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- SEIU Local 1021: On the Front Lines Against Homelessness, Not the Homeless
Driven by skyrocketing housing costs and cuts to public services, Oakland’s housing and homelessness crisis continues to worsen. City of Oakland SEIU Local 1021 members have been told to clean up homeless encampments, where they’ve encountered ...
Post - 05/15/2017 - 12:50pm - 0 comments
- Climate Reality: How letting climate deniers make the rules will cost working people
Many people think of shrinking ice caps and disappearing rain forests when they hear the terms “environmental justice” and “climate justice.” But the reality of environmental devastation is much closer to home for many working people: Decades o ...
Post - 06/20/2017 - 12:46pm - 0 comments
- Notre Dame de Namur faculty win historic, wall-to-wall first contract
Faculty at Notre Dame de Namur (NDNU) University in Belmont, Calif., have ratified a first contract that wins better pay, job security for part-time adjunct professors and protects shared governance. The historic agreement covers all contingent ...
Post - 06/30/2017 - 12:41pm - 0 comments
- AB 1250 Passes Out of Senate Committee
Excellent advocacy work was done in Sacramento by our members as well as SEIU 521, 721 and 221 to move our bill limiting contracting out of public services out of the Senate Governance and Finance Committee. Members have been working in ...
Post - 07/18/2017 - 12:31pm - 0 comments
- VICTORY in Our Fight for Health Care Justice
After months of pressure from SEIU members across the country, hundreds of allied organizations, and thousands of individuals of all political persuasions, the effort in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed late Thursday night. ...
Post - 08/01/2017 - 12:29pm - 0 comments
- Workers Save Westside Community HIV/AIDS Program — Layoff Notices Rescinded
On August 1, SEIU 1021 members working at Westside Community Services HIV/AIDS program were shocked to receive layoff notices for the end of the month. For three decades the AIDS Case Management program has provided in-home services for clients ...
Post - 08/25/2017 - 12:21pm - 0 comments
- Stand Up for Strong Unions
The American Dream is based on the promise that if you work hard, you’ll be able to provide for yourself and your family. It’s the promise that we’d be able to provide opportunities for our children that weren’t available to us. The rig ...
Post - 03/20/2018 - 10:48am - 0 comments
- Reclaiming Labor Day
Despite attacks by corporations and self-interested politicians, union power is continuing to raise pay and amplifying working people’s voice on the job and in their communities. Marching in downtown Oakland, adjunct professor and Dominic ...
Post - 09/05/2017 - 10:43am - 0 comments
- Federal Budget Cuts Impact Local Jobs and Services
Tomorrow people across the country are calling Congress to demand they reject a disastrous budget that funds major tax cuts for greedy corporations by cutting valuable programs. Let’s tell Congress that we want more than a rigged budget t ...
Post - 09/12/2017 - 10:39am - 0 comments
- ‘We Stopped Them’
Latest Effort to Repeal the Affordable Care Act fails and millions will keep coverage, thanks to the actions of workers Last week, SEIU 1021 members joined with allies at emergency phone banks to stop Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill C ...
Post - 10/03/2017 - 10:36am - 0 comments