Los Angeles County - SEIU Local 721

721 Health Professionals Reconvene with LA County’s DHS Chief to Solve the Bullying Crisis

May 5, 2016

As a testament to his commitment and genuine interest in making immediate strides in creating a bully free DHS, Dr. Katz sent out a department wide memo on May 2nd condemning bullying behavior and asking DHS Read More...

Nominate yourself or one of your coworkers for a 2016 Gala Award!

May 5, 2016

Click here to download a 2016 Nursing Appreciation Gala Nominations Form, so you can nominate yourself, and one or more of your coworkers, for an award. Please note that you must answer all of the questions on the nomination form for it to be considered. You must complete one form for each Read More...

May Day 2016

May 1, 2016

Our members are proud to join our Fight For $15 workers, and families from St John's Well Child and Clinica Romero at today's May Day march in Downtown Los Angeles at 12 noon on the corner of 11th and Figueroa Read More...

Anti-Bullying Follow Up with DHS Chief Dr. Katz! Tomorrow!

April 26, 2016

This is the big week! For weeks we've been breaking the silence throughout LA County DHS facilities to build up even more momentum going into our Wednesday, April 27thmeeting with Dr. Mitch Katz. Watch and Read More...

Social Workers Are Mobilizing Solidarity ActionsTo Get to the Root of the Problem!

April 19, 2016

Last week hundreds of Children Social Workers rallied at the Hall of Administration and delivered a powerful message to the Board of Supervisors and DCFS Director Philip Browning to get to the root of the problem and fix the child safety crisis. We delivered that message loud Read More...

Last Remaining Unity Breaks at DHS Facilities!

April 19, 2016

We are one week away from our highly anticipated follow up April 27th meeting with DHS Chief Dr. Mitch Katz and the Unity Breaks just keep getting bigger and bigger! Just last week Read More...

2016 SEIU International Convention Delegate Election Results

April 19, 2016

ELECTED DELEGATES Region 1 (Members who work for the County of Los Angeles in bargaining units 221, 222, 311, 312, 341, 342, 722, 729 (Health)) Carol Carroll Christine Romero Saundra Wooten Yolanda Roybal Frank Guy Region 2 (Members who work for the County of Los Angeles in Read More...

Women’s Caucus Brunch

April 18, 2016

On Saturday, April 16, the Women's Caucus hosted a special brunch to honor the leadership and contributions of cis and trans women in SEIU LocaL 721 and our communities. The dozens of women and men Read More...

We Did it Again on the Streets of LA!

April 14, 2016

We did it again! Thousands of SEIU union members, Fast Food Workers, and community allies poured into the streets to march in celebration of our recent $15/hr. minimum wage victory, and to let the Read More...