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• Press Release | June 28, 2022

  Home Care Workers Rally at the San Benito County Board of Supervisors’ Office in Escalation of their Contract Bargaining Efforts

  Members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 long-term care workers in California, rallied for improved healthcare and training for essential in-home caregivers in San Benito.  San Benito, CA, Tuesday, June 28th – Today,...

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• Press Coverage | June 27, 2022

  An Arizona Home Care Worker Speaks on the Dark Side of the Profession

  

  “There’s no middle class anymore when it comes to home care.”  Joan Steede has worked in the homecare industry for around 30 years. She’s spent the last decade providing hospice home care in the Phoenix area. She visits people’s homes and...

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• Media Advisory | June 27, 2022

  Home Care Providers of San Benito County Rally at Board of Supervisors to Advance Contract Bargaining Efforts

  Members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 nursing home and home care workers, will rally outside the Board of Supervisors, sharing personal stories and experiences as essential workers.  WHEN:         Tuesday, June...

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• Press Release | June 27, 2022

  Two Leaders Who Champion Racial, Economic Justice Unanimously Elected to Top Positions at SEIU

  

  Executive Board Approves President Mary Kay Henry’s Nominations of April Verrett as Secretary-Treasurer, Joseph Bryant as Executive Vice President WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Service Employees International Union’s International Executive Board voted unanimously Friday to elect April Verrett as Secretary-Treasurer and Joseph...
• Press Coverage | June 23, 2022

  Extra Edition: Dealing with the Nursing Home Crisis

  At the beginning of the pandemic, nursing homes became the epicenter of Covid-19 deaths. This crisis had a disproportionate impact on facilities that serve predominantly Latinos and African Americans. Nursing home workers are feeling demoralized and burned out and thousands...

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• Press Release | June 21, 2022

  Nursing Home Workers to Protest at Providence Home and Community Care facilities — California’s Largest Nursing Home Operator — In Coordinated Picket

  As workers continue to flee the nursing home industry, Providence employees across California will unite in coordinated pickets to improve conditions  10-day intent to picket delivered on June 19th, with actions—including 8 pickets—slated for June 29th at nearly 20 facilities...

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• Press Coverage | June 20, 2022

  A un paso de mejorar el cuidado de pacientes y trabajadores en los asilos y centros de la tercera edad

  

  La semana pasada la legislatura de California aprobó un presupuesto estatal de $300 mil millones el cual está en espera de ser firmado por el gobernador Gavin Newsom antes del 25 de junio. El presupuesto incluye $10 millones que ayudarán...

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• Press Coverage | June 16, 2022

  In California, It Barely Pays to Take Care of Elders in Need at Home

  

  This article also appeared in Sacramento News and Review here.   Sydney O’Connor’s clients have disparate needs. One, a double transplant survivor who is almost blind, requires assistance for most of the critical transactions in his life, including paying bills and staying current...

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• Press Release | June 16, 2022

  Trinity County In-Home Care Providers – Mostly Women – Achieve Wage Increases and Stronger Benefits in New Union Contract

  A victory in the Union’s statewide campaign to raise wages for these heroes; Trinity County becomes first jurisdiction in California to offer home delivery of critical PPE to care providers Trinity County, CA – SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest...

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• Press Coverage | June 9, 2022

  June 8th: California Nursing Home Workers Demand Industry Wide Standards, Seat at the Table to Address Staffing Crisis and Low Wages

  Members of SEIU 2015 mobilized across California to address dangerously low staffing levels and low wages. Part of a national, coordinated campaign across 12+ states, this is the fifth statewide day of action calling for improvements in California’s nursing homes...

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• Press Release | June 9, 2022

  SEIU Members Power Primary Victories for Candidates Committed to Workers & Communities, Over Corporate-Backed Candidates

  Sacramento, CA – SEIU members played a decisive role in boosting candidates committed to workers and our communities over corporate-backed politicians. SEIU members work hard to elect candidates who share our values, stick up for workers, and believe in investing in...

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