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UPDATE: LA County Mandatory Vaccines and Frequent Testing For Healthcare Workers

August 25, 2021

As COVID-19 cases surge due to the spread of the deadly Delta variant, SEIU 721 strongly encourages all members to protect themselves and their families by getting vaccinated, masking up in shared spaces, and continuing Read More...

SEIU 721 Members are Saving the L.A. City LAHSA Contract

August 23, 2021

SEIU 721 members are well on their way to saving the LAHSA contract with the City of L.A. That’s right. What began as self-promoting opinion pieces and council motions by a select group of L.A. Councilmembers for the City to withdraw from LAHSA, snowballed into an alarming commitment by the Read More...

Our Position on the LA City Vaccination Mandate

August 23, 2021

On August the 18th the Los Angeles City Council voted 13-0 to adopt a City ordinance that establishes a Mandatory Vaccination Policy for all City of Los Angeles employees. The ordinance requires City employees to be Read More...

SEIU 721 Bargaining Committee Set to Negotiate Vaccine Mandate Policy

August 20, 2021

L.A. County Mandatory Vaccine Policy: SEIU 721 Bargaining Committee Set to Negotiate On Thursday, August 19, SEIU 721’s Bargaining Policy Committee (BPC) met with CEO representatives to review a draft of the Read More...

Adolfo Granados Named SEIU 721 Treasurer: “This is a member-driven union — the members run it”

August 13, 2021

“It’s all about the members.” That’s the mantra of Adolfo Granados, who started his SEIU 721 activism as a Shop Steward while employed as an Eligibility Worker at the LA County Department of Public Social Services and recently became our union’s new Treasurer Read More...

Simboa Wright Named SEIU 721 Vice President – “I believe unions can be a force for positive change.”

August 12, 2021

SEIU members have been a part of Simboa Wright’s life literally from birth. Wright was delivered by SEIU healthcare workers at Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital. When he was a baby, SEIU social workers guided him through the foster system to his adopted family. Now, after Read More...