Contra Costa County

Chapter News and Events
Reflecting on the 2016 Election
12/27/2016
Farewell and Best Wishes to Jonathan Wright
12/27/2016
Don’t Forget to Use Your Professional Development Benefit!
12/27/2016
All Local 21 members are reminded to utilize your Professional Development reimbursement benefit.
Memorialized as Section 41.11 of our contract, the benefit is valued at up to $625. For every two years, the Professional Development benefit allows bargaining unit members to be reimbursed for the purchase of:
Contra Costa Executive Board Election
12/27/2016
Employer Tries to Get Around Local 21 to Contract Out Jobs, Loses, and Ends Up Paying Members Money
10/25/2016
Contra Costa County Chapter Wins a 3-Year Deal!
07/05/2016
Charter School Interests Seek to Ban Organized Labor from Participation in School Board Elections
06/30/2016
Help Contra Costa MOU Bargaining By Submitting Equity Adjustment Documentation
04/11/2016
Contra Costa County Equity Adjustment Resources
Bargaining Starts for New Contract
04/11/2016
Bargaining for a new contract for some 1,000 Contra Costa County employees represented by Local 21 began in March. The current three-year agreement expires June 30, 2016.
Local 21 Members are determined to win fair wage increases for the work they perform and build on recent victories, which include successful negotiations last year to have the county pay a fairer share for increases in healthcare premium costs.
Union Representative Dons Another Cap: School Board Member
02/19/2016
As if this hard-charging union organizer and negotiator didn’t have enough on his plate, Jonathan T. Wright, Local 21's lead staff representative in Contra Costa County, is taking on another responsibility: school board member. On Feb. 1, the married, 35-year-old Wright was sworn in as the newest member of the Martinez Unified School District Board. In some ways it’s a post Wright has been groomed for his entire life.