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• Press Coverage | May 8, 2025

  The Unkindest Cut: Slashing Medicaid Threatens the Medically Vulnerable

  

  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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• Press Coverage | May 7, 2025

  News Coverage of Longtime Santa Cruz resident’s immigration detention sparks protests ahead of court hearing in Washington state

  

  Cliona Ward, a longtime Santa Cruz resident, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on April 21, 2025, after returning from Ireland where she was visiting her sick father. Lookout Santa Cruz:Longtime Santa Cruz resident's immigration detention sparks...

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• Press Coverage | May 5, 2025

  Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

  

  Rachel Smith has a psychology degree and gave up her job doing nails to take care of her son with cerebral palsy. She’s one of 11 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers who spoke at an April 8 Shasta County Board...

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• Press Coverage | May 5, 2025

  Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

  More than 4,000 Shasta County community members work for a program known as In-Home Health Services. While IHSS workers are legally allowed to strike once their contract expires, local workers are pursuing other forms of negotiation instead — out of...

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• Press Coverage | May 1, 2025

  Statewide Coverage of 2025 May Day Actions

  

  May 1st, 2025, 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 care workers across California—are gathering for May Day also known as International Workers’ Day to...

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• Media Advisory | April 29, 2025

  Join us in Santa Cruz County to celebrate International Workers’ Day!

  **MEDIA ADVISORY**  WHEN:Thursday, May 1st, 4:30 PM WHERE:358 Main Street, Watsonville 95076 WHO:Long-term care workers (members of SEIU 2015); Supporters and allies of the SEIU Local 2015 community. WHAT:Santa Cruz In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers and nursing home...

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• Media Advisory | April 29, 2025

  Join us in Monterey to celebrate International Workers’ Day!

  **MEDIA ADVISORY**  WHEN:Thursday, May 1st, 12:00 PM WHERE:334 Monterey Street, Salinas 93901 WHO:Long-term care workers (members of SEIU 2015); Supporters and allies of the SEIU Local 2015 community. WHAT:Monterey In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers and nursing home workers—members...

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• Media Advisory | April 29, 2025

  Join us in Fresno to celebrate International Workers’ Day!

  **MEDIA ADVISORY**  WHEN:Thursday, May 1st, 4:00 PM WHERE:Blackstone & Alluvial, Fresno 93650 WHO:Long-term care workers (members of SEIU 2015); Supporters and allies of the SEIU Local 2015 community. WHAT:Fresno In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers and nursing home workers—members...

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• Press Coverage | April 28, 2025

  Univision: Interview with SEIU 2015 President Arnulfo De La Cruz on Medicaid

  A clip featuring SEIU President Arnulfo De La Cruz being interviewed by Univision's statewide political show on why Medicaid is so important and we need to protect Medicaid. Un clip con el presidente de SEIU, Arnulfo De La Cruz, siendo...

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• Press Coverage | April 25, 2025

  ‘I shouldn’t have to fight my own government.’ Activists and caregivers rally for Medicaid in Clovis

  

  A pro-Medicaid rally Thursday organized by Central Valley disability rights activists and caregivers culminated in a roughly 20-minute conversation between a handful of protesters and workers outside U.S. Rep. Vince Fong’s field office in Clovis. Disability Voices United, a statewide...

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• Press Coverage | April 23, 2025

  News Roundup from our Hands Off Medicaid actions across California

  

  ABC 10Hundreds protest possible Medi-Cal cuts outside Republican Congressional offices MODESTO, Calif. -- Hundreds of demonstrators are gathering outside California Republican Congressional offices this week to protest efforts to cut Medicaid funding. Read more... NBC 4 Los AngelesRally against proposed...

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