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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.
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.
SEIU 1021 Members Fight for Union Jobs Across the Country
When anti-worker attacks come, union members know that the only way to fight them off is through solidarity. That’s why two SEIU 1021 members recently traveled to Wisconsin to help nurses at University of Wisconsin Health win their union back.
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.
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.
Mills College Staff Union rallies and marches for a better future
“Who makes Mills? We make Mills!” The protest chants echoed throughout the Oakland, California private women’s liberal arts college. The militancy of the Mills College Staff Union, which represents four hundred staff and non-tenured faculty, was on full display. On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, hundreds of Mills College staff, adjunct faculty, teachers, professors, students, and community allies rallied at Rothwell Center in front of Mills Hall.
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.