Posts tagged Service Employees International Union 1021
‘We can shut down the city’: Lurie’s budget cuts spark a showdown with labor
May 19, 2026 // Mayor Daniel Lurie may be setting the stage for a once-in-a-generation showdown with San Francisco’s public-sector labor unions. Faced with a $643 million deficit and the threat of hundreds of millions more in federal cuts, Lurie is slashing city jobs and squeezing public services — moves that are fueling anger among the unions he’ll soon face across the bargaining table.
CALIFORNIA: Four county unions set 2-day strike starting Tuesday
January 8, 2026 // Joining SEIU 1021, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers 21 and International Union Operating Engineers, Stationary Engineers 39 in the "protective strike" is the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, which represents physicians and dentists employed by the county. SEIU 1021, IFPTE 21 and IUOE 39 have participated in a number of public rallies, and have spoken frequently at board meetings. It was the first time the physician and dentist group have been mentioned.
State axes SF rules outlawing public employee strikes
July 28, 2023 // The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) on July 24 returned a resounding decision against the city and in favor of the Service Employees International Union 1021 and International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers Local 21. This ruling affirms — and expands — a decision handed down last year by an administrative law judge, and appealed to the PERB panel. That state panel on Monday found that the charter provisions enacted following chaotic 1970s-era public employee walkouts, and subsequently modified by voters over the course of the ensuing decades, to be wholly incompatible with California law. While the state panel does not have the power to rescind portions of the San Francisco City Charter, it can — and, now has — declared significant swaths to be “void and unenforceable.”