We know that many of our California brothers and sisters are suffering financial hardship as a result of natural disasters in our state. In response to fires, floods earthquakes in the past, local SEIU unions from across the nation have joined to offer support to members who may be suffering financial hardship as a result of the disaster.

Did you know that there is still a home care workforce out there that can only dream about fair compensation, being treated with respect, having a voice and being able to vote on their wages? Unfortunately, this is currently not the reality for private home care aides. They are incredibly isolated and subject to abuse. In addition, homecare workers are geographically spread out and do not have contact with co-workers and often change worksites, moving from private home to private home.

As a union of over 325,000 long term care workers across California, we are taking advantage of every opportunity available to us to move our Justice Agenda. We unite other care givers and our communities to support our issues through organizing non-union caregivers, using our contract bargaining to raise standards, electing politicians that will demonstrate our values and act on our issues and through the legislative and state budget process where decisions get made on how the state will spend its resources.