SEIU Local 121RN

06/10/2026

Monterey Park Mayor Pro Tem and City Council Member Henry Lo, and City Council members Thomas Wong and Jose Sanchez joined SEIU 121RN Nurses at Garfield Medical Center on the picket line on Wednesday.

“You help all of our residents stay healthy and so we wanna make sure that you have all of the equipment that you need. We wanna make sure that you are treated fairly and properly compensated,” Sanchez said.
“When we stand together we are stronger and so I am here to support you. I’m here to help you get what you need and I thank you for all that you do every day,” he added.

06/10/2026

Early Wednesday morning Nurses picketed in front of Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park to pressure hospital management to work with them to solve unsafe staffing levels, break relief, and working condition issues during ongoing contract negotiations.

“In 2023, Garfield Nurses went on strike. One of the biggest issues was this exact problem. Break relief. We fought hard. We won language in our contract that we believed would give us dedicated break relief Nurses. Real Nurses coming in to cover us so we could step away, reset, and come back refreshed. It was happening. And then hospital leadership shut it down. They said the charge Nurse handles breaks, and that’s that. Three years later, here we are, standing outside this hospital, fighting the same fight,” said NICU Nurse Maria Elana. “My colleagues in Telemetry, in Med-Surg, in the ICU are stretched to the breaking point. They deserve a hospital that keeps its word. We need dedicated break relief. Not a charge Nurse doing double duty. Not a system that runs on penalties and fear. Real relief. Every unit. Every shift,” she added.
Nurses have raised these concerns repeatedly throughout contract negotiations, but none have led to improvements in the hospital or progress at the bargaining table, they said. Nurses fear that left unresolved; these problems will produce a downward spiral of dwindling staff and worsening patient care.
“What frustrates me most is this. The Nurses at this hospital have been raising these concerns for years. About staffing. About patient safety. About the basic tools we need to do our jobs. And Garfield keeps ignoring us. They focus on the budget and expect us to figure out the rest,” said Labor and Delivery Nurse Rosanna Kou.
GMC nurses were joined by Monterey Park Mayor Pro Tem and City Council Member Henry Lo, and Monterey Park City Council Members Thomas Wong and Jose Sanchez.
“During the deaths of the pandemic, you were there to take care of our community, our patients, and as my colleague has said, more than ever we need to stand with our healthcare workers,” Lo said.
Turning to the hospital, Lo shouted “shame on you Garfield Medical!”

06/10/2026

Nurses at Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park are being asked to do more and more with less time and less resources at a hospital that management runs under a culture of fear. A hospital where nurses work without breaks, which endangers nurses and patients. Management refuses to work with nurses to solve the hospital’s many problems, that’s why Garfield nurses like Andrew Nicoll are going out on picket on Wednesday June 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 am at the hospital.

06/02/2026

“Labor unions need to step up and work with legislatures to protect LGBTQIA+ people in their workplaces. We have to step up and protect ourselves and our community,” said Michelle Horn, PACU RN at Kaiser Permanente Moreno Valley Medical Center.”

Two months ago, Horn helped organize SEIU 121RNs Lavendar Caucus, which shares information and education on LGBTQIA+ issues and helps facilitate communication between the LGBTQIA+ community and the labor movement.

From Stephen Blair’s fight for workers and q***r rights at the National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards in the 1930s, to Harvey Milk and the Teamsters fight against discrimination and union busting against Coors in the 1970s, to Starbucks Workers United fight for respect and visibility, labor unions have always fought for the dignity of all workers.

“Right now my community is under attack, and trans people are facing more political repression and violence than they have in decades. The right of same s*x couples to marry—despite being overwhelmingly popular—may be taken away. I think the labor movement will play an important role in defending our human rights and our civil rights,” Horn said.

The SEIU 121RN Lavendar Caucus, Horn said, is open to all people.

05/25/2026

05/06/2026

Happy !

Nurses ensure that our loved ones are safe and cared for. Theirs is often the first face that a patient sees, and the last to wish them well at the end of their hospital stay. They are our best advocates on our worst days.

For union Nurses, that advocacy goes far beyond the bedside. Our members have won groundbreaking legislation that makes all of us safer when we visit a hospital.

SEIU 121RN members have led the fight to ensure safer staffing. They faced down the corporate hospital lobby to win Senate Bill 596, a new law that tightens enforcement of California’s Nurse to patient ratios and makes it harder for hospitals to violate them. They pressed lawmakers to pass our “Secure Hospitals for All” bill (Assembly Bill 2975), which will require all acute care hospitals to place metal detectors at public entrances, staffed around the clock, so that weapons can’t be brought in to harm staff, patients or visitors.

For more than two decades, SEIU 121RN members have fought for higher standards, better protections, and safer patient care. This week (and always!) we celebrate our Nurses’ resilience, their strength, and the sacrifice they make for all of us.

05/01/2026

Happy ! At SEIU 121RN, we’re proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our union family.

Here in Los Angeles, the energy, solidarity and power is palpable. There is no other way we’d rather spend International Workers’ Day than in the streets with all of you.

We’ll return to our hospitals recharged and ready to fight for patients, and a better healthcare system for all.

03/28/2026

We’re here at with our Union siblings and all working people in LA because We the People will always stand up for each other.

03/07/2026

Taking action together, for our patients, for ourselves.

03/06/2026

"I see the patient — they see the dollar signs."

Citing contract concerns that include maintaining health benefits and accusations of s*xual harassment by physicians that are not being properly addressed, more than 1,000 nurses at Providence Saint Joseph Medical