Tri-Counties - SEIU Local 721

County of Ventura Day After Thanksgiving – WE Won That

November 23, 2020

County of Ventura This year we've faced a host of unprecedented challenges from the pandemic public health crisis to financial turmoil at city, county and state levels. But because we stayed union strong throughout Read More...

Schools and Communities First – We will continue forward after Prop 15’s very narrow loss

November 13, 2020

It's never easy when something we've fought so long and hard for doesn't come to pass but the very narrow loss of Proposition 15 after a week of ballot counting is far from the end of the story. We knew what we were up against: When you tell multi-billion dollar corporations that you're Read More...

Ventura Superior Courts Sideletter Tentative Agreement Reached – Time to Vote

November 10, 2020

The Coronavirus public health crisis has taken its toll on city, county and state funding. Our frontline workers are now experiencing furloughs and layoffs in other jurisdictions. SEIU 721 is working Read More...

Union Workers, Essential Workers Delivered Biden-Harris Victory

November 7, 2020

Make no mistake about it, working people won this election. Union workers showed up to the polls in record numbers to choose unity, resilience and love for America. Our nation’s healing begins today. We are Read More...

EVERY VOTE COUNTS and we WILL count every vote!

November 4, 2020

The presidential election isn’t over. Votes are still being counted, many of them mail-in ballots – and they are trending in support of the Biden-Harris 2020 campaign. It looks like we are on track to win Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania when we count all the votes Read More...

VCERA Update: Unions and VCERA Agree to Continue to Meet on the Flex Credit

October 30, 2020

SEIU 721 Regional Director Danny Carrillo and SEIU 721's counsel participated in the last VCERA meeting on October 12 to discuss the Alameda Decision and the impact to SEIU legacy VCERA participants. SEIU continues to work with our County of Ventura Labor allies including the Read More...

Congratulations! Xiaoli Zhang-King Elected to SBCERS Pension Board

October 8, 2020

SBCERS members voted to elect our SEIU 721 member-endorsed candidate, Xiaoli Zhang-King, as the General Member of the Board of Retirement. Xiaoli is a Senior Financial Systems Analyst Read More...

Your Vote Is Your Power — 3 Days of Action

September 23, 2020

This year the annual International Latino Caucus Latino Heritage Celebration will very different. With a worldwide pandemic raging on in the middle of the biggest election season in modern history — the number one priority has to be winning at the polls. We simply cannot have it any Read More...

City of Oxnard Members – Stepping Up to Keep the City Solvent

September 23, 2020

City of Oxnard As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the health of our community and on city finances, SEIU 721 members are doing their best to help the city and to avoid layoffs. In our latest Read More...

Statement by SEIU 721 President Bob Schoonover on the Death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

September 18, 2020

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing is a devastating loss for her family and a crushing loss for our nation. She was a little lady with a big voice on the highest court in our land, one that Read More...