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Homelessness: It could easily happen to you

By Laura Roberts-Newman Perhaps I was in a serious state of denial but even after two nights of sleeping in a hedge on Sunset Blvd. it still hadn’t truly sank in. When a man came up to me holding out a piece of paper and saying, “Here’s a list of places that help homeless people,” I Read More...

LA Olympics 2028: Going for the Gold means Securing Union Jobs

By Simboa Wright I was six years old when the Olympics last came to Los Angeles. I was living in South LA with my adoptive family. I was the kind of kid that Mayor Eric Garcetti and the LA 2028 Bid Committee talk about when they talk about the potential of the games to uplift Read More...

LABOR DAY: Birthed in blood, the battle continues

This Labor Day, we are coming together to celebrate our past and all the Labor movement has provided, as well as consider our future and how all that we’ve fought for and won is being threatened by those behind the so-called Right to Work attack. Starting today and for the rest Read More...

Ready To Strike: Court Sides With SEIU 721

ULP Strike
Despite increasingly desperate attempts by Riverside County to silence our voices, the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) reaffirmed Friday that the overwhelming majority of SEIU 721 members Read More...

Supporting Riverside Strikers

What's Going On In Riverside? For more than a year we’ve tried to negotiate in good-faith with the County of Riverside but they have consistently stayed on their low-road, breaking labor law after labor law! To date, we have filed 19 unfair practice charges against the County detailing its bad Read More...

SEIU Hurricane Harvey Relief

Harvey Relief
Our sisters and brothers in SEIU Texas, the Workers United Southwest Regional Joint Board, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers-32BJ/ SEIU and SEIU Local 1000 are among the Read More...