Press Releases

A broad coalition of students, academia, and various Los Angeles community groups will erect a Tent City near the University of Southern California (USC) campus’ Trousdale Parkway entrance at this weekend’s “Los Angeles Times-USC Festival of Books.”

RNs Ready to Strike for Patient Safety Get Results with Additional Funding Secured to Begin Putting an End to CA Labor Law Title 22 Patient-to-Nurse Ratio Violations LOS ANGELES, CA—A massive Unfair Labor Practice strike potentially affecting all L.A. County public hospitals has been averted now that Registered Nurses of … Read More

Strike for Patient Safety to Affect 7,000+ Nurses at L.A. County’s Major Public Hospitals and Clinics; At Heart of Strike Is Chronic Retention Crisis in Busiest ERs, Trauma Centers; 5K+ Patients in One Year Leave LAC+USC Without Being Seen as 1K+ Nurse Positions Stay Vacant Despite Ample Funding to Fill … Read More

As Thanksgiving Holiday Approaches, Nurses Authorize Strike with a Resounding 98% Vote in Favor; 7,000+ Nurses Set to Strike for Better Patient Care, Citing Dangerous Violations of Patient-Nurse Ratios and a Chronic Retention Crisis in Busiest ERs and Trauma Centers LOS ANGELES, CA—More than 7,000 Registered Nurses at flagship public … Read More

As Mayor Garcetti Tours the Country Touting His Progressive Bonafides to Voters in Key States, City of L.A. Workers and Residents Take to the Streets to Urge the Mayor to Focus His Efforts Here at Home, Citing His Broken Promise to Create 5,000 Jobs by June 2018, and Worsening Urban … Read More

Workers from All Corners of L.A. County Will Stand United for Quality Public Services, Real Middle-Class Jobs and Respect on the Job as They Remind the Board of Supervisors: ‘We Are the Safety Net’  LOS ANGELES—L.A. County Public Workers will take to the streets this Tuesday morning for a massive … Read More

Citing Mayor’s Own Missed Deadline of June 2018 to Restore Services and Create 5,000 Jobs, Fix L.A. Coalition Highlights the Consequences: Trashed Alleys, Broken Sidewalks, Insufficient Recreational Programming, Unreasonable 311& 911 Wait Times, Aging Infrastructure and Inadequate Homeless Outreach LOS ANGELES—In response to Mayor Eric Garcetti’s quest for the White … Read More

“SEIU Local 721 mourns the loss of veteran, traffic officer and our union brother Gregory Park, who was killed while serving the public. We share the grief of his family and coworkers in this time of unexpected sorrow.   “Park was a dedicated public servant of more than 13 years. … Read More

‪Riverside, CA – SEIU 721 President Bob Schoonover issued the following statement in response to ruling in the Public Employment Relations Board v. County of Riverside hearing. “Today, a Riverside County Superior Court judge affirmed the right of county workers by barring the county from imposing a unilateral ‘last, best … Read More