Year: 2022

• 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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• Press Release | May 6, 2022

  Town Hall brings nursing home workers face-to-face with legislators moving proposal to transform the industry

  Sen. Stern, Asm. Santiago joined SEIU 2015 in championing the Skilled Nursing Quality Standards Board to address the industry’s “Great Resignation” crisis and dangerously low staffing levels to ensure quality care May 6, 2022, Los Angeles, CA – Yesterday, long-term...

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• Press Coverage | May 4, 2022

  The Labor Movement Today w/Shakari Byerly & Anetta Wells

  As we celebrated International Workers Day on May 1, this time on the Legal Lens Show we welcome Shakari Byerly - Managing Partner and Principal Researcher at EVITARUS - and Annetta Wells - the Statewide Deputy Political Director for SEIU...

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• Press Coverage | May 4, 2022

  ‘Poverty-level wages’: California workers fight to reform nursing homes 

  

  Jesus Figueroa Cacho, a certified nursing assistant of the Sacramento, California area, has worked in the nursing home industry for about 25 years. She consistently works 16 hour long shifts, 60 to 80 hours per week, often working through breaks...

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• Press Statement | May 4, 2022

  Statement from SEIU Local 2015 President April Verrett on Supreme Court Draft Opinion Regarding Roe v. Wade

  Los Angeles, CA, May 3, 2022 – April Verrett, President of SEIU Local 2015, released the following statement in response to the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court announcing the intention to strike down Roe v. Wade: “This Monday,...

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