{"id":62603,"date":"2024-02-06T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=62603"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T22:46:21","slug":"governor-newsom-statement-on-announcement-by-seiu-president-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=62603","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom Statement on Announcement by SEIU President Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>SACRAMENTO<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Governor Gavin Newsom issued the below\u00a0statement today following Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry\u2019s announcement that she will not seek reelection:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder Mary Kay Henry\u2019s visionary leadership, SEIU has been a powerful force lifting up workers and their families from coast to coast and championing an economy that works for working people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first woman and\u00a0LGBTQ president to lead the union, Henry has delivered countless victories throughout her nearly 14-year tenure, including groundbreaking legislation securing fast-food workers a seat at the table to develop industry-wide working conditions and\u00a0giving child care workers the right to collectively bargain. She has also led the union\u2019s\u00a0nationwide campaigns to\u00a0organize and give a voice to traditionally marginalized workers,\u00a0set fair wages,\u00a0and fight back against anti-union attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are forever grateful for her tireless efforts to empower and improve\u00a0working\u00a0people&#8217;s lives and look forward to continuing this important work with the next generation of leaders.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2013\u00a0Governor Gavin Newsom issued the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62604,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62603\/revisions\/62604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}