MOT Bargaining Update: Dec. 9, 2025

Dec 9, 2025 | Bargaining Unit 17 Updates, Bargaining Unit 20 Updates

SEIU Local 1000 met with the state on December 8, 2025, and, like last month, the state was ill-prepared and didn’t have a counterproposal or anything tangible to offer our union. The state also cancelled our next meeting, which was scheduled for Wednesday, December...

Latest Update on Mandatory Overtime Bargaining

Nov 19, 2025 | Bargaining News, Bargaining Unit 17 Updates, Bargaining Unit 20 Updates

As part of our “Don’t Let CalHR Silence Us” campaign, we want to update you on one of the most urgent examples of CalHR’s interference happening right now: Mandatory Overtime (MOT). For weeks, we’ve been calling out how CalHR is restricting union rights. They are...

Highlights from Unit 20 tentative agreement

Aug 11, 2023 | Post

Early Saturday morning, the SEIU Local 1000 bargaining team reached an overall Tentative Agreement with the State. If ratified, the contract would significantly raise the wage floor for tens of thousands of state workers. It represents the largest three-year contract...

Tentative agreements add transparency, accountability, and a path to improvement

Aug 11, 2023 | Uncategorized

One week after hearing from the State that they had “no interest” in bargaining over mandatory overtime (MOT), our team pushed back, and after a marathon 17-hour bargaining session, won three big tentative agreements: fair scheduling, better protection of days off,...

Mandatory Overtime (MOT) Side Table Summary 8.1.23. State negotiators signal MOT is a preferred staffing tool, reject improvements, and disrespect medical staff

Aug 1, 2023 | Uncategorized

Today, State negotiators told us in the clearest possible terms that they don’t care about the health care professionals we represent; that the personal safety and work/life balance of the LVNs, CNAs, and RNs isn’t a priority, nor is the quality of the patient care...