Search: 10/04/2021

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“History was made today”: A Historic Coalition Helps Working People in Hayward Speak Up for a Fair Contract and Services for the Whole Community

Suzanne Philis addresses the coalition rally in front of City Hall.

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.

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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.”