It’s official. L.A. City Members have emphatically ratified their new 3-year contract with 95% of the votes. Tonight’s vote count puts a bookend to contract negotiations that brought out the fight in SEIU Local 721 members throughout the City, including multiple public actions in Downtown Los Angeles and the Port. So, what … Read More
We made it clear through our citywide worksite actions and our march at L.A. City Hall that we were prepared to do whatever it takes to win a fair contract, and it worked! After hard-fought contract negotiations, we beat back City management’s proposed takeaways to reach a Tentative Agreement on … Read More
In case you missed it, this past December we received the GREAT NEWS that LASD settled our grievance and will pay out weekend bonus back pay owed from the period of 4/30/14 to 4/30/17 to EVERY WORKER THAT IS ENTITLED! Please start organizing your time corrections now so that you will be able to … Read More
When pay discrepancies with our weekend bonus pay came up — we rose up to get what’s ours! Hundreds of you within the LA Sheriff’s Department (LASD) facilities took action in support of the grievance against LASD on bonus weekend pay. LASD wanted to initially only pay twenty-four people, but you sent e-mails in masse … Read More
Over one thousand L.A. City members and community allies marched this morning from Los Angeles City Hall through the Civic Center to deliver the message to Mayor Eric Garcetti: Quit Campaigning and Fix LA! For months, the SEIU Local 721 Bargaining Team and the Coalition of City Unions have been … Read More
OUR CITY OUR FIGHT It’s time to take a stand to protect our city’s middle class jobs and bring up our city services to the highest levels! City Management is hell-bent on balancing budgets for a generation on the backs of LA City Workers while they burn through our taxpayer … Read More
The election for LA County Sheriff is heating up! On Thursday, September 6th, LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell and his challenger retired LA County Sheriff Lt. Alex Villanueva joined SEIU Local 721 COPE members for an election town hall. COPE Members who work at the various County Jail facilities came out en … Read More
The LA County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) thought we would go out with a whimper and not challenge their wage theft. They were wrong. We rose up and sent a whole slew of emails to LASD and Department of Health Services (DHS) officials. Now we’ve really grabbed their attention. LASD top brass … Read More
When pay discrepancies have arisen at LA County facilities, administrators at those locations have worked to promptly resolve them. That’s not the case with the LA Sheriff’s Department (LASD) on a bonus weekend pay grievance affecting our fellow members in the jails. LASD led us to believe that they would … Read More
In late April, over 200 hundred frontline workers from Twin Towers and Men’s Central Jail filled out your union’s survey to aid the mass grievance investigation. There’s an alarming number of reports of workers being gassed and even physically assaulted, this cannot be the new normal! Now it’s time to come together in a safe space to … Read More