BREAKING NEWS!
This just in:
HEALTH – SEIU 721 Members secured guarantee for fully-paid health and dental! OH YES WE DID!
WAGES – SEIU 721 Members secured a 10.75% salary increase (plus $1,000 bonus) across the board.
WAGES – Additional increases at individual tables! Tens of thousands of members, including some of our lower-paid employees, will receive additional salary increases above the 10.75%.
Union Power at its best!
This is what workers do when we stick together!
Stay tuned for further details. Individual tables are STILL bargaining.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE:
Bargaining is still underway. We are receiving lots of questions – and we are taking each and every question down in order to release an extensive Q&A that will address all questions you have.
Be proud of what you and your unity have accomplished!!!
We want to ensure all information is accurate and final before releasing.
Please be patient as we have various bargaining units still open and still bargaining.
Stay tuned and stay union strong!
Great news!
YAAYEE YAAYEEE
Great job! keep up the good work. You guys are awesome!!!!
Good work you guys. You guys are awesome.
Praise God, thank you fellow brothers and sisters. May the Lord continue to guide you and work on the hearts and minds of all those involved. God bless.
Now this is why we need to stay uninon strong! Without Union and the united county workers the outcome would have been different. Together we are and mighthy! MAY God bless us all!
Ditto all of that.
Thank You Guys for your dedication & hard work ⚒
Union is awesome always looking out fou it’s members!!!
Thank you for being my voice and gaurdian!!! Go SEIU!!!
Way to go! Union strong!
Congratulations!! Thank you! I vote yay!
What did we give away in exchange…?
I hope they did not took something important like a change in retirement benefits…
Last time we sold out our brothers/new workers for a miserable 500.00 dollars.
That’s important to know
Probably not to enforce our MOU liKE ALWAYS! We are overwhelmed, overworked, and sick . Why isn’t anyone discussing our caseloads!that is what matters ! That is the reasons why we are sick and can’t provide 100% customer service.
I agree
And they are giving us more work to do at any change in the county. They don’t even give us any break times during the recertification appointment days along with hundreds of other tasks and still expect us to do everything right now. We all need incentives to keep us going. They give us the this months disaplinary actions taken on county’s employee’s instead of incentives. We have all been going through this for too long. We need appreciation not criticism. We all will need to get in line with our participants at this rate. They need to do our… Read more »
SEIU721 BU311/312
This does nothing to pay for educational expenses, this does nothing to address pay inequities, if you do the math, it’s yet another blow to registered nurses. These opportunities To shift our culture in a significant way only happen once in a life time. I feel obligated and committed to this fight to the end. 10.75 over three years is shit. DPH, DMH, DHS, Sheriff, Oliver view, harbor UCLA, DPSS, and all other in 311/312 bargaining reject 10.75! It’s yet another insult and does NOT address specific requests for safe patient care. We won’t be silenced
Join the discussion…Don’t be greedy now. Nurses in county get paid very well. We don’t want the county to go broke and then all of us will be out of the job.
It’s up to you and/or your union to push to resolve pay inequities. Above says that some tables will get additional increases above the 10.75%. Ask for a compensation study. Get involved.
We need your help!! SEIU721 BU311/312 This does nothing to pay for educational expenses, this does nothing to address pay inequities, if you do the math, it’s yet another blow to registered nurses. These opportunities To shift our culture in a significant way only happen once in a life time. I feel obligated and committed to this fight to the end. 10.75 over three years is shit. DPH, DMH, DHS, Sheriff, Oliver view, harbor UCLA, DPSS, and all other in 311/312 bargaining reject 10.75! It’s yet another insult and does NOT address specific requests for safe patient care. We won’t… Read more »
I hear you union sister. So, this is something that should be discussed in JLM. Find out who your union rep is, and if you have JLM at your site. Start recording quality of case loads, if anyone has been disciplined, or an uneventful situation occurred, because lack of staffing etc. Finding facts is essential to building cases that need addressing to managers, and when we have the info., and addressed it and situation persists till we are blue, we push these things to a higher level, and then you guys exhausted and all push towards better pay, demonstrating that… Read more »
Yup to being sick, looking at percentages there is an unusually high number of workers needing to go on medical leave and/or having medical emergencies at work, and in a rare instance, death on the job.
You must enforce your mou the union gave it to you so utilize it. If they give you more cases than required by mou give them back and speak to your union representative. You are over working yourself.
They are capping flex benefits cash. So the raise Isn’t a significant raise they are moving money from one place flex into salary and calling it 10.75%.
If you are that concern brother I would like to see you side be side with me and other who stayed up all night on the front line, to strategize ideas to get what we deserve.
Please get involved in your JLM at your work site, so we can begin to strategize for our next contract.
Don’t know what you do, but I am sure you can become creative.
Be strong and faithful, remember you are the union too
I was there raising all kinds of hell making certain my NAs and IC didn’t lose there benefits and got a historic a movement. Our teams delivered corroborate grievances from ICU RNs me in the lac usc staffing office of what going’s on on the floor and how behind the scenes administration uses line staff to implement such hardships on our RNs. Compared to our community RNs are not treated in an equitable way. For RNs this isn’t equitable. And we have not closed.
And that is why I no longer work as an NA despite how much I loved it, the pay and use of the services we provide are under paid and overlooked for the most part and its sad that NA’s get the pay that they get especially in a hospital setting.
Because the Flex refund is not a percentage of salary, losing it will disproportionately affect the lower salary classes. We should not allow this. Also, the half-step increase should be front-loaded (effective 10/1/2018) and not put off until the end of the contract. I have been at the highest step since 2008–I do not want to wait another 2.5 years. This is not a “great” contract…far from it.
Yay, thank you! Will an email be sent with the break down of salary increase? How will we receive the $1000 bonus ? And when? Will we be able to see the new allowance for health insurance benefit on 10/01/2018 on the my la county website? Which departments are still bargaining?
The bonus is effective October 1, 2018 (day after tomorrow). First 2% increase is also effective October 1, 2018. But the County will not implement until the Agreement is ratified by SEIU 721 members and appears on a Board of Supervisors agenda. I’m guessing that we will see the bonus and first raise before Thanksgiving, but the first 2% raise will be retroactive to October 1, 2018. Other raises, including a new half-step (2.75%) on the salary schedule, are spread out over the three year term. A breakdown will be provided early next week.
Where to go to check our individual table’s agreements? Like for Eligibility supervisors?
The Eligibility Supervisors have not yet reached a final contract settlement. They will meet again next week. We will eventually produce and publish Tentative Agreement summaries for each bargaining unit.
Thank you so much Bart and thank you SEIU 721. One last question, what about our health insurance allowance?
Negotiations are still going on, within the individual Bargaining Units. More details to come.
What happened to the flex pay?
SEIU721 BU311/312
This does nothing to pay for educational expenses, this does nothing to address pay inequities, if you do the math, it’s yet another blow to registered nurses. These opportunities To shift our culture in a significant way only happen once in a life time. I feel obligated and committed to this fight to the end. 10.75 over three years is shit. DPH, DMH, DHS, Sheriff, Oliver view, harbor UCLA, DPSS, and all other in 311/312 bargaining reject 10.75! It’s yet another insult and does NOT address specific requests for safe patient care. We won’t be silenced
The individual Bargaining Units are still in negotiations. More details are on the way.
I felt empowered when you guys laid into county!!! I will never forget this learning experience. This bargaining is tribal! I discovered HR files are up there with salary and benefits!!! If you want a fight let’s talk about HR files lol great fight to keep haters out of our HR files.
What about those who are at their final step? It sounds like they won’t be receiving annual cost of living increases. Is this true? The only increases that seems to be included in the 10.75% is the 2% 10/1/18 and the step increases over the next 3 years. So will there be annual cost of living increases? Or is the $1000 bonus supposed to take the place of the cost of living increases?
Yup the county got us real good with this one .
SEIU721 BU311/312
This does nothing to pay for educational expenses, this does nothing to address pay inequities, if you do the math, it’s yet another blow to registered nurses. These opportunities To shift our culture in a significant way only happen once in a life time. I feel obligated and committed to this fight to the end. 10.75 over three years is shit. DPH, DMH, DHS, Sheriff, Oliver view, harbor UCLA, DPSS, and all other in 311/312 bargaining reject 10.75! It’s yet another insult and does NOT address specific requests for safe patient care. We won’t be silenced
Congratulations to all our Los Angeles County members and our thanks to the bargaining team members and great staff that supported them! Union Strong
Greats new and victory for our members
Awesome Job!!! Wish I was there
Yes!!
Thank you contract bargainers we so appreciate you all and your service for us members
This is wonderful better then I expected wow
Less then cost of living ?
SEIU721 BU311/312
This does nothing to pay for educational expenses, this does nothing to address pay inequities, if you do the math, it’s yet another blow to registered nurses. These opportunities To shift our culture in a significant way only happen once in a life time. I feel obligated and committed to this fight to the end. 10.75 over three years is shit. DPH, DMH, DHS, Sheriff, Oliver view, harbor UCLA, DPSS, and all other in 311/312 bargaining reject 10.75! It’s yet another insult and does NOT address specific requests for safe patient care. We won’t be silenced
We fought our asses off. It’s very tribal onviiisly non violent but most definitely an open platform for union members to vent, trust our feelings and process and demand our government to empower our patients with well trained well paid workforce. I urge Moreno participation. This NEVER ends!
Wow!!!! Thank You for all of your hard work!!!
Thanks SEIU! This is awesome!
Awesome!!!! Great job. With unity all is possible
I’m so happy!!! Thank you for all your hard work!!
This is awesome! Thanks for bargaining !
Way to go 721
Great Thanks. Local 721
I think I am the lowest paid worker in all of the County. Thank you for fighting for me. Mental Health Advocates are important too!
we can do it together…UITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL
This is why having a Union is extremely important!!! Without SEIU 721 this wouldn’t have been successful!!! There are so many of you to thank, so thank you for all your hard work,’but the ones I know personally worked extremely hard and will need us all again to step up to the plate! So, thank you SEIU fearless leaders Carolyn, Vivien, Karen, Kay, Katarina, and many others along with people that’s took time out of there busy schedules and lives to fight for us with the Union, Markeitha, Deborah, Ramona, and countless others, and the CATs, and people who gave… Read more »
Good job I am proud of the best Union
That’s great. Best contact I’ve ever seen the county give. Great job 721
Thank you For all your hard work United we win.
Go Keenan! Congratulations!
Way to go, SEIU721!
Union members must must stick together do not option out
This is the power of the Union at work
Union members we must be united to protect our jobs our healrh benefits and let our Union fight for us let us stand together
Go Union 721
Praise God!!! This is great news for all workers and working families!!!
Thank you!!!
Thank you SEIU 721! That is fantastic!
Yesssss! Health care is essential and must be affordable
Thank you to all union members and union reps that are fighting hard for everyone . God Bless us all! We need this raise. With today’s economy a lot of workers could barely make ends meet.
Thank you 🙂
Thank you so much. I an fighting Cancer and if I lost my health insurance that would be devastating to me and my family. Thank you so much for all you guys have done, are doing and will continue to do.
Supreme courts voted against unions and now you all can see the importants of paying your dues. Way to go 721, Union strong !!!!!!
Great job! I knew you could do it!
It would be great if you could help us the same way at the City of Santa Clarita.
Thank you SEIU721!
Thank the Lord!!!! My union dues paid off!!! I’m FOREVER a union member.
If you havn’t joined a union. DO IT NOW!!!!
THANK YOU MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF SEIU 721!!!
Great News Bargaining Team!!! You make all of us proud to know you have our best interests at heart! Bless you all
Awesome! Thank you very much for you all hard work. You guys did great jobs for ever. Love you all SEIU local 721❤❤❤
I can’t thank you guys enough!!!!
….YIPPEE…
Thank you sooo much for your hard work to get us secured!!! So grateful
I want to say thank you to everyone that was part of the bargaining! These are great news
Amen
Awesome work guys!!!