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Corruption and Mismanagement at SF Museums Spark Demands by City Workers for Independent Oversight Committee
City Workers and Museum Patrons Call for Action to Stop Abuse and Corruption
Security guards,and admission attendants who are SEIU 1021 members at the Asian Art Museum, de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, testified on Friday about the rampant abuse and corruption by board members and top executives at the Fine Arts Museum (FAM) and the Corporation of Fine Arts Museums (COFAM). Their testimonies detailed financial mismanagement, lack of transparency, and unsafe working conditions at FAM and COFAM at the Government Audit Oversight Committee.
Take Action on International Workers’ Day
On International Workers’ Day, we honor the sacrifices workers and immigrants have made in the fight for justice.
Seize this moment in history. Demonstrate the strength of working people standing together. Show that we’re ready to defend worker and immigrant rights against fear and hate and that we have the power to stand up to the threats facing working families and our communities.
By building a mass movement in the streets that unites all of our struggles, we can win our fight for justice and dignity.
Bay Area Workers Urge Federal Judge to Rule Quickly to Protect Local Services from Illegal Trump “Sanctuary City” Order
San Francisco Federal Court is First to Hear Challenge to Hear Challenge to Trump Order Against Communities that Embrace Immigrants
SEIU 1021 members at SF Art Institute Win First-Ever Union Contract
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) adjunct professors ratified their first union contract on March 30. The professors joined Local 1021 in 2014 to seek a voice on the job, collective bargaining rights and compensation commensurate with their contribution to the art institution.
The three-year agreement makes significant progress in job security, and the recruitment and retention of quality professors. Students will benefit too as their professors now enjoy the prospect of long-term, stable employment.
California College of the Arts Adjunct Faculty Ratify First Contract
After nearly three years of organizing and more than forty bargaining sessions, adjunct faculty represented by SEIU Local 1021 have ratified a first union contract covering nearly 500 adjuncts at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco and Oakland.
United We Stand
Last fall’s election served as a wake-up call to millions of working people nationwide whose previous political activity began and ended with voting. But with the new and unprecedented threats to economic stability, health care, civil rights and civil liberties of the vast majority of the country, citizen activists are rising up to resist the repressive changes coming from Washington.
Not backing down on economic justice
Our members join hundreds at SFO as the Fight for $15 movement declares “Poverty Doesn’t Fly”
We Rise Up and Unite for Immigrant and Worker Rights on International Workers’ Day
SEIU 1021 members from across Northern California joined May Day actions in Santa Rosa, San Francisco and Oakland in a defiant and joyous celebration of the power of working people and the resilience of immigrant communities.
House Votes to Cut Taxes the Super-Rich, Raise Premiums, and Kill Healthcare for Millions
First and foremost, nothing has happened. There are no changes to the Affordable Care Act. Yet. There is no new law yet. Not until the Senate passes their own bill, and the president signs something.
But SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN. Just not yet. The House has adopted a new bill, by 2 votes – including a “yes” vote by every single California Republican– nd the Senate will adopt its own version. The only thing we know for sure is that the Senate version will be different from the House version because the Senate and the House always differ on any major legislation.
People’s Climate March Bay Area
SEIU 1021 members joined a crowd of a couple thousand people gathered at Lake Merritt in Oakland on a beautiful sunny Saturday, April 29, 2017, to urge the Trump administration to take the threat of climate change seriously. It was a truly striking moment of unity, organized by the People’s Climate Movement for Justice, Jobs, Peace and the Planet and was endorsed by SEIU 1021, the Alameda Central Labor Council, and 75 organizations working on behalf of environmental, economic, and social justice.