President's Report

Riverside County workers rally to protect public services and jobs from privatization

SEIU 721 LA City workers’ 1-day strike captured national headlines and the support of the White House. SEIU 721 members won historic minimum wage increases for fast-food workers and healthcare workers. Our union fought fights — big and small — winning strong contracts across Southern California, and stood up to … Read More

Hundreds of lobby visits and several massive Sacramento actions organized by SEIU 721 and its sister locals across the state produced historic victories for healthcare, clinic and fast food workers in this legislative session. The result: raises for more than a million Californians.

LA City SEIU 721 members are fed up with shortstaffing, unfilled vacancies and city leaders’ empty gestures and broken promises.

In a massive show of force, SEIU 721 City of LA members packed the Los Angeles City Council’s June 16 meeting to deliver a simple message: “We’ve had enough.”

“Union workers in LA fight for a vision of society that uplifts all,” said Green. “Meanwhile, we’re surrounding by symbols of unfathomable wealth, made possible by the exploitation of working people. We’ve got to put an end to this. It’s time for working people and our unions to strike back and exercise our power.”

2022 was a defining year for our union. SEIU 721 members literally held Southern California together during the COVID-19 pandemic, and emerged from the crisis stronger, more unified and wiser.

It’s time to Fix LA. After working tirelessly keep California’s largest city running, LA’s working families face the multi-pronged crisis of skyrocketing living costs, spiraling homelessness and a declining quality of life that is driving thousands of Angelenos to give up on the state entirely.

Homelessness is at crisis proportions in LA County. According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 30% of all unhoused Americans live in California — almost half of them in Los Angeles County.