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SEIU 1021 members at Bay Area Discovery Museum celebrating their union going public in November 2024

Bay Area Discovery Museum Employees Overwhelmingly Pass Strike Authorization Vote

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Contact: Ian Lee, ian.lee@seiu1021.org, (510) 384-7165   

Wednesday, July 15 at 5:30 PM, the proud employees who keep Bay Area Discovery Museum functioning — including workers from Museum Experience, School and Community Programs, Facilities, Exhibits, Membership and Visitor Services, Research and Evaluation, and Development — passed a strike authorization vote by 92%.  

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Alameda County Supervisors and SEIU 1021 Union Members Celebrate Major Victory for Public Health 

Oakland, CA — One year after Donald Trump signed HR 1, the Big Ugly Bill, into law, SEIU 1021 members and Alameda County Supervisors will gather at Wilma Chan Highland Hospital on June 8 at 11 a.m. to celebrate a local win for public health, the recent Alameda County budget, passed unanimously by the Board, which included nearly 20 million dollars for Alameda Health System (AHS), money designated to prevent layoffs and extend an important outpatient behavioral health program through October 31.

 

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Vacaville Unified Classified Staff Ratify Strong New Contract After Months of Community Action

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Contact: Chelsea Fink, chelsea.fink@seiu1021.org, (510) 435-8282

VACAVILLE, CA -  On Thursday, May 28, Vacaville Unified School District classified staff, including custodians, bus drivers, paraprofessionals, nutrition workers, maintenance staff, clerical workers, and student supervision workers, overwhelmingly ratified a new two-year contract with a near-unanimous yes vote.

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Seniors, Healthcare Workers Fight Back Against SF Clinic Closures & Program Cuts, Call Out CEOs Opposing Prop D
The mayor’s cuts are hitting seniors, LGBTQ youth, high-risk new mothers, and nursing home patients hard—as billionaires and CEOs dump money to fight the business tax that could protect their services. Impacted residents & workers rallied Wednesday

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SF Department of Public Health Nurses, Therapists, Healthcare Workers, Patients to Plead with SF Health Commission to Reverse Course on Layoffs, Cuts, and Closures
Impacted workers and community members will flood the Commission’s hearing to protest the planned closure of clinics and dismantling of programs like Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health

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Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201

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SF City Workers to March Against Harmful, Unnecessary Cuts
City workers are using Tax Day to call for a budget that would “Tax Corporate Greed” instead of cutting essential services.

Contacts: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201
Luke Thibault, lthibault@ifpte21.org, (760) 534-9958

(San Francisco, CA) On April 6, Mayor Lurie’s administration sent layoff notices to over 100 city workers across 18 departments. The administration is eliminating programs that serve the city’s most vulnerable residents, including unhoused youth, seniors, and medically fragile patients at Laguna Honda Hospital. Lurie has promised to go even further in his coming budget.

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SF City Workers Denounce Layoffs, Call for “Fair Solutions that Stand Up to Trump”

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Media Contacts: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201
Luke Thibault, lthibault@ifpte21.org, (760) 534-9958

(San Francisco, CA) Today, Mayor Lurie’s administration issued layoff notices to San Francisco city workers and froze thousands of positions. Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1) last year has had a major impact on the City’s budget, but there are local solutions that don’t require cutting staff and programs that residents rely on.

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SEIU Local 1021’s City of Oakland Chapter is working for its members and Oakland’s residents

City of Oakland Chapter President Antoinette Blue, an emergency dispatcher, said, “Our democratically elected chapter officers and democratically elected bargaining team are working every day to help our members do their jobs in the safest, smartest ways they can so that Oakland residents get the services they deserve. We do this by enforcing the contract that keeps people safe and able to work productively, and we do this by bargaining a strong new contract, which we’re in the process of doing currently.

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San Francisco Superior Court Clerks Give 3-Day Notice to Begin Open-Ended Unfair Labor Practice Strike
Unless management agrees to a deal that addresses the longstanding staffing and training issues that currently plague the courts, the courts will effectively be shut down starting this Thursday, February 26.

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Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, (510) 710-0201, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org

Today, Monday, February 23, San Francisco Superior Court clerks gave court CEO Brandon Riley notice of their intent to strike starting Thursday, February 26.