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Don’t be fooled by the Freedom Foundation

An extreme anti-worker organization deceptively titled the Freedom Foundation (who often go by OptOutToday) is actively trying to weaken our union. You or your coworkers may have been contacted by them directly. 

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Text Message Terms and Conditions

We will be using SMS as means of communicating with our union members whom we represent as the legal agent of representation before their employer.  You can expect occasional broadcasts of organization-wide announcement that impact all members, and replies to inbound messages from members who have signed up for our union.

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Oakland’s Mayor Takes Cuts and Concessions off the Table

On Friday, June 19, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff announced she would not implement cuts to jobs and services. After a long-fought campaign, our members beat back the Mayor’s attack. 

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Oakland administration claimed that their budget was broken, and the only way they could fix it was by slashing services to public, cutting the hours of the city’s so-called ‘temporary, part-time’ workforce, and possible mass layoffs of permanent workers. 

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SEIU 1021 members join app workers protesting misclassification outside Uber CEO’s San Francisco Mansion

On June 24, SEIU 1021 members joined over 100 app workers with We Drive Progress and Gig Workers Rising in a caravan of cars through San Francisco to the front doorstep of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s mansion in Pacific Heights. Drivers were protesting their ongoing, illegal misclassification by app companies as independent contractors, a practice which Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and others use to deny workers basic rights and protections like paid sick leave, overtime, minimum wage, and other employee benefits.

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Help with Text Messages

SEIU Local 1021 may text you in several ways.

1. Person-to-person: your union rep or a volunteer may send you text messages individually.

2. Chapter or area group texts: the local may send occasional alerts to chapters or specific areas to let our members know about important news or actions.

3. Localwide group messages: if you want to stay informed about what the local is doing as a whole, please text GO1021! We will send you updates roughly once a week to let you know what’s going on across our jurisdictions.