Search: Home, 07/2021
Results
The 2021 Virtual Member Convention Platforms will focus on justice, unions for all, member unity and more
The 2021 SEIU 1021 Virtual Member Convention event committee has been working diligently behind the scenes to determine and select the convention platforms that chart the course of the union for the next 3 years.
Caring about CalPERS: An interview with SEIU Local 1021 Retiree Council Chair Peter Albert
Managing pension and health benefits for more than 1.6 million California public employees, retirees, and their families, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is the largest public pension fund in the United States. At the top of the CalPERS executive branch agency is the Board of Administration.
We did it! HR360 workers reach historic first Tentative Agreement
Huge news—incoming SEIU 1021, 721 and 221 members at HealthRight360 officially have a Tentative Agreement for their first union contract! This historic victory for our union and for non-profit workers in California was made possible by solidarity and hard work from hundreds of HR360 workers up and down the state of California.
SEIU 1021 members reflect on their experiences applying for the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s C.L. Dellums African American Leadership School
This year, five SEIU Local 1021 members were accepted into the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s CL Dellums African American Leadership School. This six-week program brings together and trains young emerging leaders to strengthen the connection between the Black community and the labor movement and promote the interests of Black workers within their unions and their communities.
Santa Rosa CityBus drivers stand with their community ensuring essential transportation continues
Sign our petition to show your support.
Even as COVID-19 wanes in the face of vaccinations and ongoing safety measures, the employees of Santa Rosa City Transit are ensuring that the essential lifeline provided by public transit remains unbroken.
Scabby the Rat Lives!
The Powerful Symbol of a Fighting Union Survives Another Legal Attack
If you’ve shown up at an SEIU 1021 strike, you’ve probably seen Scabby the Rat, a giant inflatable rodent looming over the crowd and showing everybody with eyes that there’s a rat inside the building. For years, on strike lines and other labor movement actions, Scabby has symbolized a bad boss inside and a fighting union outside.
The FAST Recovery Act: Fast Food Workers Rally in Stockton
“All American City,” the motto of Stockton, California, rings hollow when its Assemblymember, Carlos Villapudua, took the easy way out and abstained from voting “yes” for Assembly Bill 257 - the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, or FAST Recovery Act.
SEIU 1021 leaders back a new Air Quality Resolution to Protect our Communities
As the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board gets set to vote on a new resolution to protect our air and reduce particulate matter on Wednesday, July 21, SEIU 1021 leaders are voicing their support to protect the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Labor Leaders Lead the March for the Build Back Better Plan
In the nineteen-thirties and forties, it was the labor movement that brought the United States, and the world, out of the Great Depression. Only a decade ago, it was millions of working-class people that saved the U.S. and the world from the worst of the Great Recession.
Now, COVID-19 has revealed the structural inequalities about how our profit-first society runs. The pandemic has laid bare the injustice we see in race, class, gender, ethnicity, and more. It has also exposed the indifference to human suffering that is endemic to a system that favors the few over the many.
CCA Staff and Adjuncts stand strong at their Union BBQ and petition launch
On Sunday, July 18, 2021, dozens of CCA Staff, Adjuncts, and supporters gathered at the community grills near Lake Merritt Boat House in Oakland to celebrate a tough collective year on zoom and to launch the official CCA petition against President Beal.
After a year of ongoing negotiations, the CCA union is taking the fight to the boss by launching a contract petition in the face of sluggish negotiations and disgraceful conduct led by CCA’s union-busting attorney Michael Vartain.