SEIU Keeps Sonoma County Thriving

SEIU 1021 members are the eligibility specialists, social workers, registered nurses, legal assistants, environmental specialists, engineering technicians, and acquisition specialists keeping Sonoma County thriving.

Here’s the good news:

92% of workers feel their work makes a positive community impact.
83% of workers feel a sense of community with their co-workers.

Here’s the bad news:

69% feel staffing levels are inadequate to serve the public.
50% of workers feel their workload is unmanageable.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors must invest in the services that keep our community thriving.

SEIU 1021 members are the eligibility specialists, social workers, registered nurses, legal assistants, environmental specialists, engineering technicians, and acquisition specialists keeping Sonoma County thriving.

Here’s the good news:

92% of workers feel their work makes a positive community impact.
83% of workers feel a sense of community with their co-workers.

Here’s the bad news:

69% feel staffing levels are inadequate to serve the public.
50% of workers feel their workload is unmanageable.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors must invest in the services that keep our community thriving.

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Sonoma County Board of Supervisors:

SEIU 1021 Members are Sonoma County.

We help families get food and health care. We protect children. We care for people in crisis. We keep roads and bridges safe. Sonoma County works because we do.

So when the Board of Supervisors refuses to staff these services, all of Sonoma County pays the price. Here’s what that looks like:

* Eligibility Services: Because of short staffing, some residents line up outside County buildings as early as 5AM and don’t leave until 2PM or 3PM. Phone waits can run two to three hours. Applications that should take days can take months. Families who need Medi-Cal to get a newborn to the doctor, or CalFresh to put food on the table, can’t wait that long.

* Child Protective Services: CPS is understaffed and has high turnover. When caseloads are this heavy, social workers don’t have enough time to spend with each family.
Psychiatric Nursing: The Crisis Stabilization Unit is staffed at the absolute minimum. Any time a nurse takes off has to be covered, and the person filling in may not have the right training. 
Medication room nurses are staffed at 50%, which is a safety concern.

* District Attorney’s Office: Short staffing makes it hard to keep up with paperwork. When paperwork is late, people can be held in custody longer than they otherwise would be. That raises concerns about the constitutional right to a speedy trial.

*Bridge and Road Projects: Ten years ago, the County had six environmental specialists. Today it has two, and projects take twice as long to approve. Some communities have waited 25 years for a bridge replacement. Some of those projects have been scaled back to retrofits, on bridges that weren’t built for a major earthquake. Culvert replacements that keep floods from washing out roads are delayed, too. This creates risk and danger.

* Traffic: The County has one traffic technician for all 1,300 miles of unincorporated roads.

* Land Conservation: Each acquisition specialist can work on five projects at a time but has 15. That slows the work of preserving land and combating climate change. The County is also spending $600,000 over five years on one contractor who works about 20 hours a month.

Sonoma County must bargain in good faith. By investing in public services, we keep Sonoma County thriving.

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