New State Employees
Congrats on your union job! Welcome to your union family!Welcome and congratulations on your new union job! As you begin your journey as a state employee, we wanted to take this opportunity to introduce you to your employee union: Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 and the benefits of being part of the union. Below is an overview of how to get started as a new employee, represented by SEIU Local 1000.
This Union is Our Union
1. Join Us
Benefits of Union Membership
You are part of a community that’s got your back! Here are some of the key benefits of being a union member:
- Power in Numbers: Together we negotiate better pay, protect pensions, and fight for strong health benefits and job security.
- Expert Legal Support: Dealing with a workplace issue? Facing a failure on probation? Our legal team can help protect your rights.
- Career Growth: Access exclusive training and development opportunities to advance your career with the state.
- Exclusive Discounts: Get discounts on travel, theme park admission, and insurance plans for auto, home, pet, and life coverage exclusively for union members.
- Strong Community: Be part of a supportive network of colleagues that share your passion and commitment.
Your SEIU Local 1000 Membership
Unions collectively advocate for better working conditions. SEIU Local 1000 represents 95,000+ state workers like you. We have a long history of fighting for fair wages, reasonable working hours, comprehensive benefits, and safe working conditions.
The first step at a new union job is to join your union! You sign up for membership here. Once you sign up, you will be able to login to the full website with members-only information including: representation resources, tons of member resources and tools, important information about probation and state employment, and opportunities to get active.
If you are trying to sign-up to become a member and you are not able to, it may be that you are not yet showing on the State’s Employment Roster. They submit this roster to our union every month but, unfortunately, they often do not show new employees for anywhere from 1 – 6 months. To ensure you don’t have any delays in union support, resources, or representation, please contact our Member Resource Center at 866.471.SEIU (7348) and request that a union representative connect with you directly.
2. Let's Meet
Our SEIU Local 1000 Contract provides us time to meet and orient you to our union. If you have not had an orientation with our union yet, you can sign up for a union orientation.
We offer virtual union orientations on a rolling basis for employees who have not been provided an orientation by their employer, or who were provided an orientation but did not receive a union orientation.
We are hosting the meetings bi-weekly on every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month from 11:30am-12:30p.m.
Click here to registration link for the 1st Tuesday of the month.
Click here to registration link for the 3rd Tuesday of the month.
3. Learn about our Union!
One of the most common questions new employees ask us is “What is a union?” Our union is how we come together as a group to make things better – whether that’s through bargaining a contract to raise wages for 96,000 people, or coming together with our co-workers to create a policy that makes our workplaces better, or working together with partner organizations to ensure that housing is more affordable in our communities. A union is how we work together to make life better – whether it’s at work, at home, or in our communities.
You can read our Purpose Statement and learn more about us here.
4. Access Member Resources
Be sure to access our most recent member updates on bargaining, representation, member resources, apprenticeship programs, stewardship, and ways to get involved.
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