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Santa Clara County Chapter – Behavioral Health Collective Actions on April 6 and 7

Dear Members,

We are taking action collectively to send the following clear message to CEO Jeff Smith and to the Board: it is unacceptable that our leadership in the Behavioral Health Department is not transparent and doesn’t communicate, consult, not listen to our frontline workers during the COVID-19 crisis while putting its employees, clients, and our community at risk.

Your Steward Council has written up an unfavorable report to management. See the report here:

Unfavorable Report to ManagementDownload

We need you and your co-workers to participate in two actions:

  1. Send the unfavorable report to Jeff Smith at Jeff.smith@ceo.sccgov.org on Monday, April 6, and ask your co-workers who work in Behavioral Health to do the same on Monday, April 6.  We need to have more than 150 emails sent to him on Monday, April 6.
  2. We will present the unfavorable report to the Board on Tuesday, April 7, at 9:30 a.m. during the Board’s meeting which will be held via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/108098082.  Let us know if you can attend the meeting by contacting your steward or your SEIU 521 Organizer Merina Au Yeung at Merina.AuYeung@seiu521.org or (408) 678 3333. Encourage your co-workers to join if they can.

In unity,

Your SEIU 521 Steward Council

Visit the COVID-19 online toolkit with resources, information, and updates for our SEIU 521 members: https://www.seiu521.org/covid19/

In the COVID-19 online toolkit you will find:

  • Local, State, and Federal Resources  
  • Fact sheets 
  • Our union’s demands of employers
  • Preventive actions taken by our union
  • Mental health support

We will continue providing updates to the toolkit as they become available.