“We look forward to working with city leaders to continue aggressively identifying any and all cost-saving options that will above all guard the vital services LA City residents count on and protect the workers on the frontlines of those vital services,” SEIU 721 President Bob Schoonover said.
Bob Schoonover, president of SEIU 721, said that with the number of COVID-19 cases changing on a weekly basis, “it is still too soon in this fiscal year to make any drastic decisions.”
Read two “Letters to the Editor” by SEIU 721 members Araceli Contreras and Wilson Munoz — both of Camarillo — defending our union members’ participation in the Pleasant Valley Recreation and Park District election.
The investigation follows an Oct. 6 letter sent to the Board of Supervisors by Bob Schoonover, president of SEIU Local 721, that alleges the McDonald’s located at 1716 Marengo Street was not in compliance with “even the most basic COVID-19 safety precautions and [retaliating] against employees who raised safety concerns.”
Mike Long, a spokesman for Service Employees International Union Local 721, drew a distinction between furloughs demanded by management and unpaid days off volunteered by workers. Furloughs imposed by management are not permitted under the SEIU Local 721’s contract with the city
The contingent – including nurses, janitors, security guards, school employees and fast-food workers — made its way to a McDonald’s on South La Brea Avenue on Monday to admonish the company for taking advantage of California’s “broken property tax law” and to rally support for Proposition 15.
Bob Schoonover, president of one of the city’s major civilian employee unions, SEIU 721, said they oppose the furloughs, which have already been included in the budget.
Julia Wallace, a SEIU Drop the Cops organizer explained: “Cops are not workers, and they are certainly not members of our union. We need to expel them, and we need to be fighting for our lives. As Black people, as Black women, as immigrants, as trans people, queer people, we need to be fighting for our lives and organizing ourselves as the working class.” Wallace is a rank-and-file member of SEIU Local 721.
The furloughs are illegal under labor contracts and will be fought vigorously, said Bob Schoonover, president of SEIU Local 721, a union representing city employees.