President's Report

LA City SEIU 721 members are fed up with shortstaffing, unfilled vacancies and city leaders’ empty gestures and broken promises.

In a massive show of force, SEIU 721 City of LA members packed the Los Angeles City Council’s June 16 meeting to deliver a simple message: “We’ve had enough.”

“Union workers in LA fight for a vision of society that uplifts all,” said Green. “Meanwhile, we’re surrounding by symbols of unfathomable wealth, made possible by the exploitation of working people. We’ve got to put an end to this. It’s time for working people and our unions to strike back and exercise our power.”

2022 was a defining year for our union. SEIU 721 members literally held Southern California together during the COVID-19 pandemic, and emerged from the crisis stronger, more unified and wiser.

It’s time to Fix LA. After working tirelessly keep California’s largest city running, LA’s working families face the multi-pronged crisis of skyrocketing living costs, spiraling homelessness and a declining quality of life that is driving thousands of Angelenos to give up on the state entirely.

Homelessness is at crisis proportions in LA County. According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 30% of all unhoused Americans live in California — almost half of them in Los Angeles County.

2023 will be a defining year for union workers — across the country, around our state and right here in Los Angeles, the Tri-Counties and the Inland Area.

2022 was a defining year for our union. The communities we serve emerged from COVID — in no small part because of the heroic efforts of nurses, health care workers and other public employees across California.

For the past several years, a group calling itself the “Freedom Foundation” has contacted SEIU 721 members during the holidays — encouraging us to “give ourselves a Christmas bonus” by dropping our union membership. But the funding behind all these holiday-themed emails, mailers and uninvited home visits comes from a sinister group funded by right-wing billionaire Grinches who want to steal a lot more than just Christmas.