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- SFERS moves toward fossil fuel divestment
... Hawthorne presented a resolution passed by SEIU 1021’s San Francisco COPE committee calling on the SFERS board to: 1) ...
Post - 03/17/2015 - 3:51pm - 0 comments
- Contingent Faculty at St. Mary’s College Win Important Agreement During First Contract Negotiations Regarding Unemployment Insurance Claims
Some of SEIU 1021’s newest members, contingent faculty at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, have long been faced with a yearly conundrum–the same ... expensive region in the country. At St. Mary’s College, administration has been contesting the eligibility ...
Post - 06/23/2015 - 3:49pm - 0 comments
- SEIU 1021 Members Testify to Workers’ Rights Board about Impact of Adjunct Faculty Working Conditions on Higher Education
... take her out of it, and she doesn’t understand why she’s not going to gymnastics anymore.”Jessica Beard, an adjunct professor ... to action from students who have been helping faculty’s efforts to win a fair contract, the Workers’ Rights Board panel, ...
Post - 09/15/2015 - 3:35pm - 0 comments
- Marriage equality ruling advances justice
In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v.Hodges, SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry ... In the fullness of time, love always wins, and today’s reflection of that reality from the Supreme Court is cause for ... overcome these attacks and restore the Supreme Court’s vital role in our democracy, above politics and partisanship.” (Post, ...
Post - 06/26/2015 - 3:31pm - 0 comments
- “When I retire, I hope…”
... The sponsors of the day-long forum, dubbed “California’s Tomorrow: New Visions for Retirement Security,” released a new study — “Aging California’s Retirement Crisis” — which found disturbing statistics and trends in ...
Post - 10/20/2015 - 3:27pm - 0 comments
- Secure Choice Board hearings pit big business against … everyone
... Berkeley researchers. Their “ Aging California’s Retirement Crisis: State and Local Indicators ,” found: ... and bonds in proportions determined by the participant’s age. Younger participants would have a larger share of their investments ...
Post - 03/08/2016 - 4:17pm - 0 comments
- MILLS’ ADJUNCT PROFESSORS WIN FIRST EVER CONTRACT; INCLUDES BEST IN THE NATION JOB PROTECTIONS
... to semester. Too often, adjuncts will get a month’s notice that their course has been cancelled leaving them no time to replace ... to improve teaching and learning conditions at the women’s college campus in Oakland. “Most striking to us among the injustices ...
Post - 03/21/2016 - 2:51pm - 0 comments
- SEIU 1021 members join statewide fight for $15 minimum wage, affordable housing
... Bay Area these folks can afford to rent. That’s why the Fight For 15 action in Oakland this Thursday is morphing into a ... 14 action. Liz Torres When a city’s housing crisis becomes personal, it is often accompanied and exacerbated by ...
Post - 04/12/2016 - 2:48pm - 0 comments
- ART PROFESSORS TO ART COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: YOU FAIL!
... by my inability to contribute more to our family’s well-being, said an Adjunct Professor at CCA. The labor ... conditions in higher education including: Saint Mary’s College, Holy Names University, Notre Dame de Namur University, ...
Post - 05/02/2016 - 2:40pm - 0 comments
- Community prods Santa Rosa City Council to support rent control
... situation has gotten extreme. Nearly half of Santa Rosa’s renter households are “overpaying households,” meaning they pay more ... more than 20% in the past 2.5 years. And the region’s low 1%vacancy rate has made it nearly impossible for evicted ...
Post - 05/11/2016 - 2:35pm - 0 comments