Year: 2025

• Press 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,...

  Our Care Counts
• Press Coverage | 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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• Press Coverage | 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...

  Arnulfo De La CruzBudget Reforms
• Press Coverage | 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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• Press Coverage | 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...

  Arnulfo De La CruzProfits over Health
• Union Updates | May 30, 2025

  May 2025 Member Newsletter

  I know you’ve been hearing from your union a lot lately. That’s because there’s a lot at stake for long-term care workers and those you care for and we want to make sure you’re informed and have the opportunity to...

  All RegionsMember Newsletter
• Press 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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• Press Release | May 27, 2025

  Los Angeles County Home Care Providers–mostly women of color and the county’s largest low-wage workforce–call for an investment in long-term care at Board of Supervisors. 

  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers speak out again that the county is responsible for lifting their wages and insist that paying for the county’s sex abuse lawsuits should not fall on their backs.  LOS ANGELES, CA—In-Home Supportive Services...

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• Media Advisory | May 27, 2025

  Los Angeles County Home Care Providers–mostly women of color and the county’s largest low-wage workforce–call for county CEO representation at the table and an investment in care at Board of Supervisors. 

  **MEDIA ADVISORY**   In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers speak out again that the county is responsible for lifting their wages and insist that paying for the county’s sex abuse lawsuits should not fall on their backs.  WHEN: Tuesday, May...

  Livable WageRegion 1
• Union Updates | Campaigns | May 23, 2025

  No state budget cuts to long-term care!

  Governor Newsom’s recent budget proposal is an attack on hundreds of thousands of Californians who rely on long-term care services and the caregivers who make that care possible.  Instead of balancing the budget on the backs of low-income older adults,...
• Press Coverage | 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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