and are fighting back–together. A coalition has brought workers from SEIU 1021, IFPTE Local 21, and HAME (Hayward Association of Management Employees) together to tell the City that these are the workers who make Hayward work, and they deserve better.
1021 Members Work to Assess and Address the Housing Crisis in Mendocino County
Oct. 5, 2021: “I can think of half a dozen employees that the County has offered jobs to here on the coast, but they had to turn down the offer, because they couldn’t find anywhere to live,” reported a Mendocino County employee in Fort Bragg in response to a community survey administered recently by the SEIU 1021 Mendocino County Chapter’s Housing Options Committee, which formed this spring to assess the depth and breadth of the county’s housing crisis and work on solutions.
What Will It Take to Ease the Affordable Housing Crisis in Mendocino County?
The SEIU 1021 Mendocino County Chapter’s Housing Options Committee formed this spring to assess the depth and breadth of the county’s housing crisis and work on solutions. In response to a recent community survey, a Mendocino County employee in Fort Bragg shared an anecdote that sums up the problem our members have set out to solve: “I can think of half a dozen employees that the County has offered jobs to here on the coast, but they had to turn down the offer, because they couldn’t find anywhere to live.”
SEIU 1021 Pledges to Work for Environmental Justice and Climate Action
Convention Delegates Adopted the Environmental Justice and Climate Action Plank by 94%
The third plank of the 2021 Virtual Convention was one that hasn’t always been a priority for labor unions—but is becoming undeniably more urgent every day.
SEIU 1021 Commits to Leading Fight for Economic Justice Across Sectors
Convention Delegates Adopted the Economic Justice Plank by 96%
Unions like SEIU 1021 have always been the most powerful check on corporate power and income inequality—and after decades of attacks on labor rights and unions’ political influence by the corporations who profit mightily from exploitation and the right-wing politicians whose campaigns they fund, it’s more critical than ever that strong unions like ours work overtime to balance the playing field.