Los Angeles County - SEIU Local 721

Meet your LACERA Bargaining Teams for 2021 Contract Negotiations

July 2, 2021

Bargaining for a Successor Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is about to begin. Our current contract will expire on December 31, 2021. SEIU is proud to announce that a Bargaining Team has been chosen. These Read More...

Moving Forward and Continuing to Win

July 2, 2021

Sisters and brothers, I’m honored to announce the selection of Simboa Wright to the office of Vice President of SEIU 721 and Adolfo Granados to the office of Treasurer. Their selection comes after a thorough interview process, and both were approved by a unanimous vote of our union’s Read More...

LA County members confront the Board of Supervisors to demand Heroes Pay for All

June 30, 2021

After all the dedication and sacrifices we – the essential workers of LA County – made during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Supervisors wants to reward us with a slap in the face by adopting a budget with Read More...

Heroes Pay for LA County members? Or a slap in the face?

June 14, 2021

LA County is Offering a One-Time Bonus Heroes Pay? Or a Slap in the Face? On Thursday, June 10, in the sixth week of bargaining, Los Angeles County finally brought some money to the bargaining table. Their so- Read More...

LA County: Tell the Board your story or they’ll tell us we get nothing

June 7, 2021

It's crunch time ... and, across LA County, SEIU 721 members are stepping up to show the Board of Supervisors, the CEO and everyone else that we mean it when we demand Heroes Pay for All. Last week, we started sending testimonials directly to all five members of the Board Read More...

“Not one red cent!” THAT’S what the LA County Board of Supervisors wants to give us!

June 2, 2021

BARGAINING UPDATE After five weeks of bargaining, what exactly is Los Angeles County offering to show appreciation to SEIU 721 members who stepped up during the pandemic, made great personal sacrifices, took on new challenges and risks, continued to provide critical services Read More...

SEIU 721 Mourns the Passing of President Linda Dent

May 31, 2021

The First Woman and First Black President of Los Angeles’ Largest Union Led Transformational Fights for Economic and Racial Justice and the $15 Minimum Wage Linda Dent, a clerk in the Read More...

LA County Supervisors Hear from Our Union: “We Deserve Heroes Pay for All!

May 21, 2021

The LA County Board of Supervisors heard directly from our Union at their most recent meeting on Tuesday – and we reminded them how our essential work has kept LA County operational, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are the safety net ... and we deserve Heroes Pay for All! OUR Read More...

Unity Actions Show LA County Union Power … and We Just Got Started!

May 19, 2021

We've been powering through LA County this week, hosting one Unity Action after another ... ... … flexing our Union muscle to show we’re serious about securing HEROES PAY FOR ALL (and Read More...

LA County – We deserve more than “Thank you for your service” … so let’s get it!

May 13, 2021

Why should we sign up for a Unity Action? Because if we don’t, we risk getting nothing but a “Thank you for your service” from the Board of Supervisors … even though we were the ones Read More...