The Santa Paula City Council voted to approve a contract extension and vacation buybacks.
What Happened?
After months of negotiating last year and after multiple trips to City Council meetings to present a case for why members should have the option to do vacation buybacks the Council finally voted to institute the buybacks.
The SEIU Local 721 Bargaining Committee and Negotiators fought in 2013 to honor our veterans in Ventura County. We are proud to have won November 11 as an official county holiday.
SEIU 721 members in Ventura County initiated a meeting with the Ventura County Health Care Agency to review the County’s plan to keep workers and the community safe in light of the recent news that a second U.S. healthcare worker has contracted Ebola.
Many of the COPE endorsed candidates qualified for the General Election on November 4th.
A Ventura County Superior Court judge, Kent Kellegrew, issued a final ruling to take the pension-killing measure off the November ballot. The judge ruled that if the measure was against state law and if it was allowed to stay on the ballot it would result in a waste of taxpayer money because it could not be legally enacted.
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on June 17 to put the pension-killing initiative on the November ballot, after County Counsel, Leroy Smith found the initiative to be illegal.
I went to work for the Ventura County court system in 1970. I planned to work for 25 years, thinking I could eventually have a good retirement.
SEIU Local 721 and Tri-Counties Regional Center (TCRC) teamed up to sponsor TCRC members for the 2nd Annual Aut2Run event in Camarillo on Sunday, April 6. Aut2Run is a charity 5K, 10K, 15K and Fun run charity race organized by the Autism Society of Ventura County.