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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 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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• Press Statement | April 18, 2025

  Statement from Arnulfo De La Cruz, President of SEIU 2015, on RFK Jr.’s harmful autism comments

  “As the president of a union representing more than half a million long-term care workers — many of whom love and care for people with disabilities, including autism — I know that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent remarks...

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• Press Coverage | April 18, 2025

  News Coverage of Hands off our Medicaid rallies

  

  CBS: Hands off Medicaid Rally in Bakersfield https://youtu.be/8wpziHSouas?si=qBx_00TfoegALS5I Fox News: Hands off Medicaid Rally in Bakersfield https://youtu.be/eVoCwc8gCF8?si=KPtAQ3TINm0TLuFj

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• Victory | Press Coverage | April 18, 2025

  Fresno County reaches tentative agreement with care workers

  FRESNO - SEIU Local 2015 has reached a tentative agreement with Fresno County to boost thousands of home care workers' wages and benefits, potentially putting a cap on strenuous negotiations that dragged on for over two years. If approved by...

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• Press Coverage | April 16, 2025

  LA County budget proposal reflects wildfire effects, landmark sex abuse settlement, federal funding losses

  

  Most Los Angeles County departments would be required to reduce spending by 3% under an austere budget proposal unveiled Monday by the chief executive officer. The $47.9 billion budget plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 reflects “extraordinary...

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• Press Release | April 16, 2025

  Los Angeles Home Care Providers–mostly women of color and the county’s largest low-wage workforce–left behind in the county’s budget presentation

  IHSS caregivers note that the county is responsible for lifting their wages and insist that paying for the county’s sex abuse lawsuits should not fall on their backs. LOS ANGELES, CA—Yesterday, In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers—members of SEIU...

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• Victory | Press Coverage | April 16, 2025

  Fresno County’s 25,000 care workers set to get raise under new deal

  

  SEIU Local 2015, which represents Fresno County’s over 25,000 IHSS workers, reached a tentative agreement with the county after over two years of bargaining. SEIU Local 2015 has reached a tentative agreement with Fresno County to boost thousands of home...

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• Press Coverage | April 15, 2025

  Fresno County in-home caregivers to receive pay increase, union says

  

  After two years of negotiations, thousands of Fresno County in-home care workers are poised to secure a pay bump and increased medical benefits. The union that represents more than 500,000 caregivers across California announced a tentative contract agreement with the...

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• Victory | Press Release | April 15, 2025

  Fresno County home care providers—mostly women and women of color— reach a tentative agreement with Board of Supervisors

  If ratified, caregivers are expected to earn $18.35 by September 2025 This milestone comes after caregivers used their collective power last November to elect care champions to the Board  Fresno County, CA – The In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers of...

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