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GOT FAIR PAY?
Do You Feel Underpaid?
SEIU Local 1021 will be hosting two workshops on how to fight for “equity adjustments,” which are wage increases for specific classifications that can be shown to be underpaid compared to similar job classifications with similar employers.
Fed-Up Mendocino County Workers to Hold Pickets in Willits, Ukiah, and Fort Bragg to Alert Public to Administration’s Failures
As the San Francisco lawyers negotiating for the County rack up hundreds of thousands in fees, administration stubbornly refuses to address the staffing crisis decimating critical services for the county’s most vulnerable, demanding takeaways during recor
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUES. 9/27, WED. 9/28, THURS. 9/29**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, 510-710-0201
While We Fight to Solve the Recruitment and Retention Crisis, The County Proposes We Pay More for Healthcare
& Wants a Hard Cap on Vacation Time for All of Us
We’ve been more than clear with management so far: our workforce is suffering as our headcount dwindles and our workload goes through the roof.
So far, management’s only substantive responses have been to propose takeaways and concessions:
Solano County kicks off “Staff Up Solano” campaign with a strong silent action at the latest negotiations meeting
Public-sector workers across Northern California are facing staffing and retention issues, which in turn are impacting the important services they provide. Now, in partnership with IFPTE 21, our members in Solano County are calling attention to the ways that understaffing hurts us all, and in particular the most vulnerable members of our communities.
In Mendocino County, the fight for a living wage continues
SEIU 1021 members working for Mendocino County are still locked in a tough fight for a fair contract with the county administration and board of supervisors, who continue to cry poverty despite lack of evidence of a financial crisis. Even worse, they are blaming faulty bookkeeping for their own incompetence or unwillingness to find solutions to the County’s severe staffing crisis, even as it slows down and endangers crucial services for the most vulnerable residents.
Meet the Sonoma County Bargaining Team
August 31, newly elected members of the Sonoma County bargaining
team met at the SEIU 1021 Santa Rosa office for an initial
meeting to start getting to know each other and familiarizing
themselves with what to expect in contract negotiations this
year.
The new bargaining team includes representatives elected from the
clerical, service and tech, non-supervisory maintenance, social
services, nursing, and general supervisory divisions, as well as
chapter officers.