Category: Press Releases

• Press Statement | April 10, 2025

  SEIU Members Will Hold Republican House Members Accountable for Rushed and Reckless Vote to Terminate Healthcare for Millions of Californians

  SACRAMENTO, CA – The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California slammed today’s vote in Congress to rush through a budget plan that recklessly slashes $880 billion from Medicaid (known as Medi-Cal in California):  Carmen Roberts, SEIU Local 2015 Executive Vice...

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• Press Statement | April 10, 2025

  Statement from President of SEIU Local 2015 Arnulfo De La Cruz on Texas Ruling Striking Down Federal Nursing Home Staffing Standards

  Ruling overturns first-ever national safe staffing requirement, jeopardizing care for older adults, people with disabilities, and the workers who provide essential care. Press Contact: DKC News, SEIU@dkcnews.comApril 10, 2025 “Last year, we achieved the first ever national standard on ensuring...

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• Press Statement | April 8, 2025

  Trump Uses IRS to Target Tax-Paying Families,Exposing the Lies Behind MAGA Deportation Machine

  SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California responded to the reported agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to share sensitive information about taxpayers and their families with the Trump deportation machine. David Huerta, President of SEIU California and...

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• Press Release | March 25, 2025

  New survey reveals widespread impact of low wages among Alameda County’s over 30,000 home care workers, worsening county’s care crisis

  Workers urge County Supervisors to address crisis by raising wages 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 a million workers across...

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• Media | Press Release | March 25, 2025

  New survey reveals widespread impact of low wages among Santa Clara’s over 36,000 home care workers, worsening county’s care crisis

  Workers urge County Supervisors to address crisis by raising wages Santa Clara County, CA – Today, Santa Clara’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than half a million workers...

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• Press Release | March 20, 2025

  Trump’s Dept. of Education Shutdown Advances Billionaire Agenda, Making Our Students & Schools Pay

  SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California today rebuked Trump’s Executive Order attempting to shut down the U.S. Department of Education in all but name without Congressional approval. According to Ed Source, California schools received $8 billion in federal funding last budget year,...

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• Press Release | March 19, 2025

  Home Care Workers Advance Plan to Protect Life-Saving Care for Seniors and People with Disabilities: Fight Federal Cuts to Medi-Cal, Strengthen In-Home Supportive Services  

  SEIU CaliforniaFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 19, 2025 Watch press conference recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7_iLEUJ64 Sacramento, CA – Home care workers were joined today by Assemblymember Matt Haney for a news conference celebrating a critical step forward for their plan to protect the life-saving care that...

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• Press Release | March 11, 2025

  Inyo County home care providers–mostly women of color–continue negotiations for a new contract around healthcare and wages.

  Inyo County, CA—Today, Inyo In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers—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 nursing home workers and home care providers—gathered at...

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• Press Release | Union Updates | March 11, 2025

  New survey reveals widespread impact of low wages among Shasta’s 4,300 home care workers, worsening county’s care crisis

  Workers continue urging County Supervisors to address crisis by raising wages Shasta County, CA – Today, Shasta’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than half a million workers across...

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• Press Statement | February 25, 2025

  CA Workers to House Republicans:You Can’t Hide from Vote to Slash Health Care for Millions  

  SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California responded to the party-line vote on the Republican House budget resolution today, which pays for Trump’s billionaire tax cuts by slashing $880 billion from health care and safety net programs that more than 15 million Californians...

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• Press Release | February 19, 2025

  “Care and the Bear” Event Brings Together Hundreds of Caregivers, Legislators in Celebration of National Caregivers Day

  Sacramento, CA – Tuesday in Sacramento hundreds of child care providers and In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers came together with members of the Legislative Women’s Caucus at The California Museum for a celebration ahead of National Caregivers Day on February 21...

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