Year: 2022

• Press Release | May 16, 2022

  Working people fan out across country to mobilize voters ahead of midterm elections in “Spring Into Action” push

  Conversations center on rising prices, lack of affordable home care and attacks on fundamental rights WASHINGTON – Hundreds of SEIU members are mobilizing in key battlegrounds to talk to voters about what’s motivating them this election year, including greedy corporations...

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• Press Coverage | May 16, 2022

  Roberto De La Cruz, a farmworker activist who was trained by Cesar Chavez, dies at 75

  

  Longtime farm-labor activist Roberto De La Cruz, who dedicated much of his life to helping the poorest and most exploited workers in America, died earlier this month. He was 75 years old upon his passing on May 7. De La...

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• Press Coverage | May 14, 2022

  Pro-choice activists descend on DC, vow to be ‘ungovernable’ as they protest draft Supreme Court opinion

  

  Thousands of pro-choice activists from different corners in America descended on Washington, D.C., on Saturday for the "Bans Off Our Bodies" event organized by a coalition of groups including Planned Parenthood and the Women's March. Welcoming activists to the nation's capital, Rachel...

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• Press Coverage | May 13, 2022

  Union president on why care work is inextricably linked to challenges of climate change

  

  When Democratic policymakers including Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey tout their Green New Deal legislation, they are usually speaking about climate-related jobs — employment in clean energy production, environmental restoration or climate adaptation work in cities.  Their overarching...

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• Press Release | May 12, 2022

  By Investing in Workers, California Will Show the Nation What Equitable Recovery Looks Like 

  Sacramento, CA – Members of the Service Employees International Union in California responded enthusiastically to Governor Newsom’s announcement that California’s minimum wage will rise to $15.50 and applauded his proposal for retention bonuses for health care workers, including nursing home...

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• Press Coverage | May 11, 2022

  Biden’s personal recovery plan: Pump up unions, squeeze Big Business

  

  Joe Biden has long identified as a proud union man, having cultivated relationships with top labor leaders over decades in Washington. Now, with his presidency facing intense peril, Biden is hoping those bonds and that image can lift his fortunes...

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• Press Coverage | May 11, 2022

  To Fix Nursing Homes, Listen to Nursing Home Workers

  

  Just over two years ago, Californians were ordered to stay at home to halt the spread of COVID-19. Our lives haven’t been the same since. But one thing hasn’t changed—the conditions that made nursing homes more dangerous than any other...

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• Press Coverage | May 11, 2022

  May 11th: Home Care Providers Rally at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Office in Escalation of their “Time for $20” Campaign

  Los Angeles, CA, Wednesday, May 11th – Today, In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) caregivers — joined by their supporters, including Ron Herrera, President of LA County Federation of Labor, Apolonio Morales of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles...

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• Press Release | May 11, 2022

  Home Care Providers Rally at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Office in Escalation of their “Time for $20” Campaign

  Backdropped by a giant banner listing basic necessities they can’t afford, members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 long-term care workers in California, rallied for a $20 per hour living wage floor and...

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• Press Statement | Union Updates | May 11, 2022

  Remembering Roberto De La Cruz

  

  By Mary Kay Henry The SEIU family has lost a true warrior for workers. Roberto De La Cruz helped transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of working people during his fifty years in the labor movement, including twenty with...

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• Press Coverage | May 9, 2022

  Alameda County’s 6,000 Chinese-American nurses are getting a pay rise, expected to take effect in September

  

  阿拉米達縣6000華裔護工要漲薪了 預計9月生效 長期家庭護理工會（SEIU 2015）本周與阿拉米達縣達成初步協議，家庭護工在未來三年內漲薪18%，在2025年1月1日達到時薪20元的水準。 阿縣目前有2萬1000個護工，其中四分之一為亞裔，多數為華裔。華裔護工約6000人。做了20多年家庭護工的華人朱麗霞（Lisa Zhu）5日呼籲更多同事加入工會，也希望工會為會員爭取退休金等更多福利。

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