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SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford's Statement on ICE Violence in Minnesota
Today is Wednesday. But for many of us, it doesn’t feel like just another Wednesday. Even as we go to work as always, taking care of our families and our day-to-day responsibilities, we are grappling with feelings of anxiety, fear, rage, uncertainty, and despair. How have we gotten to this point? How much further can it go? What can we do to stop it?
“Cuts don’t heal. Care does.”
SEIU 1021 members take their fight against layoffs to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors
On Monday, January 26, Alameda Health System workers escalated their fight against layoffs. They packed an Alameda County Board of Supervisors Health Care Committee meeting, where dozens of members gave hours of passionate testimony alongside patients, doctors, and others.
SEIU 1021 members hold vigils across the Bay for Alex Pretti
On Monday, January 26, SEIU 1021 members at San Francisco General Hospital and Wilma Chan Highland Hospital in Oakland held vigils in honor of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse for a VA hospital who was murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis after trying to assist a protester who was violently pushed to the ground by ICE agents.
SEIU 1021 members at California College of the Arts speak out against announced closure
Staff, faculty, and students face uncertain futures
On Tuesday, January 13, California College of the Arts President David Howse announced CCA will close its doors by the end of the ‘26-’27 school year.
For 119 years, CCA’s faculty and staff have shaped the Bay Area’s arts community. With the announcement of this closure, all 304 SEIU Local 1021 adjunct faculty and staff, as well as 110 tenure-track faculty represented by the California Federation of Teachers, face layoffs.
Overpaid CEO Act qualifies for San Francisco’s June ballot
The Stand Up for San Francisco coalition, which SEIU 1021 is a founding partner of, announced last Wednesday, Jan. 21, that it has officially collected the required number of voter signatures to qualify the Overpaid CEO Act for the June 2026 San Francisco ballot. Healthcare workers, caregivers, small business owners, and elected officials gathered at San Francisco General Hospital to mark the milestone and call on voters to protect essential city services threatened by deep federal cuts under the Trump Administration’s budget bill, H.R. 1.
SEIU 1021 members stand united in Solano County for public services and a fair contract
Over two powerful days, SEIU Local 1021 members across Solano County stood shoulder to shoulder in a unified strike demanding what every community deserves: fully funded public services and a fair, equitable contract for the workers who provide them.
SEIU 1021 members celebrate 2025’s victories, kick off new year at unity party
Hundreds of SEIU 1021 members working for the city and county of San Francisco as well as courts, schools, community colleges, and nonprofits based in SF gathered at Public Works nightclub on Friday, January 16, to celebrate 2025’s victories and to kick off 2026 together.
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for Immigrants
Get info, download materials, find trainings & ways to take action here
With the Trump administration escalating threats against immigrants—from increased ICE raids to an attempt, for now blocked indefinitely by a federal judge, to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to undocumented mothers and those on temporary tourist, student, or work visas (unless the father is a citizen or legal permanent resident)—immigrant communities are understandably worried.
The 2024 SEIU Local 1021 Convention was a weekend of unity, inspiration, and action
Over 600 member leaders and staff attended the SEIU 1021 Convention– the most people ever in attendance.
Held Saturday, Sept. 28 & Sunday, Sept. 29
Hundreds pledge to Get- Out-The Vote Locally.
The triennial SEIU Local 1021 Convention, held Saturday, September 28, and Sunday, September 29, was a dynamic celebration of solidarity and collective action. It marked a pivotal moment for hundreds of enthusiastic members.
Spotlight
Take action to STOP LAYOFFS & cuts to public services in San Francisco!
Our rally Wednesday, June 4, was POWERFUL. Over 2,000 City union
members and community members showed up at City Hall at noon to
protest Mayor Lurie’s budget, which would lay off over 100 union
members and eliminate well over 1,000 vacant positions.
We need every single one of those positions to provide
the services San Francisco residents depend on.
2025 SEIU 1021 Executive Board Election Results
We have concluded the ballot count for the SEIU 1021 Executive
Board election. You can find the results of the election
here:
SEIU 1021 2025 Official Election Results
SEIU 1021 Election Results Ballots Cast
Please see the current list of offices and certified candidates
for SEIU 1021’s 2025 local-wide election:
List of Offices and Certified Candidates 2025 (as of December 20, 2024)
Please note the following documents:
Official Clarification #1: PO Box (10-17-24)
Official Clarification #2: SCU (10-30-24)
Official Clarification #3: Candidate Forums (12-20-24)
Official Clarification #4: Winner By Acclamation Races (12-20-24)
Official Clarifications #'s 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, & 13 (1-14-25)
Official Clarification #14: Ballot Count Summary Access for 2016 and 2019 (1-22-25)
For the list of E-Board Candidate Forum emails, please see below:
- 2025 Nomination Petition
- SEIU 1021 Nomination and Election Notice 2025 Members - English
- SEIU 1021 Nomination and Election Notice 2025 Members - Chinese
- SEIU 1021 Nomination and Election Notice 2025 Members - Tagalog
- SEIU 1021 Nomination and Election Notice 2025 Members - Vietnamese
- SEIU 1021 Nomination and Election Notice 2025 Members - Español
- 2025 E-Board Candidate Forum Emails (12-20-24)
- Candidate Forum (1-5-25)
- Candidate Forum (1-14-25)
- Candidate Forum (1-19-25)
- Candidate Forum (2-4-25)
- Candidate Forum (2-6-25)
- Read more
New contracts for over 16,000 City & County of San Francisco workers ratified, eliminating risk of strike
Members of SEIU 1021 working for the City & County in dozens of classifications, including registered nurses and SFMTA parking control officers, voted by large supermajorities to ratify tentative agreements reached over the past two months
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 18, 2024**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201
The threat of a widespread San Francisco city worker strike is officially over: Large supermajorities of members of SEIU 1021, the union representing over 16,000 city workers, have voted to ratify agreements reached with the City and County across three collective bargaining units.
SEIU 1021 Executive Board Statement Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza
Monday, November 6, the SEIU 1021 Executive Board held an urgent meeting after hearing concerns from dozens of members across Northern California about the need for the union to join labor unions and organizations around the world about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Executive Board members discussed the situation at length and decided to issue the following statement as a first step.
San Francisco 2024 Citywide Campaign Kickoff – Jan. 17
Join us at City Hall at noon on Jan. 17 to send a strong message that we are united for a great contract to address the City's biggest needs, including staffing & privatization
As we head into contract negotiations in 2024, we face pessimistic budget projections and corporations panhandling for more tax breaks that would further decimate funding for the vital public services we provide.
We need to join together in a show of force to tell City Hall we’ll fight for what the city and its workers need over corporate greed!
Please join us at noon on Jan. 17, 2024, at City Hall for a huge campaign kickoff rally with our City labor partners and allies.
Coffee tastes better when its unionized: Peet’s Coffee workers hold rally after winning first union vote in North America
After voting fourteen to one to become the first unionized Peet’s Coffee location in the United States, Peet’s Coffee workers, now members of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, held a rally on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in front of the coffeehouse in North Davis. The vote comes after nearly nine months of workers organizing with SEIU Local 1021 and Workers United, an SEIU affiliate organizing workers on the “Starbucks Workers United” campaign.
Fast food workers secure $2.2 million in wage theft violations, vow to continue their fight back against corporate greed
While fast-food corporations like McDonald’s Corporation, Burger King Corporation, Jack in the Box, Inc., and others attempt to roll back the significant gains with the passage of 2022’s Assembly Bill 257 – the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, or the FAST Recovery Act for short, fast-food workers continue the fight for higher wages, safer workspaces, and a union.
