SEIU Local 521

08/02/2024

Attn: Monterey County SEIU 521 Members and Residents
🔥 We are Turning Up the Pressure on Monterey County Management through our new Campaign Website Launch🔥

Click here for our website: www.montereycountycan.org - which tells the story of the county workforce, our contributions, and the highlights what we’re fighting for as a community - mainly to end the vacancy crisis!

The County of Monterey functions because workers like us are the backbone that makes it run. While at our site, be sure to show your solidarity and easily send a pre-filled digital advocacy letter to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors!
www.montereycountycan.org/takeaction/
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11/27/2023

“This is not just a critique but a call to action,” Riju Krishna, teacher at Opportunity Youth Academy, told San José Spotlight. “The fundamental problem is money is not going where it should. There’s a lack of accountability and transparency, and there’s a fundamental denial of the existence of issues.” Santa Clara County Office of Education

When it comes to the Santa Clara County Office of Education's performance, parents, teachers and residents are giving it a failing grade.

11/27/2023

A report card is out for the Santa Clara County Office of Education… and the grade is not good. KCBS Radio’s Mary Hughes has more.

05/09/2023

10/27/2022

SEIU 521 Momentum Health professionals came out at yesterday's rally and press event to elevate their union voice.
Momentum workers are compelled to fix a broken system for their clients, community and their workplace: wages that don’t keep up with inflation, high cost of living in Santa Clara County and towering workloads are overwhelming the staff at Momentum Health.

Strong union members (many women, parents, and people of color) are uniting at Momentum to send a clear messages to management:

"Our department is supposed to have nine clinicians and we only have five for over 720 clients. My client has been on a waiting list for therapy since February 2022 and currently, there are still 9 people in front of her until she can be seen. My client recognizes she is not able to interview well or hold a job because she has too much trauma to deal with." -Francisco Flores, Community Services Specialist, Momentum for Health

"I am a single mother of a five-year-old daughter, and just to have her on my insurance I pay $1,200 a month out of pocket. I work full-time at Momentum and regularly pick up overtime just to make ends meet. Not having healthcare coverage for my daughter is not an option, but spending $14,400 a year out of pocket means I can't afford to move out of my mom's house and I am scraping pennies together at the end of the month. Momentum must do better so that parents like myself can continue to serve our community." -Jessica Delgado, Case Manager at Momentum for Health

10/27/2022

05/11/2022

✅🚨🗳 Vote-by-mail ballots are headed to your homes this week! Visit our 2022 Election Hub to see our list of endorsements and important voter info. https://www.seiu521.org/2022election

The time for building on the pro-worker victories of the last two years is NOW! Too much is on the line to simply sit the 2022 midterm election out. Anti-worker forces are motivated and organized to take away all the gains you and your co-workers have won. The record turnout of t

05/05/2022

Shaun Kirby's rent, increasing 5-10% a year, will soon price him out of Sacramento, where he enjoys living near his job at the CSU campus. A recent salary study shows CSU Support Staff earn 12% on average below market median. We are calling on Gov. Newsom and the Assembly to approve funding to lift up CSU stagnant wages. Speaker Anthony Rendon . Thank You Toni G. Atkins for your support!
More about our campaign, conducted in partnership with and California State University : www.csueu.org/advocacy