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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.
Facing unfair labor practices and an unsafe workplace, SEIU 1021 members at Alameda Health System vote to strike
The vote passed nearly unanimously: 99.5%
Alameda County, California – After months of bargaining over a new contract and numerous unfair labor practices from Alameda Health System (AHS) management, SEIU 1021 members have voted overwhelmingly to authorize their bargaining team to call a strike. 99.5 percent voted to strike.
SFDPH Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement to Address Staffing Crisis
The agreement, which must be ratified by a majority of members of the nurses’ union, will add new positions and mechanisms to reduce contracting out and to reduce reliance on temporary, part-time nurses
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 21, 2024**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201; Ella Sogomonian, ella.sogomonian@seiu1021.org, (415) 686-5075
SEIU 1021 Santa Clara All Lecturers Union (SALU) Ratify Historic First Contract With 97.8% Approval
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
Contact: Chelsea Fink, Chelsea.fink@seiu1021.org, (510) 435-8282
SANTA CLARA, CA—On Thursday, May 16th, after 16 months of negotiations, SEIU Local 1021 members working as adjunct professors and lecturers for Santa Clara University (SCU) voted to approve their first union contract.
Nurses at San Francisco’s Public Hospitals & Community Clinics Vote by 99.5% to Authorize a Strike
SF Department of Public Health management has refused to take meaningful action in contract negotiations to address the chronic, severe staffing crisis undermining patient care, leaving nurses to take desperate measures to advocate for their patients
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 17, 2024**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201; Ella Sogomonian, ella.sogomonian@seiu1021.org, (415) 686-5075
San Francisco Department of Public Health Nurses to Vote Next Week to Authorize Strike
RNs at San Francisco’s public hospitals and community clinics say they need more than praise or pizza parties for National Nurses Week–they need safe staffing.
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201; Ella Sogomonian, ella.sogomonian@seiu1021.org, (415) 686-5075
As National Nurses Week winds down, registered nurses and other frontline staff gathered outside Laguna Honda Hospital on Thursday afternoon. Even as they celebrated the critical role nurses and staff played in keeping the hospital open and moving it toward recertification with CMS, speakers struck a somber note – and a warning to SFDPH.
Nurses picket Laguna Honda Hospital, sound alarm that admitting new patients at current staffing levels would be dangerous; warn of impending strike
RNs at San Francisco’s public hospitals and community clinics say they need more than praise or pizza parties for National Nurses Week–they need safe staffing.
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR MAY 9**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201; Ella Sogomonian, ella.sogomonian@seiu1021.org, (415) 686-5075
“Target on our backs”: SFMTA workers rally against unsafe working conditions
Parking control officers found out about the alleged upcoming “crackdown” announced through the news media – and they worry that it sets them up for increased risk of assault by disgruntled motorists.
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR THURS. APRIL 25**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201; Ella Sogomonian, ella.sogomonian@seiu1021.org, (415) 686-5075
70% of SFDPH Nurses Report Physical Assault on the Job; Storm Health Commission Meeting to Warn of Possible Strike
As contract negotiations with SF Department of Public Health drag on and management stalls, nurses want to alert the public to the dangers of the staffing crisis - and to the possibility of a looming strike
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUES. 4/23**
Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201; Ella Sogomonian, ella.sogomonian@seiu1021.org, (415) 686-5075
Supermajority of Planned Parenthood Northern California Workers Unionize with SEIU Local 1021
Workers stand united in the face of anti-union intimidation tactics
Contact: Chelsea Fink, Chelsea.Fink@seiu1021.org, (510) 435-8282
SF Public Library Workers Rally to Demand Security Measures
As City’s drug and homelessness crises spill into public libraries, librarians fight to keep facilities safe for all
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUES. 4/9**
Contacts: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510) 710-0201; Luke Thibault, lthibault@ifpte21.org, (760) 534-9958
Smashed teeth, broken ribs, and punches to the face are a daily occurrence for Alameda Health System healthcare workers
Workers at Alameda’s Fairmont and John George Psychiatric Hospitals join a chorus of Bay Area healthcare workers protesting assaults on the job as federal and California reports confirm healthcare leads all other professions for workplace violence.
Smashed teeth, broken ribs, and punches to the face are a daily occurrence for Alameda Health System healthcare workers.
Workers at Alameda County’s Fairmont and John George Psychiatric Hospitals join a chorus of Bay Area healthcare workers protesting assaults on the job as federal and California reports confirm healthcare leads all other professions for workplace violence.
They’ll Rally TODAY at Noon at 2060 Fairmont Dr, San Leandro
Max Capacity Reached at ‘Strike School,’ Where SF City Workers Consider Striking as a Last Resort to Protect Public Services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Carlos Rivera, carlos.rivera@seiu1021.org, 415-378-2376
Max Capacity Reached at ‘Strike School,’ Where SF City Workers Consider Striking as a Last Resort to Protect Public Services
Marin Housing Authority Refuses to Bargain Union Contract in Good Faith, Making the Choice to Leave Residents Living in Dangerous, Demoralizing Conditions
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
Contact: Ian Lee, ian.lee@seiu1021.org, (510) 384-7165
SF City Workers Consider Striking as a Last Resort to Protect Public Services, Will Discuss Next Steps at ‘Strike School’
On March 13, San Francisco city workers will learn what it means to strike and the laws that protect their right to strike at Strike School.
MEDIA ADVISORY for Wednesday, March 13, 5:15 PM
Press Contacts:
Juliana Park, jpark@ifpte21.org, (408) 921-2187
Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510)
710-0201
Marin Housing Authority Employees to Strike to Protect County’s Most Vulnerable
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR MONDAY 3/11**
Contact: Ian Lee, ian.lee@seiu1021.org, (510) 384-7165
Today, March 8, Marin Housing Authority (MHA) employees represented by SEIU Local 1021 announced they will begin an unfair labor practice strike on Monday, March 11 — with the potential to continue the strike into further days. This strike comes after MHA employees voted unanimously to authorize their bargaining team to call a strike.
Statement from SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford on passage of San Francisco Proposition F
Media contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, (510) 710-0201, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org
“SEIU Local 1021 filed an Unfair Practice Charge today. In the Unfair Practice Charge, we asked the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to void Proposition F on the ground that the City failed to provide the union prior notice or opportunity to bargain over the impacts of it before placing it on the ballot. We will also file a Request to Expedite, which asks PERB to put this case to the front of its queue due to the urgency of the matter.
Over 1000 San Francisco city workers rally and release new report to shed light on wasteful contracting out
The report, titled ‘Selling Out San Francisco,’ examines six contractors and reveals several issues with how the City contracts out essential services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contacts:
Luke Thibault, lthibault@ifpte21.org, (760) 534-9958
Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510)
710-0201
(San Francisco, CA) — On Tuesday, February 27, over one thousand San Francisco city workers represented by IFPTE Local 21, SEIU Local 1021, and other City unions rallied outside of 49 South Van Ness Avenue to draw attention to the wasteful contracting out.
Hundreds More San Francisco City Workers to Rally for City Administration to Stop Wasteful Contracting Out
After thousands of city workers have rallied at City Hall and SF General Hospital, hundreds more plan to rally at major worksite to tell the City: “Invest in public services, not private greed!”
MEDIA ADVISORY for Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 12PM
Press Contacts:
Luke Thibault, lthibault@ifpte21.org, (760) 534-9958
Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org, (510)
710-0201
Hundreds of San Francisco City Workers to Rally for Staffing, Against Outsourcing at SF General Hospital
Amidst the City’s rejection of their latest demands to stop wasteful contracting out, city workers come together to say: “We don’t want to go on strike, but all options are on the table.”
MEDIA ADVISORY for Friday, February 16, 2024, 12PM
Press Contacts:
Jennie Smith-Camejo, jennie.smith-camejo@seiu1021.org,
(510) 710-0201
Juliana Park, jpark@ifpte21.org, (408) 921-2187
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