Year: 2020

• Press Release | July 1, 2020

  Home Care workers of SEIU Local 2015 – California’s Largest Union – Joined National Day of Action to Demand State and Local Support for Home Care Workers

  SEIU Local 2015 Demand Actions That Protect Home Care Workers Throughout California Los Angeles, CA -- July 1 -- Today, SEIU Local 2015 members across the state united with SEIU members across the country to demand action in the fight...
• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | June 25, 2020

  As COVID-19 devastates senior care homes, Fresno-area families struggle to help elders

  

  In the final days of March, lunch with her 91-year-old mother turned into a nightmare for Emilia Martinez. Martinez’s mother tripped and broke her leg at a restaurant and needed surgery. Eventually, her rehabilitation treatment landed her at Redwood Springs...

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• Covid-19 News | Issues | June 19, 2020

  ‘People over profits’: Visalia nursing home employees demand better working conditions

  Westgate Gardens Care Center employees on Thursday carried signs and chanted calls for hazard pay and better treatment during the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 outbreaks in local nursing homes have been one of the main drivers of Tulare County COVID-19 infections. Westgate...

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• Press Release | June 18, 2020

  Nursing Home Workers and California’s Largest Union – SEIU Local 2015 – Hold Vigil to Honor the Lives of Residents and Caregivers Lost to COVID-19

  Workers and Union Leaders Across the State Honor Lives Lost While Calling on State and Local Leaders for Long-Term Solutions to the Aging Crisis Los Angeles, CA -- June 18  -- Today, members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local...
• Press Coverage | June 15, 2020

  Death Trap: When COVID-19 Hit L.A. Nursing Homes, Where Was the County’s Department of Public Health?

  

  John is one of the lucky ones. That is, if good fortune can be ascribed to someone living at a nursing home where 83 residents and 30 staff have contracted COVID-19 – and 19 have died from the disease. The 66-year-old...

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• Medium | June 6, 2020

  A Win for our Long Term Care Champ, Gavin Newsom!

  Home care and nursing home workers throughout California rejoice the first place win of Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom for state Governor. At the start of his campaign, Gavin Newsom met with members of SEIU 2015, walked a day in our shoes, and expressed his...

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• Press Coverage | June 6, 2020

  Navigating Home Care During the Pandemic
• Press Coverage | June 4, 2020

  Caregivers See Threats from COVID-19 and Budget Cuts

  

  As California reopens, essential home care workers may have their hours cut. For workers who provide in-home care for disabled and elderly individuals, reopening the economy is a risky proposition. As a low-paid workforce, they are particularly vulnerable to both exploitation and infection....

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | May 28, 2020

  Coronavirus pone a trabajadores de asilos al filo de la navaja

  

  Aman su trabajo esencial, pero al mismo tiempo han sido de los más impactados por la pandemia. Roberta Rodríguez, una enfermera asistente que se contagió de coronavirus en un asilo de la ciudad de Santa Ana donde trabaja, pasó noches...

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• Covid-19 News | May 18, 2020

  Understaffing at nursing homes may be making coronavirus crisis worse: “It makes me mad and it makes me scared”

  Out of more than 89,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States, over 28,000 are connected to nursing homes, CBS News has confirmed. And a lack of staff at these facilities may have made the problem worse...

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• Press Release | May 14, 2020

  Nursing Home Workers and California’s Largest Union – SEIU Local 2015 – Participate in a “National Day of Action” in Honor of National Skilled Nursing Care Week

  Nursing Home Workers Assemble Caregivers Caravan to Make Stops at Nursing Homes to Support Workers and Residents as Employers Neglect to Do Their Part to Flatten the Curve Los Angeles, CA -- May 14 -- Today, Service Employees International Union...