Chief of Staff Gilda Valdez Clarifies SEIU Local 721’s Use of Official Union Communication Channels to Inform Our Over 95,000 Members of Any and All Official Union Endorsements Los Angeles, CA—SEIU Local 721 Chief of Staff Gilda Valdez made the following statement today in response to reports that a … Read More
Riverside County Employees Threatened by Management with ‘Imprisonment for Up to One Year’ for Trying to Protect Themselves after Two-Day Strike Highlighting Chronic Safety Breaches and Labor Law Violations
With Pepper Spray In-Hand, Workers to Head Back to Work Following a Two-Day Strike That Saw Thousands of Riverside County Workers Walk Off the Job to Protest the County’s Labor Law Violations and Chronic Safety Breaches With A Whopping 19 Labor Law Violations Still Stacked Up Against Riverside County, Union Representing Striking Workers Urges … Read More
Riverside County Workers On Day Two of Strike Joined by California State Treasurer John Chiang and NextGen American Founder Tom Steyer; Workers Take Demands to End Labor Law Violations Directly to Riverside County Board of Supervisors Riverside County Charged with a Whopping 19 Labor Law Violations and Demands of Transparency Amidst the Use of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars for Sweetheart Consulting Contracts; Frontline Public Service … Read More
Gubernatorial Candidates Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa to Join Riverside County Employees On Strike; Demands Include a Halt to Chronic Safety Breaches and an End to Labor Law Violations
Riverside County Employees to Go On Strike for Safety; Demands Include a Halt to Chronic Safety Breaches and an End to Labor Law Violations SEIU 721 Represented Riverside County Employees Including Health Care Providers, Social Workers, Correctional Officers, Mental Health Care Workers, Engineers, and Other Frontline Public Service Providers Walk Off the Job; Riverside County on the Hook … Read More
Hundreds of Riverside County Employees to Descend on Board of Supervisors to Sound the Alarm About Rampant ER Safety Breaches at County’s Flagship Hospital; Employee Picketing Over County’s Whopping 19 Labor Law Violations Enters Its 4th Week
SEIU Local 721 Riverside County Workers Decisively Authorize Escalation Up to and Including Strike Strike Authorization Approved with 98% of Voting Members and the Full Backing of the SEIU Local 721 Executive Board RIVERSIDE, CA – A 5-week long escalation vote by Riverside County employees represented by SEIU … Read More
L.A. City Councilmembers to Join Fix L.A. Coalition to Renew City’s Commitment to Restore Services and Create 5,000 New Front-Line Service Jobs as City Heads into Budget Season Fix L.A. Accounts for Just 210 New Full-Time Hires One Year After Mayor Promised 5,000 New Jobs; Coalition Warns State of … Read More
On Tax Day, Riverside County Employees and Residents Condemn the County’s Potential $119 Million Waste of Taxpayer Dollars; Demand Riverside County CEO Jay Orr Renegotiate Toxic Bank Deal Toxic Swap with Wells Fargo Could Drain County Coffers Up to $69.4 Million in Excessive Fees over Life of Deal; KPMG … Read More