President's Report

Want proof that the workers in SEIU 721 are heroes? Most Americans have never faced a generation-defining crisis — Meanwhile SEIU members are tackling three of them head-on.

Working people in America are at a crossroads. The federal
response to COVID-19 has been a national shame. When the
pandemic first hit, the powers that be put frontline workers’ lives at
risk with insufficient PPE, delayed testing and a bungled response.

We’re 13 weeks into the worst crisis our country has faced in modern times. More than 100,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, the National Guard has been called out in 23 states and more than 40 cities are under mandatory dusk-until-dawn curfews in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by … Read More

Public workers literally are holding our society together, often risking their own health and safety to keep cities and counties running. While big corporations collect billions in cash bailouts, public workers across Southern California are on the front lines, often without adequate protection.

Thousands of SEIU 721 members — nurses, health care workers, Children’s Social Workers, DPSS workers, sanitation workers and countless others — are on the job, holding our society together.

Working families depend on good public schools, quality health care and safe neighborhoods.

On the heels of our massive Unions for All action at LAX, SEIU 721 helped host SEIU’s three-day Unions for All Presidential Summit in Los Angeles.

It’s time for Unions For All. As we go to press, SEIU 721 is gearing up to welcome our brothers and sisters from across the country to the Unions for All Summit in Los Angeles.

The historic 1,000-mile caravan of Uber and Lyft drivers from Los Angeles to Delano, the birthplace of the United Farm Workers, to Sacramento is a powerful demonstration of why we need Unions For All in America.

On July 1, LA County residents got a raise. Los Angeles County increased the minimum wage to $14.25 an hour — the third in a series of four scheduled increases that will raise the minimum wage in one of the nation’s largest counties to $15 by 2020.