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Coffee tastes better when its unionized: Peet’s Coffee workers hold rally after winning first union vote in North America
After voting fourteen to one to become the first unionized Peet’s Coffee location in the United States, Peet’s Coffee workers, now members of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, held a rally on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in front of the coffeehouse in North Davis. The vote comes after nearly nine months of workers organizing with SEIU Local 1021 and Workers United, an SEIU affiliate organizing workers on the “Starbucks Workers United” campaign.
SFUSD classified staff rally at school board, demand urgent action to address ongoing payroll debacle and staffing crisis
Over 150 SEIU 1021 SFUSD members turned out to last Tuesday's school board meeting demanding urgent action
There is a term to describe when an employer does not pay its employees what it owes them for work performed: wage theft. For over a year now, since rolling out its boondoggle of a new payroll system, San Francisco Unified School District has been committing wage theft. Despite claims from its new superintendent that a new “command center” would make sure shortchanged employees are made whole, that has not materialized, as help tickets continue to go unanswered, calls go unreturned, and desperate employees who go in person are turned away.
Statement from SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford on the killing of Tyre Nichols by the Memphis Police
The members of SEIU 1021 are outraged by yet another killing of an unarmed person of color at the hands of police.
Our most heartfelt condolences go out to the family of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who succumbed to his injuries three days after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers at a traffic stop.
Lois Curtis: A Voice for the Voiceless in the Disability Rights Movement
By the SEIU Local 1021 Workers with Disabilities Committee
Lois Jeanette Curtis was a Black activist, artist, and advocate for people with disabilities. Born on July 14, 1967, in Atlanta, Georgia, Curtis was diagnosed with intellectual disabilities as a child and spent much of her life in institutions. However, she refused to be defined by her disabilities and instead became a vocal advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.
RSVP for 2/21 San Lorenzo Unified School District Mobilization
Please join your SEIU 1021 coworkers as well as San Lorenzo USD classified staff represented by CSEA and SLZUSD educators as we go to the school board to demand action to settle a fair contract that will address our staffing crisis.