Only 15% of the drivers polled have applied for the stipend, months after the ballot measure became law, according to a survey released Thursday and commissioned by SEIU 721.
“SEIU members have been warning for years that California wasn’t investing enough in public health and that skimping on these crucial services would leave communities of color most vulnerable. After the last year’s devastation, there is no question that a strong public health workforce makes a difference when lives are on the line,” said Bob Schoonover, President of SEIU California and Executive Director of SEIU Local 721.
Decenas de trabajadores de la salud del Watts Healthcare Center, en el sur centro de Los Ángeles, celebraron el triunfo que obtuvieron para los miembros afiliados al Sindicato Internacional de Empleados de Servicios (SEIU) Local 721.
“We showed today that there is power in our union and in our solidarity as working people. We are enormously grateful that our brothers and sisters from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, the Mobile Workers Alliance, SEIU 721 and ILWU Local 13 joined us today to support port truck drivers on strike to demand their union and their basic rights as employees.”
Terri Thompson, an ER and Trauma nurse, L.A. County + USC Hospital shares that “There were times when I came home and I cried; there were times when I cried on my way home … I want people to know that we do the best we can with what we have.”
As a Los Angeles resident, an L.A. County worker and an SEIU Local 721 member, I am appalled that public resources have been used to build fences, close a public park and criminalize the unhoused community and activists at Echo Park Lake, instead of using public resources to immediately build permanent, public housing with supportive services based on what unhoused residents actually want.
Hoy se cumplen 50 días desde que Joe Bide asumió la presidencia del país, por lo que líderes comunitarios e inmigrantes realizaron una caravana con varias peticiones al mandatario.
Felipe Cáceres, organizador de la manifestación y del sindicato SEIU 721, dijo que el presidente Biden ha hecho muy buen trabajo en sus primeros 50 días en apoyo a los inmigrantes.
La iniciativa es liderada por SEIU Local 721 y quienes deseen hacer parte de ella pueden hacerlo donando mascarillas, pañales, toallas, ropa interior y medicinas de venta libre.
Brotherhood, along with local unions SEIU-UHW, SEIU-2015, SEIU-721 and Education Workers United, brought together hundreds of community volunteers in order to safely provide these resources in Brotherhood’s Grab & Go drive-thru event.