Front Page. SEIU 1021 Year in Review, Part 1

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1 From: 1021 NewsWire Subject: Take two steps forward with the 1021 NewsWire - Dec. 23, 2011 Date: December 23, :51:29 AM PST To: Randy Lyman <randy.lyman@seiu1021.org> Reply-To: <seiu1021@me.com> Vol. IV, Issue December 23, 2011 In This Issue: The year behind us on the FRONT PAGE. The month ahead in CALENDAR. Aren't you in the 1021 Network yet? 1021 NewsWire The Live Wire Facebook Twitter YouTube JANUARY Front Page SEIU 1021 Year in Review, Part 1 At the coming 1021 Convention -- Feb is just around the corner - - Local 1021 members will be developing a Two-Year Plan to guide our 55,000 members and staff into the future. To help us prepare for that challenge, the ever-contrarian 1021 NewsWire offers a quick look back at the past. This week and next we'll pull from our headlines and stories to remind ourselves a little bit of where we were and what we did in the past year. And to celebrate the fact that, in a trying year, SEIU 1021 members scored some outstanding victories and stepped forward more actively in the great social justice movements of our time. SEIU 1021 nurse saves kidnapped girl An alert San Francisco nurse identifies a young girl whose face she'd seen on the news, leading to the girl's rescue and her kidnapper's arrest. Second-time Governor Jerry Brown unveils the first budget proposal of his new administration.

2 Second-time Governor Jerry Brown unveils the first budget proposal of his new administration. In Memoriam: Berry Bingham: "The members and staff of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 were saddened to learn this morning of the sudden passing of a member of the local's staff: Berresford "Berry" Bingham. The manner of his passing only heightens our sense of shock and loss: According to news reports, Berry was found dead in his West Oakland home, apparently the victim of a homicide." PPIC poll finds support for Gov. Brown's budget plan: "Most Californians are favorably disposed toward Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to close the state budget deficit with a mixture of spending cuts and taxes, a new Public Policy Institute of California poll has found." Social & Economic Justice Committee holds one-day Health & Wellness Fair. FEBRUARY Counties Industry Council approves $4,500 to help send 8th graders on an educational trip to Washington DC. Lavender Solidarity members meet to develop LGBTQ contract language. SEIU 1021 launches campaign for a balanced state budget. SEIU 1021 workers at the Asian Art Museum save museum from bankruptcy by forcing bank to restructure loan. San Francisco workers speak at Civil Service Commission to defeat false "reform" proposal. proposed cuts to DD services. Feb Regional Center members join caregivers and people with developmental disabilities in a mass rally to protest $534 million in Feb Nationwide Day of Action in Solidarity with the Workers of Wisconsin In Memoriam: Art Grubel The former Local 1280 executive director made SEIU a force in Solano County. Feb Picket & Action at the Oakland Housing Authority SEIU 1021 launches Facebook and Twitter sites. MARCH March 2 - Statewide Day of Action in Defense of Public Education in California March 3 - Wells Fargo, Pay Your Share! Several hundred community activists and SEIU 1021 members set up an in-your-face picket line and rally to highlight Wells' fraudulent foreclosures, tax evasions and anti-worker, anti-immigrant policies. March 4 - Santa Rosa members rally to support Wisconsin workers' collective bargaining rights.

3 As deadline to call a June election nears, SEIU 1021 members lobby state legislators to "let the people decide" in a statewide vote on revenue measures. Oakland Housing Authority members picket board meeting for a contract settlement. In San Joaquin County, more than 100 Head Start staff members and parents march for classroom safety outside the Head Start offices in Stockton. SFUSD wins hard-fought contract: "After nine months without a contract, after their employer blatantly broke the law, after enduring the disrespect and insults of concessionary bargaining, and after commandeering a School Board meeting to complain about it all, SEIU 1021 classified workers in the San Francisco Unified School District won a Tentative Agreement that beat back almost all the district's takeaway attempts." March 16 - Run on the Bank SEIU 1021 & partners march on a Chase Bank branch to demand bank accountability and support for legislation to stop the tide of home foreclosures. 100 Years Ago Today: Historic Triangle fire still ignites labor movement. APRIL April 4 - "We Are One" National Day of Action in Solidarity with Wisconsin Workers April 18 - Nation-wide "Tax Day: Make Them Pay" action April 28 - More than 700 San Joaquin County workers take a unity break to call for a better solution to the county's $38 billion budget shortfall. Also in San Joaquin, more than 500 SEIU 1021 members and parents march around downtown Stockton to oppose Head Start restructuring that would mean taking funding from frontline positions and redirecting it towards administrative costs. SEIU turns 90. MAY Sacramento County Area publishes debut issue of regional newsletter "4 Golden Nuggets." Standing Up for Oakland: SEIU 1021 delegation confronts Goldman Sachs in New York A delegation from SEIU 1021 joins New York City-based labor and community groups for a week of actions, demonstrations, and teach-ins that target big banks in the heart of New York's financial district. May 20 - "Good" news on the state budget. JUNE Local 1021 launches new website at SEIU1021.org.

4 San Francisco Superior Court workers snap into action to block $150 million budget cut that would have eliminated 41 percent of work force. Gov. Brown signs first on-time state budget in living memory (not really, but it felt like it): "The developments over the past week were stunning: Brown's veto, the first in modern California history; then Controller John Chiang's unprecedented decision to not pay legislators, declaring that the budget the Democratic-controlled Legislature approved was not balanced." (Capitol Weekly) "California won't be the same under new budget." (San Francisco Chronicle) Links of the Week "Wisconsin Workers: Hope for the Holidays" A video holiday card from the union workers of Wisconsin. Working America on Daily Kos: "BREAKING: Rick Perry Retires" California Progress Report: "AWOL at the Kvetching" AlterNet (via CA Progress Report): "8 Stories Buried By the Corporate Media That You Need to Know About" Calendar 1021 Calendar Find an SEIU 1021 Office Moon Phases - New, Dec. 24-1st Q, Jan. 1 - Full, Jan. 9-3rd Q, Jan. 16 Photo: [sign in window] The Chinese Restaurant Association of the United States would like to extend our thanks to the Jewish people. We do not completely understand your dietary customs... but we are proud and grateful that your GOD insist you eat our food on Christmas Convention Home SEIU 1021 Member Convention February 11-12, 2012 Airport Hilton Hotel, One Hegenberger Road, Oakland CONVENTION LINKS: Take the 1021 Convention Survey (and be entered to win valuable prizes; see above) Register for the 1021 Convention Convention Events Calendar

5 SEIU 1021 Leadership Bodies Sa 1/14 - Phase 2 Bylaws Governance Sub-committee - 2:30-4:30p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield Sa 1/21 - Phase 2 Bylaws Revision Committee - 9a-1p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield Sa 1/ Executive Board - TBA Committee On Political Education (COPE) Tu 1/3 - Alameda County - 5:30-8p - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland Tu 1/3 - Sonoma County - 6-8p - SEIU 1021, 600 B Street, Santa Rosa We 1/4 - Solano County - 6p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield Tu 1/ COPE - 6p Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San Francisco - Live via videoconference at SEIU 1021 offices in Fairfield, Oakland (Myrtle), San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Stockton and Sacramento; phone conferencing available - RSVP for a location at Education & Training View the complete catalog and register at We 1/11, 1/18, 1/25 - Basic Shop Steward Training - 5:30-8p - SEIU 1021, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Bldg., San Francisco Th 1/19 - Getting Results from Meetings - 5:30-8p - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak Street, Oakland San Francisco All events take place at the SEIU 1021 San Francisco office, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, unless noted otherwise. Mo 1/2-5:30p - SF COPE We 1/4-5:30p - Stewards Council We 1/11-5:30p - SF Industry Council Social & Economic Justice Tu 12/27 - Lavender Solidarity Committee - 6p - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland Oakland - Meeting subject to change; please contact Eileen at (510) to confirm. Th 1/5 - Latino Caucus - 5:30-7:30p - SEIU 1021, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San Francisco Mo 1/16 - AFRAM Solidarity Committee - 6p - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland Mo 1/16 - Disability Caucus - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland

6 Tu 1/17 - Peace & Solidarity Committee - 5:30p - SEIU 1021, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San Francisco Th 1/19 - Social & Economic Justice Committee - 6-8p - SEIU 1021, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San Francisco Tu 1/24 - Lavender Solidarity Committee - 6p - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland Regions & Industries Sa 1/14 - Counties Industry Council 10a-2p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield Sa 1/14 - Schools Industry Council - 10a-2p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield Tu 1/17 - East Bay (Region 4) Area Meeting - 5:30-8p - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland; RSVP for dinner to the Member Resource Center, OUR-1021 Retiree Councils Mo 1/2 - Alameda Co. Retired Employees (ACRE) - 10a-Noon - SEIU 1021, 155 Myrtle St., Oakland Tu 1/ Retiree Council - 10a-1p - SEIU 1021, 155 Myrtle St., Oakland Th 1/5 - Sacramento Valley Retirees Chapter - 10a-12p - SEIU 1021, th Street, 8th floor, Sacramento Th 1/12 - East Bay Retirees Chapter p - Hs. Lordship's Restaurant, 199 Seawall Drive, Berkeley Mo 1/16 - West Bay Retirees p - SEIU 1021, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San Francisco * * * * ADMINISTRIVIA DO NOT REPLY to this ; it is being sent from an account that is not monitored. Send all Calendar announcements, corrections and changes to calendar@seiu1021.org. Send all comments and questions about the NewsWire only to 1021CAN@seiu1021.org. For all worksite issues or other questions, do not contact these addresses. Contact the 1021 Member Resource Center at OUR-1021 or 1021MRC@seiulocals.org. This was sent to: randy.lyman@seiu1021.org