California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the fast food bill surrounded by fast food workers at the SEIU Local 721 in Los Angeles, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.
In a statement to The Occidental, the president and executive director of SEIU 721, David Green, acknowledged their support of ROSE.
In the next step of the non-tenure track (NTT) faculty’s effort to unionize, faculty members are seeking out support from the largest community on campus — students.
“Obviously, if it means a pothole not being filled or a tree not being trimmed or even sanitation services, that has a real impact on the residents of los angeles so we’re doing everything we can to avoid that,” said David Green, the President and Executive Director of SEIU Local 721.
The California Court Reporters Association said that a decade ago, “LA Courts, along with courts around the state, fired a large segment of its court reporter workforce, and has now been slow and resistant to replacing these positions.”
The groups have launched a campaign to unionize with SEIU Local 721.
Opponents, like Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez and SEIU Local 721 President and Executive Director David Green, suggested the cuts would reduce city services for residents.
“[Eliminating] up to 2,000 vacant positions within the city isn’t a feasible long-term solution when we’re just years away from the Olympics — a once-in-a-generation event poised to put enormous strain on front-line services across Los Angeles and beyond,” said David Green, SEIU Local 721’s president and executive director.
About 200 Los Angeles County social workers demonstrated in front of county headquarters in downtown L.A. on Wednesday, demanding that their contract be reopened to improve working conditions by reducing their caseloads.
Cerca de 4,000 trabajadores sociales infantiles manejan actualmente mas de 30,000 casos y supervisan mas de 15,000 menores en casas de crianza.