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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.
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.
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.
Member Interview: Organizing Good Trouble with SEJ Committee Chair Derrick Boutte
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”
–U.S. Representative John Lewis, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama, March 1, 2020
Every three years, the leadership of SEIU 1021 organizes a convention where members gather, build community, and lay the foundation for our organizing in the years to come. You can learn more about this year’s convention at 1021convention.org.