Sacramento City Unified School District

SEIU 1021
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Sacramento City Unified School District

SEIU 1021 staff and member leaders are working hard to safeguard your health at work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to find employer-specific information, details, and documents to learn more about what’s happening in your worksite during this outbreak.

SCUSD Full TA '23-'25 (ratification dates 11/18 & 11/19)

Download the Sacramento City USD Ext. Agreement (2025-06-30)

SCUSD_Use of Outside Contractors SPED Instructional Aides MOU (2024-08-27)

SCUSD_Use of Outside Contractors IEP Designated Instructional Paraprofessions SPED (1-1 Aides) 11/6/2024

SCUSD_Use of Outside Contractors Occupational Therapy MOU (2024-08-27)

Download the Sacramento City Unified School District CBA 2011-2017

Download the Sacramento City Unified School District CBA Ext. Agreement (2017-2020)

Download the Sacramento City Unified School District Proposed MOU on Vaccine Testing (Aug. 2021)

Download the Sacramento City Unified School District COVID-19 Leave & Hazard Pay Agreement (2021-2022)

Download the Sacramento City Unified School District Bus Drivers MOU (April 2023)

Sacramento USD Summer Custodial Work MOU (2024-05-29)

Sacramento City USD Chapter Bylaws

Sacramento USD Health Aide MOU (2024-06-25)

Sacaramento USD Summer Program Amended MOU (2024-06-11)

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Sac City Unified Schools Staff & Educators Strike
Here's What You Need to Know & Where to Go to Support!

SEIU 1021 members along with the educators of Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) have been on strike since Wednesday, March 23, as District management continues to ignore its role in its staffing crisis and negotiate a fair contract that will retain and recruit staff. 

Watch our 3/26/22 9:30am update on where negotiations stand here.

 

Read our most up-to-date press releases here

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Our Joint Strike with SCTA Is Set to Begin Next Wednesday, March 23

Big thanks to the hundreds of you who came out to our rally with our union sisters and brothers from SCTA at the school board yesterday. Between our two unions and a fantastic outpouring of support from parents, community members, and other Sacramento area union members, we had roughly 2,500 people in attendance. Wow! What a show of force! We are so strong together. Check out photos from the rally on Facebook here!

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TOMORROW: Hundreds of SCUSD Educators and School Staff Joined by Parents and Community Supporters to Rally for Adequate Staffing, Support for Students and Fair Contracts
Every day 3,000 SCUSD students go without a substitute teacher and nearly 600 students go without any instruction due to a lack of independent study instructors.

**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR THURS. 3/17**

Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, SEIU 1021, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201

Jamie Horwitz, jhdcpr@starpower.net, (202) 549-4921

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Sacramento City Unified Schools Members Vote by 97% to Authorize Strike
No strike date has been set yet, but if SCUSD management continues to violate labor law, classified staff and educators will go on strike

Last week, Sacramento City Unified School District classified staff and educators voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. 97% of classified staff, who are represented by SEIU 1021, and 95% of certificated educators, who are represented by the California Teachers Association, voted yes. As a result, the SCUSD bargaining team now has the green light to call a strike if SCUSD management continues to negotiate in bad faith on key issues related to staffing, the quality of instruction, and health and safety protocols.

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Sacramento City Unified Schools Staff and Educators Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize an Unfair Labor Practice Strike
District employees are frustrated over inadequate staffing and a lack of support for students, despite unprecedented levels of state and federal funding and the district running record surpluses.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, March 11

Contact: SEIU 1021 Jennie Smith-Camejo 510-710-0201, Jennie.Smith-Camejo@seiu1021.org
SCTA Jamie Horwitz, 202-549-4921 (cell), jhdcpr@starpower.net 

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SEIU/SCTA Joint Plan of Action to Protest SCUSD Bad-Faith Bargaining & Address the Staffing Crisis

The staffing crisis continues in Sac City:

  • The shortage of bus drivers, instructional aides, health aides, custodians, and other classified support staff has hindered services to students.
  • 3,000 students every day are without even a substitute teacher.
  • 600 students remain waiting to be enrolled in independent study because there aren’t enough teachers.
  • Despite having the largest reserve fund in its history ($125 million) and having received an additional $313 million in federal and state COVID funds which the United State Secreta
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Sacramento City Unified School District Transportation Workers Protest Unsafe Working Conditions and Short-Staffing That Endanger Health and Safety of Kids, Staff
The situation has reached a crisis point in recent weeks, with supervisors telling bus drivers who test positive to continue working and putting kids who have tested positive on school buses

As the Omicron variant has ripped through Sacramento, schools that have long been at a tipping point are in a full-fledged crisis. Nowhere have the effects of the latest COVID surge been more acutely felt than among SCUSD transportation workers. These workers were already short-staffed before Omicron hit and now find themselves required to work in conditions that put themselves, their families, the students they transport, and entire school communities at grave risk.

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Important Bargaining Update– Action Needed!
Take Our Member Survey & Come to Our Action This Friday

Your bargaining team has met with the District several times in the last couple of weeks.

We asked the District to use some of their one-time COVID money to pay our members one-time hazard pay. We also asked for a couple of paid days for people to get vaccinated and boosted for those who haven’t, and of course we demanded more COVID leave time. Since the winter holidays, everyone has been heavily impacted by COVID. Many of our members are exhausting all their sick leave trying to cope.

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Sac City Unified School District Classified Workers

Just before midnight on Monday, April 19, a marathon mediation session between Sacramento City Unified School District and classified workers represented by SEIU 1021 produced a tentative agreement (TA) that both sides believe will allow SCUSD to safely welcome all students back to in-person learning. As a result of this TA, the Unfair Labor Practice strike that had been scheduled for Thursday and Friday is now canceled.

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SEIU 1021 Statement on Sacramento City Unified School District Teachers’ Strike

(Sacramento, CA) – SEIU 1021, the union representing 2,000 Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) workers, released the following statement on the teachers’ strike scheduled for Thursday, April 11. SEIU 1021 represents bus drivers, instructional aides, custodians, teachers’ aides, clerks, child care attendants, food service workers, and special education aides across the district’s 81 schools.