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SF RN Worksite Meetings & Ratification Details
Our Registered Nurse bargaining team has signed a Tentative Agreement (TA) for a new RN contract with the City and County of San Francisco. The TA includes progress on many of the priorities identified by members and your elected bargaining team: recruitment and retention of nurses, chronic understaffing, safety, and over-reliance on temps and travelers.
Our SF Registered Nurse team has reached a tentative agreement!
At 7:30 AM and after 22 hours of mediation, our Registered Nurse bargaining team signed a Tentative Agreement (TA) for a new RN contract with the City and County of San Francisco. The TA includes progress on many of the priorities identified by members and your elected bargaining team: recruitment and retention of nurses, chronic understaffing, safety, and over-reliance on temps and travelers.
Our tentative agreement includes:
City of Oakland Chapter Action Team Meeting
Via Zoom
Monday, June 13, 5:30 p.m.
Dial 1-669-900-6833
Enter Meeting ID: 839 0487 9078
Or Click: https://seiu1021.zoom.us/j/83904879078
Help us plan new actions and turn out people for an important City Council meeting on Thursday, June 16, at 10 a.m. to tell Council “We need to staff up Oakland NOW!”
This Council meeting will be a make-or- break moment for a strong contract with fair wages, improved medical benefits with a higher dental cap and no employee contributions.
Union Update
Port Management Unprepared for Arbitration
The Port communicated to SEIU that they wanted to settle
outstanding grievances before they go before an arbitrator. We
meet with the Port on June 6, 2022, with the intention of
settlement. As a union, we were prepared!
Adjunct faculty and lecturers at Santa Clara University will vote on whether to form their union
Adjunct faculty and lecturers at Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit university in Silicon Valley, have been working to organize a non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty union for five years. After years of organizing, adjuncts and lecturers are currently voting in their long-awaited union election. Nevertheless, after years of organizing and union-busting, NTT faculty at Santa Clara are currently voting in their long-awaited union election.
Fast-food workers rallying in Oakland and Sacramento on June 9 for the FAST Recovery Act
Fast-food workers are mobilizing for the first in a series of public events meant to apply pressure on California state senators and the governor to support Assembly Bill 257 - the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act or FAST Recovery Act.
Last chance to vote for leaders who will stand with working people!
Today is Election Day. Make sure to return your ballot before 8pm.
This is it. For months, and especially over the past few weeks, you have heard a lot from SEIU 1021 about the importance of today’s primary election. We have an excellent shot at making sure candidates who uphold our values, are committed to improving conditions in our communities, and are accountable to working people like us — not big corporations — are on the November ballot.
SEIU 1021 Fights For Higher Wages and Safer Workplace Conditions, While the City Refuses to Budge
City of Oakland management countered our wage proposal with 3% per year for three years, which doesn’t even keep up with the rising cost of living. Our proposal on wages would keep up with the cost of living and help workers stay in the Bay Area.
Management rejected our proposal to increase the annual dental cap even though it hasn’t increased since 2002.
While doing nothing to combat favoritism in hiring, management maintains its proposals to gut civil service rules and merit hiring.
As Bargaining Begins, the City Proposes Big Takeaways
The elected Bargaining Team has met several times with the City, passing 12 proposals to the City’s 7. On Wednesday, May 4, the City gave a presentation about their budget.
Nominate Yourself or Someone Else to Serve on Our Bargaining Team
Per the election rules (https://www.seiu1021.org/article/notification-nominations-alameda-county-bargaining-team) this nomination form has been closed as of June 6, 2022.