Year: 2025

• 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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• Press Statement | May 22, 2025

  CA House Republicans Vote to Terminate Health Care for Millions in Dark-of-Night Vote

  Estimated 3,500 Californians Will Die Each Year as a Direct Result of Issa, Kim, Fong, Kiley, LaMalfa, McClintock, Obernolte, Valadao’s VotesReckless Cuts, Emergency Room Wait Times Expected to Skyrocket, Hospitals that Rely on Medi-Cal Funding Could be Shut Down $800...

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• Press Release | May 20, 2025

  Fresno County Home Care Providers–mostly women of color–ratify new union contract, bringing higher wages, healthcare, and more!

  Fresno County, CA –Fresno County In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union, representing half a million nursing home workers and home care providers—ratified a new union contract...
• Press Coverage | May 20, 2025

  This Weeks Medicaid Actions Across California

  

  23 ABC News Bakersfield:Healthcare advocates rally outside of Rep. David Valadao's office in Bakersfield today. https://youtu.be/ROTBcG-EWVA KBAK Eyewitness News at Noon:Mock funeral held to highlight cuts to Medicaid and Health Care https://youtu.be/1ErjPTLPtRo NBC Bakersfield:‘Medicaid cuts kill’: Healthcare rallies continue, this...

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• Victory | Press Coverage | May 20, 2025

  Fresno County Board of Supervisors approves new contract for home care workers boosting wages over $18

  

  The Fresno County Board of Supervisors approved a new contract for the county’s thousands of home care workers, marking the end of over two years of negotiations. The Fresno County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a new three-year contract for...

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• Victory | Press Release | May 19, 2025

  San Joaquin County home care workers—mostly women of color—ratify new union contract, raising wages to more than $20 an hour by 2028

  San Joaquin County, CA – Last week, the 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 across California, ratified a new three-year union contract with the...

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• Press Coverage | May 16, 2025

  ‘I feel very scared’: Some Americans fear losing coverage due to proposed Medicaid cuts

  Key components of the bill to fund President Donald Trump's agenda looks to provide major tax breaks by cutting spending elsewhere, including massive cuts to Medicaid. Medicaid is a joint federal and state health insurance program for disabled and low-income Americans....

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• Union Updates | May 16, 2025

  San Joaquin In-Home Supportive Services (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 San Joaquin County, approximately 8,250 IHSS workers provide long-term care services—including household...

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• Press Statement | May 15, 2025

  Statement from Arnulfo De La Cruz, President of SEIU Local 2015, and Doug Moore, Executive Director of UDW, on Governor Newsom’s May Revise Budget Proposal

  “As President of SEIU Local 2015 and Executive Director of UDW/AFSCME Local 3930 respectively, representing over 700,000 long-term care workers across California, we want to be crystal clear: proposed cuts to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) and Medi-Cal are unacceptable, shortsighted,...

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• Press Statement | May 14, 2025

  May Revise Protects the Wealthy And Fails to Address Working People’s Struggles in California

  State Budget Proposal Echoes Federal Proposals SEIU Members Are Fighting Against   SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California - 750,000 workers strong - today called out the hypocrisy in a state budget that takes money and services from the same working class Californians who ...

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• Press Coverage | May 14, 2025

  Medicaid cuts threaten California’s in-home caregivers

  

  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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