OUR CITY OUR FIGHT It’s time to take a stand to protect our city’s middle class jobs and bring up our city services to the highest levels! City Management is hell-bent on balancing budgets for a generation on the backs of LA City Workers while they burn through our taxpayer … Read More
The election for LA County Sheriff is heating up! On Thursday, September 6th, LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell and his challenger retired LA County Sheriff Lt. Alex Villanueva joined SEIU Local 721 COPE members for an election town hall. COPE Members who work at the various County Jail facilities came out en … Read More
The LA County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) thought we would go out with a whimper and not challenge their wage theft. They were wrong. We rose up and sent a whole slew of emails to LASD and Department of Health Services (DHS) officials. Now we’ve really grabbed their attention. LASD top brass … Read More
When pay discrepancies have arisen at LA County facilities, administrators at those locations have worked to promptly resolve them. That’s not the case with the LA Sheriff’s Department (LASD) on a bonus weekend pay grievance affecting our fellow members in the jails. LASD led us to believe that they would … Read More
In late April, over 200 hundred frontline workers from Twin Towers and Men’s Central Jail filled out your union’s survey to aid the mass grievance investigation. There’s an alarming number of reports of workers being gassed and even physically assaulted, this cannot be the new normal! Now it’s time to come together in a safe space to … Read More
Make your safety concerns heard! In early April in conjunction with CIR-SEIU, UAPD, and numerous AFCSME Locals we filed an unprecedented grievance against LA County to demand an immediate fix to a situation that’s hit rock bottom and endangering our lives by the minute. That’s why we’re having an urgent … Read More
Los Angeles— Less than 24 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ushered in the so-called “Right to Work” era for public sector workers, hundreds of union workers from a cross-section of L.A. unions united at City Hall to denounce the court decision and show their solidarity. The colorful display of … Read More
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its anti-worker decision in the long-awaited Janus v. AFSCME. To the surprise of no one, the Court ruled 5-4 in favor of establishing a national so-called “Right to Work” for public employees, further rigging the system against working families. Today’s decision is the … Read More
On the heels of filing an unprecedented multi-union grievance against LA County over ICHS working conditions, we held a highly successful Safety Check outside of Twin Towers! Hundreds of ICHS frontline workers came out on April 26th to participate in the massive grievance investigation to pinpoint the health and safety … Read More
SUBMIT YOUR TIME CARD CORRECTIONS NOW In case you missed it, your union filed a grievance against ICHS management on November 25, 2017 demanding that they rectify the issues around the inconsistent bonus pay, and WE WON! You can now cash out on back pay dating back to November 2, … Read More