Master Table Update: June 4, 2026
June 4, 2026 The fight for our next contract is underway. What happens at Master Table bargaining will impact the nearly 100,000 state workers across California represented by SEIU Local 1000. Here's what you need to know: for months, we've heard excuses about why...
Confronting Toxic Behavior in the Workplace
Our member, Jim Lane, a job steward at CalOES, was putting up union flyers one morning when he discovered a few hours later that someone had torn them down. Later that day, as Jim was returning to his office suite with a coworker, he encountered an individual holding...
Unit 15 Bargaining Update: June 4, 2026
Thursday, June 4, 2026 This week brought real momentum at the table. Your bargaining team is pushing hard and delivering meaningful improvements that impact your day-to-day work. Here are the highlights...Major Win: Article 13.9.15 Letters of Instruction and Work...
Supporting API Candidates
As we close out Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month and head into this critical primary election season, I want to remind all of us why our voices matter now more than ever. This country was built by working families, immigrants, and communities from every...
Unit 3 Bargaining Update – Thursday, May 28, 2026
Unit 3's Bargaining Team, representing our Professional Educators and Librarians, met again with the State on Tuesday, May 26, and Wednesday, May 27, to resume unit-specific bargaining negotiations for our 2026 Contract. “We had productive, robust...
Bargaining Update: May 28 Report
Bargaining Unit 17, representing Registered Nurses across state facilities and departments, met with the State in subsequent sessions to continue unit-specific negotiations for the 2026 Contract. In the recent sessions with the State, the negotiating team worked...
Unit 21 Bargaining Update – Thursday, May 28, 2026
Refreshed from a meaningful Memorial Day holiday, Bargaining Unit 21, the unit representing our Educational Consultants, Child Development Consultants, Librarians, Archivists, and Specialists, met with the State on the morning of Wednesday, May 27, to resume...
Unit 21 Bargaining Update – Thursday, May 21, 2026
Bargaining Unit 21, the unit representing our Educational Consultants, Child Development Consultants, Librarians, Archivists, and Specialists, met with the State on Monday, May 18, and again on Wednesday, May 20, to continue unit-specific...
Bargaining Update: May 28 Report
We want to provide the latest update from ongoing bargaining discussions and share where negotiations currently stand. Your BU 20 bargaining team met with the State across two recent bargaining sessions. Below is a summary of key updates from the sessions: Tentative...
Unit 14 Bargaining Update – May 28, 2026
As bargaining discussions continue ramping up, our Unit 14 Bargaining Team spent this week continuing to defend important workplace protections while also pushing to move key compensation proposals forward for Unit 14 members. Some of the key issues discussed this...