Rosalind Dobson Myers:
CLASS OF 1968
Vashon High SchoolClass of 1968
St. louis, MO
Rosalind's Story
Rosalind is from St. Louis. Her schools include Vashon High School. She later attended UC Berkeley Labor Center. She works(ed) at SEIU Local 1000.
More about Rosalind:"Roz Myers. . .Made in America. . .Born American Federation Labor. . .Product of the 60’s Yeah Baby!! It was fun (the strikes, pickets
and rent parties), but it was tough (the bread line and the strike
fund). Tough fun is how I describe my life. To describe me - I am
the eldest of eight children and the only girl. Having seven brothers
was the tough part about it. My family and I are natives of St.
Louis, Missouri. We relocated to Sacramento in 1970. My husband
Joe and I have a combined family of nine children - his 2, my
2, our 1 and the sibling set of 4 we adopted this past October.
During the past 25 plus years I have had interesting jobs working in state
service from Food and Ag doing crop surveys, learning how the
agriculture of the State is accounted for and who really owns the
land, to Cal Fire when it was the Dept. of Forestry where I learned
to spot forest fires on the horizon and recognize Mt. Diablo’s second
base line and meridian. I have also worked for EDD in the
Employer Tax Branch that dealt with private domestic employment
wages (collecting social security taxes from people who hire domestic workers and don't want to pay into the system for them, FTB when it was located in Folsom on the AERO Jet property, General Services Real Estate Division to the Legislature working in the Lt. Governor’s office, Leo T.Mc Carthy; both houses of the legislature: Assemwmn. Maxine Waters & Sen. Nicholas C. Petris; and to date the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. I have been a union steward for 15 years, 10 years under CSEA and 5...Expand for more
with SEIU Local 1000 as a District Bargaining Unit Representative where I can directly impact our contract language as a conduit between members and the bargaining table.
My interests are in advocacy for working families, women, children, seniors, the disabled and the community. I have been an advocate for civil rights and workers rights, and marched into Sacramento with the United Farm Workers when they and Cesar Chavez came to see then Governor Jerry Brown. (I worked f/Lt. Gov. McCarthy then). I was an appointed member to the Sacramento Area Council on Government (SACOG) and a committee member on the transportation committee which worked to bring light rail to the Sacramento area. I also enjoy advocacy and working to access education and the educational needs of developmentally delayed children. I have had the opportunity to help families formulate and implement the all important Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) to access their rights to special education programs. I am a strong advocate for women and ending the violence against women and children, working through church and the community,
and with then legislative member BT Collins. Housing, the disabled, seniors, mental health and suicide are also areas I have testified on behalf of and worked for continued funding for services.
A highlight for me was that while working with the legislature
I was privileged to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu and prisoner's from Robin Island South Africa during the apartheid campaign and the divestment of United States funds in South Africa. *Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.— Roz Myers".
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