Gary Poe, an outreach coordinator at St. John’s Community Health in Los Angeles, said his facility — where employees are represented by SEIU Local 721 — is one of the few in Southern California that has already boosted its minimum wage to $25 an hour.
The California Gig Workers Union, a statewide gig worker group affiliated with union locals SEIU 721 and SEIU 1021 in Southern California and Northern California, respectively, organized the event and plans to hold rallies next week in downtown Los Angeles as well as outside Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco.
The timetable is delayed two weeks for members of the Service Employees International Union Local 721, which represents maintenance workers and other non-management staff, as the contract’s final approval is scheduled for Monday.
USC shuttle driver and dispatchers who say they’re grossly underpaid voted this week to join SEIU Local 721.
USC shuttle workers voted Thursday to unionize and join Service Employees International Union Local 721, the largest public sector union in Southern California.
USC shuttle drivers and dispatchers who claim they’re grossly underpaid are urging school officials to refrain from anti-union tactics as they prepare to vote on whether to join SEIU Local 721.
“The bill gives fast-food cooks and cashiers the power to raise the industry-wide minimum wage to up to $22/hr,” SEIU said in a statement.
The organizations at the strike, whether it is Fight for $15, SEIU 721, SBWorkers United or California Gig Workers Union, are ready to multiply the strikes and actions to prevent corporations from killing AB 257, another pro-worker law.
Court reporters from Los Angeles Superior Court who belong to the Service Employees International Union, Local 721 rallied downtown Wednesday against forcing litigants to hire their own reporters.
Rosalina Nava, a court reporter in Los Angeles County Superior Court, said the executives’ arguments are red herrings meant to make a move to electronic recording look inevitable.