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Show up for environmental justice!
Participate in the 3rd annual SEIU Climate Jobs & Justice Summit this Saturday, April 15!
Environmental justice — making sure everyone, including generations yet to come, has access to clean air, pure water, and the other natural resources we all need to live, thrive, and raise our families — is a core commitment of SEIU 1021. At our 2021 convention, delegates voted by 94% to adopt environmental justice and climate action as a plank of the work we do.
San Lorenzo USD classified workers win big with new contract
Members gain wage raises, increased longevity pay, and new holiday
With a strong turnout and 90% of members who voted voting yes to ratify the proposed contract, San Lorenzo Unified classified workers won a huge victory at their March 27 meeting!
Thanks to the bargaining team’s efforts and the membership showing up when called upon, this new contract gives members a 15% pay raise effective July 1, 2022, including retroactive pay from that date, and a 5% raise on July 1, 2023.
Starbucks workers find HELP in the United States Senate
In a jam-packed hearing room last Wednesday, March 29, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) heard testimony from members of Starbucks Workers United, an affiliate of SEIU, about the illegal retaliation they have faced for organizing. They also grilled former Starbucks chief executive officer Howard Schultz about his role in leading one of the most vicious union-busting campaigns in U.S. history.
California Academy of Sciences workers take their unionization campaign with SEIU 1021 public
On the eve of César Chávez Day, they introduced the world to CalAcademy Workers United at a public event in the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park
Thursday, on the eve of the holiday celebrating beloved labor organizer César Chávez, with the noontime sun beaming down after dreary days of rain and wind, dozens of California Academy of Sciences workers convened in the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park with a very important announcement.