As the Trump administration reports that Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is set to run out of funds by 2026 due to rising health care costs, an aging population, and decreasing revenues, California’s largest long term care workers’ union, April Verrett, issued the following statement:

“Seniors and long term care workers in California refuse to accept this complacency by the Trump administration and our lawmakers, acting like there’s nothing to be done about the draining of the Medicare Trust Fund.

SEIU Local 2015 will have an Executive Board Meeting in Sacramento, California, April 30 – May 1, 2019.

We have a lot to be proud of over the last six months. Across the state, home care and nursing home members of SEIU Local 2015 used their power to bargain contracts that have increased wages, improved benefits and strengthened worker protections. Check our very first 2018 Biannual Newsletter to learn more.