Category: Press Coverage

• Los Angeles Sentinel | June 19, 2025

  Left Behind in the Budget: L.A. County’s Home Care Workers Deserve Better

  

  Los Angeles is in the midst of a crisis. We have an aging population that increasingly relies on in-home support to age in their homes with dignity. Yet, as the county presented its latest budget, it left out the very...

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• News Coverage | June 18, 2025

  News Coverage of Santa Clara IHSS rally

  On June 17, 2025, over 100 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers rallied outside of the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors meeting to urge county officials to invest in long-term care and support immigrant workers amid months-long negotiations for a new...

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• New York Times | June 11, 2025

  How Labor Unions Came to Define the L.A. Immigration Protests

  

  Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one. So it should come as no surprise that federal immigration raids on workplaces around Los...

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• News Coverage | June 9, 2025

  News Coverage of Los Angeles protests against ICE raids

  CBS News: Hundreds gather in Los Angeles to demand release of California union leader arrested at immigration enforcement operation Hundreds gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, calling for the release of a union leader who was arrested at an...

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• News Coverage | June 5, 2025

  News Coverage of Our Care Counts Rally

  

  On June 4, 2025 thousands of long-term care workers from all across the state traveled to Sacramento and stand together to stop the budget cuts and improve California’s long-term care system. We joined with our sibling union, United Domestic Workers,...

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• Black Voice News | June 3, 2025

  California’s Vulnerable Communities At Risk Amid Proposed Budget Cuts

  

  Community health advocates are alarmed after Gov. Gavin Newsom released a summary of the May Revision to his proposed 2025-26 California state budget. According to the California Budget & Policy Center, Newsom’s revision aims to close an estimated $7.5 billion deficit for...

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• Politico | June 3, 2025

  First in Politico: Hitting Close to Home

  

  Unions representing in-home caregivers are cranking up the heat on legislative leaders and Newsom by running broadcast and digital ads railing against cuts in the governor’s May budget proposal. A new video spot, airing in the Sacramento market, blasts a...

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• Healthcare Innovation | June 2, 2025

  Labor Organizer: Medicaid Cuts Could Devastate the Nursing Home Workforce

  

  Arnulfo De La Cruz, president of SEIU Local 2015, sees impending Medicaid cuts hitting nursing homes In the wake of the passage on May 22 of the 2026 budget bill by the U.S. House of Representatives, leaders of diverse organizations and alliances...

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• PopularResistance.org | June 2, 2025

  From Coast To Coast, People Demand Health Care For All, Not Profits

  

  On Saturday, May 31, people across the United States rallied as part of the first National Day of Action organized by National Single Payer to demand Health, not Profit: Put National Single Payer on the Nation’s Agenda. A national single...

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• News Coverage | May 27, 2025

  News Coverage Los Angeles County Home Care Providers call for an investment in long-term care at Board of Supervisors

  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) caregivers—members of SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest labor union and the nation’s largest long-term care union—returned to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to demand investment in home care and improve the lives of the County’s...

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• Capradio | May 23, 2025

  Local in-home support workers at risk due to proposed state budget cuts

  

  Bernadette Walton is a Sacramento resident who is an in-home support service worker for her daughter. She provides for her 11-year-old daughter, who is autistic and needs support at home. Walton said her daughter needs help with everyday living — hygiene,...

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