Each year, SEIU 721 and the County of Riverside come together to offer scholarship awards, ranging from $250 to $5,000, to children of SEIU 721 members who are Riverside county employees. Applications are now being accepted.
That’s why Riverside County SEIU 721 members are casting their votes from April 19th to May 16th at worksites throughout the County and at the SEIU Local 721 Inland Region office to escalate the fight to win a contract that Raises Up Riverside County!
The condemnation from the County’s frontline workers and community advocates comes at a time Riverside County is proposing reckless cuts at the bargaining table on the back of public employees and at the cost of cuts in services. The mismanagement of public dollars has inhibited Riverside County from prioritizing funding for the urgent needs in the County.
In response to the increasingly dangerous working conditions that have been continually ignored by Riverside County management, Riverside County SEIU 721 members have begun participating in three self-defense classes this week at worksites across the County to equip members with the skills needed to stay safe on the job.
On March 21st Riverside County members delivered over 3,000 signed petitions to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to highlight how the County is prioritizing sweetheart consulting contracts (watch video) totaling almost $50 million while they propose reckless cuts at bargaining table on the backs of frontline workers.
On January 24th, the SEIU 721 bargaining team filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) against the County for repeatedly withholding critical information needed at the bargaining table to negotiate a contract that Raises Up Riverside County. While we are fighting to raise the standards across the board, the County is hell-bent on a race to the bottom!
The Hemet Clinic workers know all too well that every day the County drags its feet on putting in place real safety protections, is another day the Hemet Clinic staff run the risk of being violently attacked or being killed.
That’s why we’re taking the initiative to learn how to defend and protect ourselves, and our co-workers at the Hemet Clinic!
Now more than ever, it’s critical that we continue flexing our collective strength and continue speaking out to make Riverside County the employer of choice.
Dozens of Behavioral Health Specialists, Clinical Therapists, and other care professionals gave insight into the on-going and troubling number of violent incidents that have taken place on the clinic’s premises. One by one they scribbled on a giant board their solutions to the safety crisis, solutions that ranged from fencing the employee parking to better-trained security on the County’s clinics premises.