Year: 2025

• Press Coverage | May 8, 2025

  The Unkindest Cut: Slashing Medicaid Threatens the Medically Vulnerable

  

  For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare...

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• Press Coverage | May 7, 2025

  News Coverage of Longtime Santa Cruz resident’s immigration detention sparks protests ahead of court hearing in Washington state

  

  Cliona Ward, a longtime Santa Cruz resident, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on April 21, 2025, after returning from Ireland where she was visiting her sick father. Lookout Santa Cruz:Longtime Santa Cruz resident's immigration detention sparks...

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• Press Release | May 6, 2025

  Santa Clara County home care workers rally, urging Supervisors to address the care crisis by raising wages 

  New survey reveals impact of low wages among county IHSS workforce amid provider shortage Santa Clara County, CA – Today, nearly 150 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than...

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• Media Advisory | May 5, 2025

  Home care workers rally for livable wages to address Santa Clara County’s growing long-term care crisis

  **MEDIA ADVISORY**  WHEN: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 8:30 AM: Over 150 home care workers and allies rally outside of the Santa Clara County Government Center. SEIU 2015 home care workers are available for media interviews. 9:30 AM: Home care workers provide public comment at...

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• Press Coverage | May 5, 2025

  Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

  

  Rachel Smith has a psychology degree and gave up her job doing nails to take care of her son with cerebral palsy. She’s one of 11 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers who spoke at an April 8 Shasta County Board...

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• Press Coverage | May 5, 2025

  Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

  More than 4,000 Shasta County community members work for a program known as In-Home Health Services. While IHSS workers are legally allowed to strike once their contract expires, local workers are pursuing other forms of negotiation instead — out of...

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• Press Coverage | May 1, 2025

  Statewide Coverage of 2025 May Day Actions

  

  May 1st, 2025, members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union, and California’s largest labor union representing more than half a million care workers across California—are gathering for May Day also known as International Workers’ Day to...

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• Union Updates | April 30, 2025

  April 2025 Member Newsletter

  Celebrating May Day May Day has long been a powerful day of action for working people across the globe. It’s a time to honor the labor movement’s historic fights for dignity, livable wages, and safe working conditions. On May 1st,...

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• Campaigns | Events | Politics | April 29, 2025

  Our Care Counts 2025

  

  Caregivers are the Defenders and the Future of Care IHSS providers and nursing home workers are coming together to protect, defend and transform the care hundreds of thousands of older Californians and those living with disabilities rely on by: Stopping...

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• Media Advisory | April 29, 2025

  Join us in Santa Cruz County to celebrate International Workers’ Day!

  **MEDIA ADVISORY**  WHEN:Thursday, May 1st, 4:30 PM WHERE:358 Main Street, Watsonville 95076 WHO:Long-term care workers (members of SEIU 2015); Supporters and allies of the SEIU Local 2015 community. WHAT:Santa Cruz In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers and nursing home...

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• Media Advisory | April 29, 2025

  Join us in Monterey to celebrate International Workers’ Day!

  **MEDIA ADVISORY**  WHEN:Thursday, May 1st, 12:00 PM WHERE:334 Monterey Street, Salinas 93901 WHO:Long-term care workers (members of SEIU 2015); Supporters and allies of the SEIU Local 2015 community. WHAT:Monterey In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers and nursing home workers—members...

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