LA County members: ULP Strike Authorization voting is underway, and your elected Bargaining Policy Committee strongly recommends a Yes vote.
Despite reaching tentative agreement with LA County in 2021, the County has repeatedly refused to honor our contract. There are many discrepancies between our tentative agreement and LA County’s unilateral interpretation of our contract that they have posted online.
Additionally, LA County has broken the law in other areas.
Just a few examples:
- Management is contracting out of SEIU 721 members’ work in multiple departments across LA County.
- Management is illegally surveilling of SEIU 721 members who are engaging in union activity.
- Management refuses to adhere to a wide array of provisions agreed upon in our 2022 contract, including items related to discipline and union rights at work.
These are not small matters. When we negotiate at the bargaining table for a new contract, the items related to workplace discipline, safety, union rights and contracting out jobs are just as important to us as the items related to salaries, benefits and retirement.
And when SEIU 721 members ratify a new contract, we expect that ALL OF IT will be honored.
Apparently, LA County management doesn’t agree. Even though a contract is legally binding, LA County management thinks they can pick and choose when they get to follow the law. And they think we’ll just take whatever they dish out to us … indefinitely.
THEY ARE WRONG.
We don’t have time to waste listening to meaningless excuses from LA County management. We don’t have time to waste waiting for the Board of Supervisors to get serious with county executives about honoring our union contract.
The only thing we have time for is direct action NOW.
Our union has filed Unfair Labor Practice charges against LA County for their refusal to honor our union contract.
Now, it’s time for us to take a ULP strike authorization vote – and your elected Bargaining Policy Committee recommends that we VOTE YES.