Category: Press Coverage

• The Sacramento Bee | January 14, 2025

  Home care workers help California’s aging population. Should they be covered by state unions?

  

  Home care workers who provide assistance to elderly and disabled Californians could see more wage equality, according to a recent labor report, by shifting contract negotiations to the state level instead of bargaining individually with California’s 56 individual counties. Currently,...

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• Rollcall.com | January 9, 2025

  Trump’s immigration plans could imperil long-term care workforce

  

  Demand for direct care workers will grow by 35 percent to 41 percent between 2022 and 2037, according to some projections. President-elect Donald Trump’s vowed crackdown on immigration could strain an already struggling elder care workforce that relies on foreign-born...

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