May 16, 2024 | Bargaining Unit 3 Updates
The Local 1000 contract expires on July 1, and the entire union is mobilizing, gathering resources and building member power. We begin negotiating with the state in April, so our 63-member bargaining team is in place and deep in preparations, training and strategizing...
May 16, 2024 | Bargaining Unit 3 Updates
Our 2015 legislative agenda—a yearlong effort to make politics matter for our members and all Californians—was capped this week when Gov. Brown signed the Local 1000-supported Senate Bill 343 into law. Titled “CDCR Librarians and Inmate Community College Incentives,”...
Aug 22, 2023 | Bargaining Unit 3 Updates
Highlights from Unit 3 Tentative Agreement Early Saturday morning, the SEIU Local 1000 bargaining team reached an overall Tentative Agreement with the State. If ratified, the contract would significantly raise the wage floor for tens of thousands of state workers. It...
Jul 18, 2023 | Bargaining Unit 3 Updates
Our Unit 3 bargaining team continues to work collaboratively with the State to advance the interests of those Professional Educators and Librarians we represent. And, collaboration is a central theme to our negotiations: our proposals are crafted to foster a better...
Jan 25, 2023 | Bargaining Unit 3 Updates
Bargaining Unit 3 members of SEIU Local 1000 met with State representatives twice in the month of December 2022 to confer on the proposed 2023-2024 Academic Calendar for the teachers in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Office of...
Aug 1, 2022 | Bargaining Unit 3 Updates
On Thursday, July 14, 2022, SEIU Local 1000 met with the OCE to discuss both the Expectations Memo and the Laptop Program. We brought up several concerns and asked about the historical background and intent of the Expectations Letter. We expressed our frustration with...
