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April 22nd was Earth Day! Read SEIU International’s Resolution Supporting the Green New Deal
https://d3jpbvtfqku4tu.cloudfront.net/press/SEIU-Resolution-on-the-Green-New-Deal.pdf?mtime=20190606142106 Adopted by the Service Employees International Union Executive Board, June 6, 2019 Whereas, there is an urgent need to address the climate change crisis, as the United Nations IPCC reportrecently declared that we only have 12 years to accomplish the massive shifts necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change; Whereas, the Green…
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PIH Good Samaritan Nurses Take Strike Vote
On April 19th and 20th, 2023, PIH Good Samaritan nurses took a strike vote while SEIU United Healthcare Workers West members rallied for fair wages and dignity on the job. Pay Us What We’re Worth “Starting wages are 16 to 17 an hour at PIH Good Samaritan. McDonalds pays $19. When you have to keep…
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Chinatown’s Hillside Villa Tenants Association Camps Out to Stop Evictions
Read about the Tenant Weekend Encampment at the Mayor’s Mansion In candidate Karen Bass’s much publicized debate with billionaire recent-Republican Rick Caruso on September 22, 2022, she pledged to extend the eviction moratorium, and attacked Rick Caruso’s plan to round up the homeless as criminalizing poverty. But with the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency,…
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Vote in the San Fernando Valley 6th District Special Election for LA City Council
Candidates Run to Replace Disgraced Councilwoman Nury Martinez’ for Racist Tirade Caught on Tape After being caught on tape using racist insults against African Americans, as well as Jews, Armenians, Oaxacans, and political opponents, President Joe Biden and now mayor Karen Bass pushed Los Angeles city council president Nury Martinez to resign. Early voting in…
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Service Workers Say: Black, Brown, Asian, White: United We Stand
Fire LAPD Police Chief Michael Moore Tell Karen Bass chief of staff Chris Thompson to reconsider LAPD reappointment pushed through behind closed doors. Call the Mayor’s Office Today: (213) 978-0600 Public safety workers should not bear the blame. It is the leadership that needs to change. Stand with the Thousands of Nurses and Doctors who…
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Members of Congress Oppose Biden’s Immigrant Asylum Restrictions
According to a January 26, news article, “Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to the White House expressing their “great concern” that the Biden administration is walking back on its promise to restore migrants’ access to asylum. In the letter, they also condemned the administration’s expansion of a controversial policy that immediately turns away…
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SEIU Local 99 LAUSD School Employees Vote to Authorize Strike
According to the LA Times, “30,000 workers represented by Local 99 of Service Employees International Union include bus drivers, campus security aides and gardeners — all essential to operations in the nation’s second-largest school system.” School Workers Demand Living Wage “The union is seeking a 30% wage increase plus a $2-per-hour “equity wage adjustment” for…
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USC Grad Workers Win Their Union, Join UAW
Less than two months after a six-week strike of almost 50,000 University of California graduate students, three thousand University of Southern California graduate students have unionized. When union workers fight, all workers want to join in. When one union wins, all workers win. Thirty-six shuttle drivers at USC also recently filed for a union election…
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You Have the Right to Join a Union
Workers’ Rights Guaranteed by U.S. Constitution and Federal Law The 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of association, including the right to form labor unions. This right has been codified in the National Labor Relations Act. Corporations that bully their workers to prevent them from participating in union activity are…
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Pass the COVID Healthcare Worker OSHA Standard
From Final Steps of OSHA’s Proposed Permanent COVID-19 Standard for Healthcare, National Law Review, Friday, January 6, 2023: COVID Healthcare Worker Health and Safety Standards Proposed “[The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)]… implemented an emergency temporary standard for medical facilities, which mandated those sites follow requirements around personal protective equipment, ventilation, physical barriers and…
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