Category: Press Coverage

• AP News | September 1, 2025

  1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows

  

  It’s tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California’s Central Valley. She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years after she illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenager. ...

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• LA Times | August 30, 2025

  ‘Moment of crisis’: Unions in somber mood this Labor Day

  

  Thousands of workers and union organizers from across California will gather for picnics and marches this weekend to honor the contributions of the nation’s working people. But the Labor Day celebrations will be tempered by a sobering reality: Unions face...

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• The Mendocino Voice | August 29, 2025

  Protesters in Ukiah challenge healthcare cuts in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

  

  UKIAH, CA., 8/29/25 — During Tuesday’s evening rush hour, about 60 protesters lined East Perkins Street near Hospital Drive waving signs and chanting. Cars often honked, people waved, and the protesters bobbed their signs and cheered.  The protest was intended...

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• The Reporter | August 26, 2025

  SEIU members ask supes for fair wages

  

  A group of Solano County In Home Supportive Services providers and SEIU members spoke during public comment at the Tuesday Solano County Board of Supervisors meetings, asking elected officials to pay them a fair and living wage. About ten members...

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• NPR | August 22, 2025

  She’s cared for America’s elderly for decades. Trump wants her gone by Sept. 8

  

  LOS ANGELES — Aurora was working as a nurse at a hospital in her home country of Honduras when she decided to leave for good. A mother of two, she yearned for a better future for herself and her young...

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• Lake County News | August 20, 2025

  IHSS workers ask supervisors to increase pay, address long-term care crisis in midst of contract negotiations

  

  LAKEPORT, Calif. — On Tuesday, Lake County’s In-Home Supportive Services workers, now in contract negotiations with the county of Lake, returned to the Board of Supervisors meeting to urge elected officials to invest in long-term care.  In-Home Supportive Services, or...
• The Trinity Journal | August 18, 2025

  Bomb robot, other county funding questioned

  

  The Trinity County Board of Supervisors met Aug. 6 for a regular meeting where most business was done through the consent agenda.

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• NPR | August 13, 2025

  Trump’s move to end TPS rattles health care workers who tend to the sick and elderly

  

  The Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for people from a number of countries has rattled health care workers who tend to the sick and elderly.

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• The Almanac | July 23, 2025

  Aging population will further stress in-home support network

  New numbers point to coming crisis in Santa Clara, San Mateo counties Natascha Walker works full-time as her 22-year-old autistic daughter’s caregiver. Walker is a provider through California’s In-Home Support Services program, which enables disabled people and older adults to...

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• News Coverage | July 18, 2025

  News Coverage of “Good Trouble Lives On” Statewide Actions to Defend Democracy and the Future of Care

  On the fifth anniversary of civil rights legend Congressman John Lewis’s passing, members of SEIU Local 2015—California’s largest labor union and the nation’s largest long-term care union—mobilized in communities across the state as part of the nationwide Good Trouble Lives On day of...

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• LA Opinión | June 30, 2025

  Un plan devastador para California

  

  Newsom advierte del peligro del "Gran y Hermoso" proyecto de ley de Donald Trump que recortaría millones en salud y asistencia alimentaria “Nos quieren matar”, es la frase contundente de la señora Estela Montoya, de 65 años, residente de Bell...

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