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SEIU Statement on Terrorist Attack on Israel and Crisis in Gaza
WASHINGTON, DC (October 17, 2023) —Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement today in response to the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza:
“SEIU believes that all Israelis and Palestinians deserve safety, freedom from violence, and the opportunity to thrive. Our union includes many who have family members, Israeli and Palestinian, who have been impacted by the recent violence. We stand against antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism and hate in all its forms around the world.”
SEIU Local 1000 Reaches Historic Tentative Contract Agreement with State
MEDIA CONTACT:
Brian Nash, bnash@seiu1000.org, 312.968.1068
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SACRAMENTO, CA (August 20, 2023) — After over four months of negotiations, the SEIU Local 1000 bargaining team has reached an overall tentative agreement (TA) with the State of California. If ratified, the contract would significantly raise the wage floor for tens of thousands of state workers and represents the biggest three-year contract in Local 1000 history.
The TA includes the following benefits:
SEIU LOCAL 1000 TO STATE: “30% WAGE INCREASE OVER THREE YEARS”
State Employees Call for California Legislators to “Respect Us, Protect Us, and Pay Us” as Contract Bargaining Talks Begin
MEDIA CONTACT:
Brian Nash, bnash@seiu1000.org,
916-554-1238
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SACRAMENTO, CA (April 20, 2023) – Members of SEIU Local 1000, the state’s largest public employee union representing more than 96,000 state workers, kicked off contract bargaining by calling for a 30% wage increase over three years (12% on 7/1/2023; 9% on 7/1/2024; and 9% on 7/1/2025) along with workplace and benefit protections.
SEIU Local 1000 Holding Capitol Rally on 8.27 to Stand Up Against Contract
Violations and the Closure of the Lassen County Correctional Center
SACRAMENTO, CA (August 23, 2021) – This Friday, August 27, on the west lawn of the State Capitol, the represented employees of SEIU Local 1000 will stand strong against the Governor’s efforts to ignore and violate their hard-earned contract rights.
At issue is California Governor Gavin Newsom’s late-July unilateral mandate for vaccinations or biweekly COVID testing for all state employees—a change in working conditions that can’t happen without a meet-and-confer with union representatives to negotiate over the impacts of such a change.
SEIU Local 1000 President Hits the Ground Running in First 90 Days in Office
Richard Louis Brown fights to protect represented employee rights against attack
SACRAMENTO, CA (September 28, 2021) — Since taking office on June 30, 2021, SEIU Local 1000 President Richard Louis Brown has spent his first 90 days tirelessly meeting with represented employees about the 10-point plan that enabled his victory and organizing against an imminent threat to California unions authored by Southern California venture capitalist billionaire, Tim Draper.
SEIU Local 1000 President Richard Louis Responds to Illegal, Improper, and Out of Order” Board Meeting
SACRAMENTO, CA (October 19, 2021) – SEIU Local 1000 President Richard Louis Brown denounced a weekend meeting attended by 34 of the union’s 65 board members, some virtually, at the California Democratic Party Headquarters in Sacramento as “illegal, improper, and out of order.”
SEIU Local 1000 Board of Directors Approve Independent Hearing Officer’s Recommendations to Remove Richard Louis Brown from Union Presidency
SACRAMENTO (January 7, 2023) – The Board of Directors of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 voted today to ratify an independent hearing officer’s recommendation to remove Richard Louis Brown as the union’s president for the remainder of his term, which ends in 2024. They also formally reprimanded him for his misconduct, removed him from the office of Union steward, and banned him from holding the office of Union steward until December 31, 2024. The discipline removes Brown from his position on the Board of Directors.
SEIU Members Make Key Endorsements:
Re-elect Tony Thurmond as Schools Superintendent, Keep Rob Bonta as Attorney General
Sacramento, CA (June 24, 2021) — The 700,000 member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California today announced two endorsements in the 2022 primary election for statewide offices. Members of SEIU local unions in California come together with one voice to make endorsements for state offices; SEIU members have come together to decide they will work to re-elect Tony Thurmond as Superintendent of Public Instruction and to elect Attorney General Rob Bonta to another, full term.
SEIU Local 1000 suspends Richard Louis Brown from Office of President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Richard Louis Brown Suspended from Office of President at SEIU Local 1000
SEIU Local 1000 Speaks Out Against Los Angeles City Leadership Failure
MEDIA CONTACT:
Brian Nash, bnash@seiu1000.org,
916-554-1238
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SACRAMENTO, CA (October 10, 2022) — The leadership and members of SEIU Local 1000 were left stunned to learn via recently released audio of the horrific words spoken by Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez and other LA political and labor leaders.