“Calling city workers heroes one day and then taking money out of their household budgets the next day is not right,” [SEIU 721 President Bob Schoonover] said, and he called on the city to exhaust its other options “before taking money out of the pockets of LA’s working families.”
Bob Schoonover, president of Service Employees International Union Local 721, called the furloughs “illegal” under existing salary agreements and irresponsible in the middle of a pandemic. “The last thing L.A. city needs is more working families struggling to keep a roof over their heads or food on their table,” he said.
A memorial commemorating the more than 5,700 people who have died of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County stood on the steps of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown L.A. on Monday.
Thousands of people who have been lost to COVID-19 were remembered Monday with a vigil in downtown Los Angeles.
For years, SEIU 721 members like myself have been sounding the alarm that the KPMG experiment was a waste of time that undermined its own stated goals. — David Warpness, La Quinta
Along with the CCED, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, LA Voice, LA Tenants Union, SEIU 721, Eviction Defense Network and the Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action also took part in the demonstration.
A virtual delegation of SEIU 721 members traveled from SoCal to Arizona with a message for U.S. Senator Martha McSally: Vote YES on the HEROES Act! Hundreds of SEIU 721 members amplified their voices by submitting videos of themselves telling Sen. McSally about their work and why securing federal funding … Read More
Bob Schoonover, president of SEIU California and SEIU Local 721, said in a statement that the proposal would borrow “from future generations without demanding that today’s billionaires and powerful corporations step up and contribute.”
But a key state employees’ union criticized the budget “chicanery.”
La moción fue apoyada por una coalición de afiliados laborales como UFCW 770, SEIU 721 y centros de trabajadores como Clean Carwash, KiWA y muchos otros.