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Asian Health Services Reach Tentative Agreement After Long Negotiation

October 12, 2021: After a lot of hard work, effort, and patience, SEIU 1021 members at Asian Health Services (AHS) have finally reached a tentative agreement (TA) with management! The TA includes eight percent in raises over the next two years, as well as some equity adjustments for certain classifications and improvements in contract language around grievance and arbitration, sick leave, and more.

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Strikevember: Fast-food workers strike for better working conditions

Striketober is about to turn into Strikevember as the Fight for $15 and a Union movement readies for a California-wide strike. Fast-food workers at stores across the Golden State plan to walk off the job on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, and rally outside fast-food restaurants in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, and Sacramento. 

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OUSD Management Continues to Ignore Staff’s COVID Safety Demands

October 25, 2021: Nearly three weeks ago, on October 6, the SEIU 1021 Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) bargaining team, alongside Oakland Education Association (OEA), delivered extremely important proposals in our contract negotiations with OUSD management: a COVID-19 safety protocol designed to ensure that management started protecting the health and safety of District students, District employees, and the larger OUSD community.

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SEIU 521’s Kern County Chapter Authorizes Strike
SEIU 1021 Stands in Solidarity

October 18, 2021: In a month gaining significant press coverage as “Striketober,” SEIU Local 521 members employed by Kern County are the latest to join over 100,000 working people in the U.S. who have authorized a strike in their workplace. Kern County 521 members voted overwhelmingly–by 91 percent–to allow their bargaining team to prepare for an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike after over two years of fruitless negotiations with Kern County.

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Gig workers to galvanize the world on November 3

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, marks a somber day for gig workers across California. Gig companies spent more than $220 million promoting Proposition 22, an anti-worker law that allows DoorDash, Uber, Lyft, and other app-based companies to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than employees. That reclassification denies workers from seeking better workplace conditions, health care benefits, higher wages, personal protective equipment, and more.