Home: Our Members
Meghan Burkhart
Ultimately, we’re trying to protect Californians: our friends, our families, our neighbors. For me, it’s all tied together.
-Meghan Burkhart
DCA
Eric Alcaraz
“We are a union, but we are part of the community … and the community is us.”
Karen Smith Sayer
Steward, Pelican Bay State Prison
This win should encourage others to stand up and fight against management abuse. If we can win it, they can win it too.
Erin Thuston
Department of Social Services, Sacramento
The retirement issues of young professionals in their 20s and early 30s may seem far off for a board that is developing a system to help people retire in their 60s, but we are California’s future.
Rebecca Celaya
Health Records Center, South Sacramento
This demonstrates how we can achieve real gains working through the Joint Labor Management Committees that Local 1000 bargained for in our contract.
Maria Patterson
Chair, Bargaining Unit 15
This settlement is another example of what workers can accomplish with a contract and aggressive enforcement of its provisions.
Zena Anderson
Night Attendant, California School for the Deaf, Fremont
Our legal victory follows an organizing victory here because for the first time this group of mostly deaf employees is mobilized, and we fought back.
Irene Livingston
EDD Steward, San Jose
We’re all committed to providing help that Californians can rely on, especially those most in need.
Robert Bayze
DHCS, Co-founder of Young DLC, Sacramento
I became a member activist as soon as I started working because I wanted to help others in the community obtain state jobs.
Brenda Ferguson
DMV, Sacramento
It feels good to step up and serve where I can, and I’m proud of our union’s commitment to the community through our Purpose Statement.
Brad Willis
Chair, Bargaining Unit 11
Unit 11 workers don’t have to choose between finishing their education and working for the state. Now they can do both.
Dorrie Steadman
CDCR nurse, Leader in Raise Up San Diego
We built a coalition, and took action to help to lift thousands of low-wage workers closer to a middle class life.