Riverside County Employees to Go On Strike for Safety; Demands Include a Halt to Chronic Safety Breaches and an End to Labor Law Violations SEIU 721 Represented Riverside County Employees Including Health Care Providers, Social Workers, Correctional Officers, Mental Health Care Workers, Engineers, and Other Frontline Public Service Providers Walk Off the Job; Riverside County on the Hook … Read More
Hundreds of Riverside County Employees to Descend on Board of Supervisors to Sound the Alarm About Rampant ER Safety Breaches at County’s Flagship Hospital; Employee Picketing Over County’s Whopping 19 Labor Law Violations Enters Its 4th Week
SEIU Local 721 Riverside County Workers Decisively Authorize Escalation Up to and Including Strike Strike Authorization Approved with 98% of Voting Members and the Full Backing of the SEIU Local 721 Executive Board RIVERSIDE, CA – A 5-week long escalation vote by Riverside County employees represented by SEIU … Read More
L.A. City Councilmembers to Join Fix L.A. Coalition to Renew City’s Commitment to Restore Services and Create 5,000 New Front-Line Service Jobs as City Heads into Budget Season Fix L.A. Accounts for Just 210 New Full-Time Hires One Year After Mayor Promised 5,000 New Jobs; Coalition Warns State of … Read More
On Tax Day, Riverside County Employees and Residents Condemn the County’s Potential $119 Million Waste of Taxpayer Dollars; Demand Riverside County CEO Jay Orr Renegotiate Toxic Bank Deal Toxic Swap with Wells Fargo Could Drain County Coffers Up to $69.4 Million in Excessive Fees over Life of Deal; KPMG … Read More
Violent Attack on Nurse Leads Riverside County Employees to Host 3 Days of Self-Defense Classes as Management Ignores Increasingly Dangerous Conditions Safety Breaches Rampant Throughout County Facilities; Official Grievance by Correctional Facility Nurses Describes Many in ‘Fear of a Violent Attack That May Lead to Death at Work’ … Read More
SEIU Local 721 to Co-Host ‘Yard Sale for Healthcare!’ with Rep. Steve Knight at District Office in Palmdale $20 Billion Needed to Save Healthcare for 5 Million Californians and Keep 63,000 Jobs across Greater L.A. Area Palmdale, CA—In a bold display of accountability, Rep. Steve Knight will join … Read More
Harbor Regional Center Frontline Case Workers Demand Management Put Care of Special Needs Patients First Management Blocking Disbursement of $1.8 Million Designated to Strengthen Frontline Services Hurts Harbor Area Residents with Special Needs and Developmental Disabilities Torrance, CA—Workers on the front lines of patient care at the Harbor … Read More