Our Strike Made Headlines – Now LA County’s Feeling the Heat

Thanks to our solidarity, we’ve already secured movement at the bargaining table — including increased contributions to medical coverage. But instead of negotiating in good faith, County leadership continues to drag their feet, delay progress, and disrespect our union.


County of Ventura 2025 Bargaining Team Election Timeline

Bargaining team nominations are now closed.  Many of you submitted nominations for coworkers or for yourself and now it’s time to confirm nominations and see which bargaining Tables will require elections.  If there are more candidates than seats for a Table, then there will be an election.  Because of the


SEIU Local 721 Members Elect New Executive Board in 2025

The newly elected executive board of SEIU Local 721 is responsible for representing the interests of its members, and manages the Local’s affairs including running dynamic, worker-led campaigns that have secured historic gains for our members and working people across Southern California.Full list of elected member leaders: OFFICERS AT LARGE



We’ve Let the World Know: We’re Going on a ULP Strike on April 28

President David Green speaks at the podium.

Fed up with Los Angeles County management’s repeated law-breaking and failure to bargain in good faith, our union delivered an official 10-Day Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike Notice to the County today and announced our intent to strike during a press conference directly outside our union’s headquarters near downtown LA.


#ICYMI, LA County webinar updates us on ULP Strike basics

David Green Speaking on Webinar

In case you missed it, our union held a successful webinar for all of our LA County members yesterday evening – which is when our contract with LA County expired. During our webinar, we went over several critical points in the lead up to a possible Unfair Labor Practice (ULP)


NOTHING for us and a 0% COLA if LA County management has its way

Have you seen the latest budget report by the LA County Chief Executive Office? It’s full of fancy charts and graphs – and full of excuses. The bottom line is that their way of thanking us, their essential workforce, is to give us NOTHING. They want NO job vacancies filled


2020 SEIU 721 Convention Delegate Election Results

The results are in! SEIU members overwhelmingly approved amending our SEIU Local 721 Bylaws, and elected our 2020 SEIU International Convention delegation. Congratulations to our newly elected 2020 Convention Delegates. These elected members will be representing us at this year’s SEIU International Convention in April: Jessica Castillo, Region 1 Vickie


County of Ventura Bargaining Team is Set!

You sent in your bargaining team nominations and the new team is ready to fight at the bargaining table to lift up Ventura County! Over the next weeks your unity and involvement will be crucial to ensure we win a contract that invests in communities by supporting County of Ventura


Pleasant Valley Board Unanimously Votes NO on TA

The Pleasant Valley Recreation and Park District Board shot down the Tentative Agreement at its last board meeting – the TA that we voted to approve. The most frequent comment from the Board was that they “didn’t understand” why the agreement didn’t include the At Will attack on workers –