SEIU Local 1000

Corupt organization. Self serving group pretending to be a union that fights for their members. No representation and awful contracts are the general picture. We are forced to pay for all this. Very sad.

Union members in the United States earn significantly more than non-​union workers. Over the four-​year period between 2004 and 2007, unionized workers’ wages were on average 11.3 percent higher than non-​union workers with similar characteristics. That means that, all else equal, American workers that join a union will earn 11.3 percent more – or $ 2.26 more per hour in 2008 dollars – than their otherwise identical non-​union counterparts.
Yet union coverage rates have been declining for several decades. In 1983, 23.3 percent of American workers were either members of a union or represented by a union at their workplace. By 2008, that portion declined to 13.7 percent.

I called the SEIU office located at my work place to help my department organize. I called multiple times and got an answering machine. My understanding is that there are people who are employed to work at that office during business hours… I’m not sure where they are all day while everyone is busy working and why there is not a better follow up. I finally reached someone after a couple of weeks of constantly calling around the clock. The person told me they had no idea of how to help me organize a union for my department and directed me to the local SEIU office. I contacted the office and was sent from extension to extension to extension. I left a message on the MNA person’s voicemail as well as some unidentified SEIU employee’s number that I was extended to. A week and a half later the MNA person called me back and told me to get in contact with another person to better serve my department. I appreciated the call back but was yet again re-​routed. I called the person she recommended and got no answer. As SEIU members were lobbying my home for a different cause, I talked to one of the members and he ended up being an international representative of SEIU. He told me he would direct some people my way, after I expressed my frustration with the union. He was helpful and gave me a dead line of when this person would contact me. I was finally in touch with someone from SEIU. Although this person, YET AGAIN… re-​routed me to one more person, at least it was finally someone who seemed like he was going finally show some interest in my situation. We met for coffee and he took notes on all of my concerns. He wanted to check up frequently about talking to people and told me he would get me a list to help me know who I needed to touch base with. We set up two dates to touch base and I did so… except that was it. He kind of dropped off the radar. I tried to contact him and received no further contact. I am quite frustrated with SEIU and to be frank, the SEIU at my work place seems very weak and the employees seem to still get trampled all over. I called AFSCME today and already, I am in contact with someone to help me organize. I am extremely frustrated with SEIU and hope things will change because I don’t want a union to represent me when they

Hi Karen,
I am so sorry this happened to you. I sued SEIU Local 1000 for sexual harrassment and they paid to represent the person that injured me and the seiu staff that sexually harrassed me. I lost on a technicality that I was a state employee not union employee while on union leave. Our union never denied that this happened to me… just I was not a union employee. This lawsuit and it’s decision has affected all labor union Stewarts in Al labor organization. No state employee who volunteers for a union is safe from harm. Thanks to SEIU LOCAL 1000 leadership.
Also, a person told me that seiu back dates letters, from members needing representation, so they can turn them down. She was a staff person in their legal department.
Below are articles regarding my lawsuit.
Warmly, Mech Block-​Sherles

AN OPEN LETTER TO SIEU LOCAL 1000
IT IS A SHAME SIEU LOCAL 1000 that you are talking about timely filing. Can you show me which rules said 30 days’ time limit to file a complaint or it is your excuse not doing what you suppose to do? When you received my complaint on June 11, 2014 you have waited over 30 days to respond so it is untimely filed and cannot file grievance and complaint later on. When Caltrans did not do what supposed to do over 180 days all you can do is to request again? You are protecting employer not member or fee payer. Yvonne Walker never answered my email or letter over years.
IT IS A SHAME SIEU LOCAL 1000 that you are talking about contract. I have to do anything my supervisor said and anyway he wanted to. The contract means nothing. I have to do out of classification job. I have to let my supervisor shout and yell and put the paper into trash can in front of me. You guys just enjoy our hard earning money and do nothing to stop it. Union is a blood sucker.
IT IS A SHAME SIEU LOCAL 1000 that you are complaining me for not providing any details regarding what happened with the career development plan. Why don’t you asked my supervisor what happened after I submit the form? When union did not help me did you issue a rejecting letter? Now you want a rejecting letter of Caltrans from me? Are you out of mind? I believe you are.
IT IS A SHAME SIEU LOCAL 1000 that before I got fired in year 2005 I went to union to seek help. A black guy said later on that he thought the job steward Joyce already send my complaint to Caltrans so he did not send. In fact nobody sent anything to anywhere. This is the way union treated member and fee payer. It is a shame that after I got fired in year 2005 union did not respond my phone call, email, and certified mail. This is what happened when I timely filed a contract related case. Did Caltrans follow rules and regulations to fire me? Of course not. Did I owe union due so you ignored me? I don’t think so. I did not pay a dime to Pasadena library, but the librarian provided best service to me. She found several wrongful termination books for me. It helped me get my job back not SIEU LOCAL 1000.
IT IS A SHAME SIEU LOCAL 1000 that I am continue working under the condition without individual development plan every year, with a duty statement including out of classification duty, without enough information and training to do my job, with a college degree, passing the exam but no promotion while others did not have college degree and did not pass exam and got promotion. Union just ignored what I said. Union only sees what you want to see and does what you want to do and violate contract yourself.
IT IS A SHAME SIEU LOCAL 1000 that I paid union due over two decades and union did not follow contract and did not do one thing to protect me including wrongful termination. Union becomes worse and worse. While other union got 12% salary increase for his members you got 4% for us. Members got so mad with all the bad comments online all the time.
IT IS A SHAME THA SIEU LOCAL 1000 lied. Member is different from fee payer. Fee payer pays around $ 30 less then member each month and union still has obligation to represent fee payer since fee payer pays union for representation. However SIEU LOCAL 1000 lied that the difference of fee is $ 2.00 only and union will not represent fee payer. The bottom line is SIEU LOCAL 1000 never helped either member or fee payer. IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION AND FORM TO WITHDRAW FROM SIEU LOCAL 1000 AND SAVE $ 30 PER MONTH LEGALLY, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT
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First let me say that I am willing to work for the State of California at wages at least 20% less than my private-​industry peers. I do this because it is an investment in my retirement, and as a single woman it is prudent to make use of all investment opportunities available to me. That being said, I am NOT willing to to pay you, SEIU, $ 700 a year to accept a dismal 4% salary increase spread out over three years on the heels of several years of furloughs that have DIMINISHED my income by $ 17,000. SEIU, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. I am throwing away $ 50 a month for NOTHING. What exactly do you people do other than provide a support network for the nonproducing, uneducated, disappearing slackers, who demand equal treatment and pay as those who are their polar opposites? Many of these folks make more money than I do. I can’t even get a merit increase for a job well done.
SEIU, YOU ARE DONE!!! YOUR DEMISE IS IMMINENT…

I belong to this sorry assed Union unfortunately. They have a call center and a black guy answers the phone with an attitude, as if I’m taking time from his 8 hour break. I leave a message for a rep to call me back, she calls me at work, of course, and can’t explain my labor problem with any privacy. I get her email to sent her my questions and dilemma, and I guess she «forgot» to get back at me. These people are basically lazy and ineffective. We are basically been «taxed» for a Union that doesn’t do anything for us without us walking to them to demand things to be done.

Word up to the first reviewer. The union is a piece or work — thieves at best.