Search: News & Events

Earlier this week, Gov. Newsom signed the bill that made our agreement with the State a law — and a contract! After four-plus months of bargaining, and with the support of thousands of our represented employees taking action, we have a deal, but … what’s the deal?

The highlights of what we won include a 10% general salary increase, more than 300 special wage and salary adjustments, reductions in our pre-retirement funding, plus a health care stipend.

SEIU Local 1000 Job Stewards are on the front lines for our Union; they organize their fellow members and are our members’ first line of defense when their contract rights are violated. If you’d like to join the ranks of job stewards, please fill out an application for the upcoming Leadership Apprentice Program for Stewards (LAPS) training.

Training will begin on October 14, 2023, and we invite you to apply to become a Job Steward. 

While the focus of SEIU Local 1000 has shifted to our 2023 Contract Campaign, we must acknowledge California is again at the center of horrific news of workplace violence. We’ll face many challenges this year — a $25 billion budget gap, a State administration that speaks of protecting workers but overlooks its own workers in compensation and income equality — but we all must stand together to support our union brothers and sisters who have experienced these devastating events. Across the state, there are 23 Central Labor Councils (CLCs) in California.

As part of the overall closure process for the California City Correctional Facility (CAC), California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) is offering impacted employees in select classifications the ability to affirmatively participate in the mitigation phase related to the closure. This is the phase where the department identifies employees who can be transferred into vacant positions in other locations of the area impacted by the layoff — in this case, Kern County.

After a months-long bargaining and organizing effort to win a contract that respects us, protects us, and pays us, the two-week ratification voting period ends on Friday, September 8, 2023. The process of counting the members’ votes will happen on Saturday, September 9.

The results of the ratification vote will be emailed and posted to our website this weekend.

Sorting and counting of the ballots begins at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 9, at Local 1000 headquarters in our one-story building at 1325 S Street in Sacramento.

When one of our Unit 15 custodians was reprimanded about the state of his route by a supervisor in the open, and in front of other people, it violated our contract’s language that these types of meetings should be held in private.

Our custodian had been off for the previous two days and was just returning to work. What’s more, it wasn’t even this custodian’s supervisor, but from another area in the building. This supervisor chose not to talk to the custodian’s direct supervisor, even when asked.

There’s a crucial intersection between Hispanic American culture and the labor movement, and it’s an important component of our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15).

Today, and throughout history, American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America have made myriad contributions to the advancement of the labor movement. What’s more, those past achievements have made all unions stronger.