SEIU Local 1021

Is Larkin Street Youth Services using public funds to fight a union organizing drive?

05.16.13 - 12:03 pm | Steven T. Jones |

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Larkin Street Youth Services does great and important social work with homeless youth in San Francisco, for which it receives generous support from city taxpayers, as well as federal grants. That’s why its employees and some prominent local officials are questioning the organization’s aggressive, deceptive, and anti-union resistance to the request by a majority of its 88 employees to be represented by Service Employees International Union Local 1021.Read more »

SF declares Pay Equity Day as it lowers salaries for women's jobs

04.09.13 - 4:08 pm | Avi Asher-Schapiro |

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The Board of Supervisors today declared April 9 Pay Equity Day in San Francisco, in recognition of the persistent national gap between male and female financial compensation. But with the city locked in a dispute with SEIU Local 1021 over pay cuts to jobs dominated by women and workers of color, the day took on special local significance. Read more »

Union divisions

SEIU Local 1021 fights with employers — and its own employees — over salary and benefit cuts

02.12.13 - 5:40 pm | Steven T. Jones |

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Service Employees International Union Local 1021 strenuously resists the wage and benefit givebacks regularly demanded in recent years by employers, including the city of San Francisco, which is now trying to slash the salaries for more than 40 city job classifications.

At the same time, Local 1021 is asking its own employees for benefit givebacks during new contract negotiations, a move that their own union is blasting as hypocritical.Read more »