Worksite Organizer

SEIU 721 is a dynamic and fast-growing labor organization recognized as one of the largest and strongest unions of publicly funded employees in the nation. We represent over 100,000 workers and have over 200 staff employees covering 6 counties in Southern California; including Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties and numerous cities in these regions. Our members provide critical services within the public and private sectors in diverse fields including health care, social services, libraries, courts, parks and recreation, public works, higher education, mental health, and many others.

They work tirelessly to care for the sick, protect the environment, support families in need, and protect our communities' most vulnerable individuals. We represent frontline workers who impact millions of lives daily and make sure their work is respected and valued.

SEIU 721 organizes workers in the public and private sectors and empowers them to not only affect change in their workplace, but at the political level as well. Through grassroots organizing, identifying, and developing leaders within our Union, we make sure that our members voices are heard, and that the government is held accountable to ensuring efficiency, advocating for those in need, and improving access to services.

SEIU 721 represents public and private service workers across Southern California who are committed to their communities’ health and well-being. Our goal is to uplift those workers who have been historically marginalized and give them a seat at the table so they may provide for their families for generations to come. We continue to grow our outreach so that we can provide excellent representation and strengthen the power of workers in a changing labor economy.

The decisions made by the Worksite Organizer can have a profound effect on worker’s lives. Their main responsibility is to implement the union’s program. As such, a Worksite Organizer is responsible for articulating the Union’s message to workers, contract enforcement, and carrying out internal and external work of SEIU Local 721 as approved by the Executive Board and implemented by the Executive Leadership.

The Worksite Organizer will also motivate, mobilize, and represent existing and potential members to protect their rights and improve the quality of their work lives. The Worksite Organizer principle job is to provide leadership to carry out the goals of Local 721.

For every component of this position, the Worksite Organizer will be required to identify, recruit, develop, mentor, train, and coach leaders in the following areas:

• Development: Identifying and developing member leaders is the primary function of the Worksite Organizer. All programs of the union, including but not limited to membership, COPE, representation, bargaining, and campaigns should be run through strong leadership structures. Ability to train and motivate leaders to build and maintain strong leadership structures designed to empower and mobilize workers by advancing the union’s program priorities.
  
  Craft leader development plans to increase the skills of leaders in their areas of leadership. Train and develop member lost timers, including but not limited to: modeling, shadowing, development of training instruments, providing feedback, debriefing, etc.
• Commitment to the Values of the Organization: Adheres to the values of unionism such as member leader development, representation, organizing, and mobilization. Must be able to articulate the values of social justice, economic justice, racial justice, and environmental justice in line with the policies of the local and international union.
• Recruitment: Accou…