May 16, 2024 | Bargaining Unit 17 Updates
Bargaining Unit 17 will meet with CalHR in mid-September regarding the recruitment and retention issues in the Health Facility Evaluator (HFEN) classification. Our contract article 5.17.17 affords BU 17 the opportunity to discuss recruitment and retention of six...
May 16, 2024 | Bargaining Unit 17 Updates
Bargaining Unit 17’s first Nursing and Upward Mobility Joint Labor Management Committee (JLMC) report was sent to the Director of the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR). A committee of five representatives from SEIU Local 1000 and five from the State of...
May 16, 2024 | Bargaining Unit 17 Updates
Update as of April 6, 2020 We know that you are in a fluid emergency situation, and we thank you for the hard work and sacrifices you make on a daily basis to care for California. We are continuing to advocate for you with the Department about issues that are changing...
Aug 30, 2023 | Bargaining Unit 17 Updates
Highlights from Unit 17 Tentative Agreement Early Saturday morning, the SEIU Local 1000 bargaining team reached an overall Tentative Agreement with the State. If ratified, the contract would significantly raise the wage floor for tens of thousands of state workers. It...
Jul 18, 2023 | Bargaining Unit 17 Updates
Today’s Unit 17 bargaining session was both brief and productive. We reached a tentative agreement that protects previous hard-fought language and exchanged and discussed two other counterproposals. With today’s tentative agreement on contract section 19.9.17, our...
Jul 11, 2023 | Bargaining Unit 17 Updates
Unit 17’s bargaining session today was marked by productive discussion on a number of issues, capped by two tentative agreements that ensure greater safety for our represented nurses. Working in prisons with inmate patients always presents the risk of dangerous...
