Year: 2025

• Press Coverage | April 25, 2025

  ‘I Shouldn’t Have to Fight My Own Government.’ Activists and Caregivers Rally for Medicaid in Clovis

  

  A pro-Medicaid rally Thursday organized by Central Valley disability rights activists and caregivers culminated in a roughly 20-minute conversation between a handful of protesters and workers outside U.S. Rep. Vince Fong’s field office in Clovis. Disability Voices United, a statewide...

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• Press Coverage | April 25, 2025

  ‘I shouldn’t have to fight my own government.’ Activists and caregivers rally for Medicaid in Clovis

  

  A pro-Medicaid rally Thursday organized by Central Valley disability rights activists and caregivers culminated in a roughly 20-minute conversation between a handful of protesters and workers outside U.S. Rep. Vince Fong’s field office in Clovis. Disability Voices United, a statewide...

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• Events | Action Network | April 24, 2025

  2025 May Day Events

  Join us to celebrate International Workers’ Day! On May 1st, we're gathering together to celebrate the strength of workers across California. Come out and show your support for our labor movement, the contributions of immigrant workers, and the dignity of...

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• Victory | Press Release | April 24, 2025

  San Joaquin County home care workers—mostly women of color—reach tentative agreement with Board of Supervisors on new union contract

  If ratified, IHSS workers will be on a path to $20/hour by 2028 San Joaquin County, CA – In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than half a million workers...

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• Press Coverage | April 23, 2025

  News Roundup from our Hands Off Medicaid actions across California

  

  ABC 10Hundreds protest possible Medi-Cal cuts outside Republican Congressional offices MODESTO, Calif. -- Hundreds of demonstrators are gathering outside California Republican Congressional offices this week to protest efforts to cut Medicaid funding. Read more... NBC 4 Los AngelesRally against proposed...

  MedicaidAnaheimRep. Young Kim
• Media | Press Release | April 22, 2025

  Alameda County home care workers urge Supervisors to address the long-term care crisis 

  Low wages are causing a care shortage by driving caregivers out of the profession  Alameda County, CA – Today, Alameda County’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than half...

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• Press Statement | April 18, 2025

  Statement from Arnulfo De La Cruz, President of SEIU 2015, on RFK Jr.’s harmful autism comments

  “As the president of a union representing more than half a million long-term care workers — many of whom love and care for people with disabilities, including autism — I know that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent remarks...

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• Press Coverage | April 18, 2025

  News Coverage of Hands off our Medicaid rallies

  

  CBS: Hands off Medicaid Rally in Bakersfield https://youtu.be/8wpziHSouas?si=qBx_00TfoegALS5I Fox News: Hands off Medicaid Rally in Bakersfield https://youtu.be/eVoCwc8gCF8?si=KPtAQ3TINm0TLuFj

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• Victory | Press Coverage | April 18, 2025

  Fresno County reaches tentative agreement with care workers

  FRESNO - SEIU Local 2015 has reached a tentative agreement with Fresno County to boost thousands of home care workers' wages and benefits, potentially putting a cap on strenuous negotiations that dragged on for over two years. If approved by...

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• Union Updates | April 16, 2025

  Alameda County IHSS Campaign Updates

  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a social service that allows people who need long-term care to receive it in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In Alameda County, over 30,000 IHSS workers provide long-term care services (including household...

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• Press Coverage | April 16, 2025

  LA County budget proposal reflects wildfire effects, landmark sex abuse settlement, federal funding losses

  

  Most Los Angeles County departments would be required to reduce spending by 3% under an austere budget proposal unveiled Monday by the chief executive officer. The $47.9 billion budget plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 reflects “extraordinary...

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