Year: 2025

• 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 Coverage | April 8, 2025

  Rep. Mike Thompson, providers and patients warn about healthcare cuts

  On Friday, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04), Chief Behavioral Officer/Chief Community Health Officer for CommuniCare+OLE Health Sara Gavin, Interim Vice Chancellor of UC Davis Health Dr. Bruce Lee Hall, Yolo County Supervisor Sheila Allen, patient advocate Kate Laddish, and Susanna Hernandez...

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• Press Coverage | April 8, 2025

  Shasta County supervisors meet in temporary location and see high turnout

  

  SHASTA LAKE, Calif. — The Shasta County Board of Supervisors convened their first meeting in a temporary location at the Shasta Lake City Council Chambers on Tuesday, drawing a significant crowd despite a routine agenda.  The regular board chambers in downtown...

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• Press Coverage | April 7, 2025

  A Mother’s Battle to Protect Her Son’s Care

  

  Medicaid is a lifeline for people with disabilities like Josh Lockwood-Wewer. As GOP lawmakers push for cuts, his mother is taking a stand. There is not much Josh Lockwood-Wewer loves more than Disney. The affable 33-year-old speaks almost exclusively in the...

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• Press Coverage | April 3, 2025

  Have Skilled Nursing Facilities Become Dumping Grounds for the Mentally Ill?

  

  When the 911 call comes from inside the nursing home, health care workers are sometimes the victims. A couple of years ago, the trickle became a flood. Christina Lockyer-White had long known that the skilled nursing facility where she worked in...

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• Press Coverage | April 2, 2025

  News Coverage of Rally in Delano to Honor Cesar Chavez and Support Immigrant Rights

  

  People from across California gathered in Delano on March 31 to demonstrate their solidarity with immigrant communities and to celebrate former civil rights advocate Cesar Chavez, who once led a five-year strike challenging California farmers in Delano, demanding fair wages...

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• Press Coverage | April 1, 2025

  There’s already a caregiver crisis. So who will take care of Mom if immigrant workers get deported?

  As the first baby boomers turn 80 this year, the demand for home healthcare workers is expected to surge. At the same time, the Trump administration is ramping up its campaign to deport immigrants, who make up about one-third of such...

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• Press Coverage | April 1, 2025

  Is Donald Trump watching? The U.S. is facing a massive healthcare crisis, without immigrants, there’s no one to care for the elderly 

  

  America is racing towards a home healthcare disaster, according to a report. As the population in the US ages, the nation confronts an alarming task: employing sufficient personnel to take care of the elderly, as per Off The Front Page...

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• Press Coverage | March 29, 2025

  There’s already a caregiver crisis. So who will take care of Mom if immigrant workers get deported?

  

  There will be 9.3 million job openings for direct-care workers in the home healthcare sector over the next decade, research says  As the first baby boomers turn 80 this year, the demand for home healthcare workers is expected to surge....

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