What to know about SEIU Local 1000s proposed one-day strike
If history is a guide, the one-day strike that SEIU Local 1000 just announced for Dec. 5 will not happen. While state employee unions periodically authorize walkouts, including Local 1000 in 2009, none has actually taken place.
That gives the Brown administration a week to wrap up contract negotiations with California’s largest public sector union, which represents about 95,000 workers in nine of its 21 bargaining units, or risk embarrassing disruptions for lawmakers’ return to the Capitol on the first day of the new session and during the annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony that evening.
But while the possible work stoppage would be unprecedented, it might also be illegal: Local 1000 has a no-strike clause in its contract.
It’s the first point the union addresses in a Q&A for members that was published Tuesday after the strike announcement, citing a 1984 order by the Public Employees Relation Board.
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