In response to draconian anti-immigrant measures being enacted nationwide by the Trump Administration, over 400 SEIU Local 721 members joined community activists and concerned families at last night’s Oxnard City Council meeting to demand that authorities make Oxnard a “Safe City” for all people living there.
Join us on Tues., Aug. 30 when the Santa Ana Chapter of SEIU Local 721 interviews candidates for the Santa Ana City Council and School Board! Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and Q&A begins at 6:15 p.m.
This is OUR CHANCE to ask questions directly to all candidates – and to learn about their agenda for our Santa Ana community! After the Q&A, we’ll vote and make official candidate endorsements. Don’t miss it!
Ballots are counted, and the new SEIU 721 City of Riverside General, and Refuse Unit bargaining team was announced at the first general membership meeting of the year, Tuesday, Jan. 19. The transition of chapter leadership also took place. Enrique Barboza was installed as the new chapter chair, and members feted outgoing chapter president Frank Corral.
This year SEIU 721 City of Riverside members wanted to do something different to commemorate Labor Day, so they reached out to City management with the idea to show department heads, City Council members and executive staff exactly how members provide vital services everyday.
LA City Council Votes to Raise the Minimum Wage Delivering a Historic Win for Working Families and LA’s Local Economy
The Fix LA coalition–with the backing of SEIU 721 members and LA City Traffic Officers–blanketed the City Hall area Thursday to feed parking meters and place faux tickets on cars, then traveled to Bunker Hill deliver a giant parking violation to Bank of New York Mellon, which takes in $5 million a year in taxpayer money as a result of a bad bank deal.
Their message: Get back taxpayer money from Wall Street so we can use it to restore city services such as street repair, removal of abandoned cars, alleyway clean-up, and traffic control.
Today SEIU 721 and our partners in the Fix LA coalition scored a huge victory: the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-0 Wednesday to hold big banks accountable and bring millions of dollars back to our streets instead of Wall Street! The measure, sponsored by Councilmembers Paul Koretz, Gil Cedillo … Read More
Currently, several large cities in California are facing political and legal challenges to the way they conduct city council elections.