President's Report

2022 was a defining year for our union. SEIU 721 members literally held Southern California together during the COVID-19 pandemic, and emerged from the crisis stronger, more unified and wiser.

It’s time to Fix LA. After working tirelessly keep California’s largest city running, LA’s working families face the multi-pronged crisis of skyrocketing living costs, spiraling homelessness and a declining quality of life that is driving thousands of Angelenos to give up on the state entirely.

Homelessness is at crisis proportions in LA County. According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 30% of all unhoused Americans live in California — almost half of them in Los Angeles County.

2023 will be a defining year for union workers — across the country, around our state and right here in Los Angeles, the Tri-Counties and the Inland Area.

2022 was a defining year for our union. The communities we serve emerged from COVID — in no small part because of the heroic efforts of nurses, health care workers and other public employees across California.

For the past several years, a group calling itself the “Freedom Foundation” has contacted SEIU 721 members during the holidays — encouraging us to “give ourselves a Christmas bonus” by dropping our union membership. But the funding behind all these holiday-themed emails, mailers and uninvited home visits comes from a sinister group funded by right-wing billionaire Grinches who want to steal a lot more than just Christmas.

What a difference a union makes.
With SEIU 721 LA County members set to receive a 5.5% raise in their October 30 paychecks — the biggest raise in county history — and additional raises coming over the next two years, it’s worth remembering the union difference.

In this President’s Report, SEIU 721 members Purple Up to demonstrate our unity, power and pride!

This Labor Day means so much to me. As you may know, I just passed my one-year anniversary as your SEIU Local 721 President.

There’s a short-staffing crisis in California local government. Whether it’s visiting frontline SEIU 721 members across Southern California or talking with our sister SEIU locals around the state, everywhere I go, I hear the same thing: Workers are stretched too thin.