SEIU organized Eligibility Worker Industry Councils throughout California that work in collaboration to address issues and concerns Eligibility Workers encounter in the workplace and the state level. SEIU Local 521 represents Eligibility Workers in counties from Bakersfield to San Jose. The EW Industry Council members lobby key officials in Sacramento to discuss issues, support bills that benefit Eligibility Workers and address on-going IT technical issues that Eligibility Workers face on a daily basis.
The purpose of this survey is to obtain information from members SEIU Local 521represents from five counties; Fresno, Kern, Monterey, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz. The questions reflect the work members in eligibility departments complete and the working conditions that impact the eligibility workers on a daily basis. Many of the impacts are related to decisions made at the state level or are a direct result of your counties management’s decisions. In order for the union and the members to work on these issues, we need to better understand what those impacts are.