Year: 2022

• Press Coverage | May 4, 2022

  Could Roe Ruling Spark a Dem Policy Push?

  The SEIU is rolling out a lobbying campaign Thursday around D.C. to ramp up pressure on Congress to advance funding for home- and community-based care services as part of a revived, Democrat-backed budget reconciliation deal. The initiative includes banners and...

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• Press Coverage | May 3, 2022

  Facing labor shortages and cost hikes, many long-term care facilities are shuttering

  Advocates say things will worsen when federal assistance expires in July. In the sun-baked 66 miles between Tucson and Nogales at the Arizona-Mexico border, there's only one place that's able to provide the intensive, hands-on care so many patients need...

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• Press Statement | May 2, 2022

  Statement from SEIU 2015 President April Verrett on her appointment as co-chair of United to House Los Angeles

  

  “I’m honored to formally join United to House Los Angeles as campaign co-chair in their work to confront the city’s affordability crisis, reduce homelessness, and protect our most vulnerable community members. This cause is close to my heart as President...

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• Press Coverage | May 1, 2022

  May Day, 2022: News and Press

  Telemundo 52: May Day Esenciales y Unidos x Justicia Los trabajadores inmigrantes son el motor de este país, pero no se encuentran con la misma apreciación de los Estados Unidos. Es hora de valorar las vidas, la seguridad y los...
• Press Release | April 27, 2022

  Alameda County In-Home Care Providers—Mostly Women of Color—Make “Time for $20” a Reality with an 18% Wage Increase in New Union Contract

  A Milestone in the Union’s Statewide “Time for $20” Campaign, Union Calls on Other California Counties to Raise Wages as Workers Leave Industry. Alameda County, CA–In response to calls for immediate investments in long-term care workers to put them on the...

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• Press Coverage | April 27, 2022

  Guest essay: 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 Release | April 25, 2022

  SEIU California’s 700,000 Members Enthusiastically Endorse Governor Gavin Newsom for Reelection this November,  Pledge Partnership in Building “A California for All” 

  Sacramento, CA – The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California today announced its 700,000 frontline members in California have endorsed Governor Gavin Newsom for reelection this November.   “After leading California through the pandemic, SEIU members in California are determined to...

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• Press Release | April 22, 2022

  Amid growing unrest in nursing homes across the state, caregivers rise up in a third statewide day of action to denounce intolerable conditions and mark unnecessary deaths during the pandemic.

  Members of SEIU 2015—also joined this time by nonunion workers fighting for a union—will again mobilize across the state in a series of actions to address dangerously low staffing levels and the “Great Resignation” that continues to plague nursing homes....
• Press Coverage | April 22, 2022

  April 22, 2022: Statewide Action

  

  Today, SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing more than 400,000 nursing home workers and home care providers, is holding a statewide day of action—the third in as many months—rallying at nursing...
• Press Coverage | Video | April 22, 2022

  Enfermeros y Empleados de Asilos Exigen Mejores Condiciones Laborales

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• Press Coverage | April 21, 2022

  Fixing the Crisis in California’s Nursing Homes

  

  Normally, Robert Oronia works overnights, from 11 p.m. to 7 the next morning. But lately the certified nursing assistant (CNA) has been logging a lot of 12-hour shifts at Stoney Point Healthcare Center in Chatsworth. He says he could work back-to-back...

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