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Know Your Rights: Holiday Leaves
Your SEIU Local 1000 Union contract contains hundreds of articles governing your hard-earned rights, including wages, benefits, and working conditions. This overview explains how our 96,000 represented state workers are entitled to 11 observed holidays and how you’re...
MEMBER EDUCATIONAL MINI SEMINARS
Handouts FOR AUTHENTICATED USERS Welcome to MEMS and The History of Unions#1 HistoryOfLaborTimeline.docx.pdf#2 ThankUnions.pdf #3 SEIUUnionBenefits.pdf#4 Local1000BenefitHandout.pdf#5 Local1000PurposeStatement.pdf
Stewards (MOU) Training Session
We hope this email finds you well. We are excited to inform you about the upcoming Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) training sessions, which are a required step for all stewards in fulfilling their training requirements and ensuring the successful implementation of our new contract.
Stewards Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Training SessionsRegister by October 9, 2023
We hope this email finds you well. We are excited to inform you about the upcoming Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) training sessions, which are a required step for all stewards in fulfilling their training requirements and ensuring the successful implementation...
Apprenticeship program update: First cybersecurity cohort graduates
Our groundbreaking Apprenticeship program has lifted another group of SEIU Local 1000 members on a path to career improvement, this time, in the Information Technology’s Cybersecurity discipline. 12 apprentices, from nine different state departments, began the...
Sweeping changes in Local 1000 leadership structure promise a stronger union
This week, we announced that our SEIU Local 1000 Board of Directors has voted to make some bold and important changes in our governance structure. It’s a revolutionary step for Local 1000, one that will allow us to more effectively serve the 96,000 state workers we...
What’s in our new contract? 100% paid public transit commute costs!
If you’re one of the represented employees of SEIU Local 1000 who rely on public transit to get to work, your commute can now be free! Our contract has hundreds of sections that govern our wages, benefits, and working conditions, and section 12.4 – Commute Program –...
Union Update: September 29, 2023
We won a contract that respects us, protects us, and pays us!
After more than four months of intensive negotiations, with support from thousands of Local 1000-represented workers, we won the largest contract in our union’s history. Members really made the difference, and they’re the ones that helped bring this contract home....