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• Media Advisory | May 27, 2025

  Los Angeles County Home Care Providers–mostly women of color and the county’s largest low-wage workforce–call for county CEO representation at the table and an investment in care at Board of Supervisors. 

  **MEDIA ADVISORY**   In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers speak out again 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.  WHEN: Tuesday, May...

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• Press Coverage | May 23, 2025

  Local in-home support workers at risk due to proposed state budget cuts

  

  Bernadette Walton is a Sacramento resident who is an in-home support service worker for her daughter. She provides for her 11-year-old daughter, who is autistic and needs support at home. Walton said her daughter needs help with everyday living — hygiene,...

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• Press Statement | May 22, 2025

  CA House Republicans Vote to Terminate Health Care for Millions in Dark-of-Night Vote

  Estimated 3,500 Californians Will Die Each Year as a Direct Result of Issa, Kim, Fong, Kiley, LaMalfa, McClintock, Obernolte, Valadao’s VotesReckless Cuts, Emergency Room Wait Times Expected to Skyrocket, Hospitals that Rely on Medi-Cal Funding Could be Shut Down $800...

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• Press Release | May 20, 2025

  Fresno County Home Care Providers–mostly women of color–ratify new union contract, bringing higher wages, healthcare, and more!

  Fresno County, CA –Fresno County In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union, representing half a million nursing home workers and home care providers—ratified a new union contract...
• Press Coverage | May 20, 2025

  This Weeks Medicaid Actions Across California

  

  23 ABC News Bakersfield:Healthcare advocates rally outside of Rep. David Valadao's office in Bakersfield today. https://youtu.be/ROTBcG-EWVA KBAK Eyewitness News at Noon:Mock funeral held to highlight cuts to Medicaid and Health Care https://youtu.be/1ErjPTLPtRo NBC Bakersfield:‘Medicaid cuts kill’: Healthcare rallies continue, this...

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• Victory | Press Coverage | May 20, 2025

  Fresno County Board of Supervisors approves new contract for home care workers boosting wages over $18

  

  The Fresno County Board of Supervisors approved a new contract for the county’s thousands of home care workers, marking the end of over two years of negotiations. The Fresno County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a new three-year contract for...

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• Press Coverage | May 16, 2025

  ‘I feel very scared’: Some Americans fear losing coverage due to proposed Medicaid cuts

  Key components of the bill to fund President Donald Trump's agenda looks to provide major tax breaks by cutting spending elsewhere, including massive cuts to Medicaid. Medicaid is a joint federal and state health insurance program for disabled and low-income Americans....

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• Press Statement | May 15, 2025

  Statement from Arnulfo De La Cruz, President of SEIU Local 2015, and Doug Moore, Executive Director of UDW, on Governor Newsom’s May Revise Budget Proposal

  “As President of SEIU Local 2015 and Executive Director of UDW/AFSCME Local 3930 respectively, representing over 700,000 long-term care workers across California, we want to be crystal clear: proposed cuts to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) and Medi-Cal are unacceptable, shortsighted,...

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• Press Statement | May 14, 2025

  May Revise Protects the Wealthy And Fails to Address Working People’s Struggles in California

  State Budget Proposal Echoes Federal Proposals SEIU Members Are Fighting Against   SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California - 750,000 workers strong - today called out the hypocrisy in a state budget that takes money and services from the same working class Californians who ...

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• Press Coverage | May 14, 2025

  Medicaid cuts threaten California’s in-home caregivers

  

  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 Statement | May 13, 2025

  SEIU California Pushes Back on Department of Homeland Security’s Bullying “Investigation” of California’s Safety Net

  LOS ANGELES, CA – David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW (United Service Workers West), made the following statement on the announcement of the Department of Homeland Security’s investigation into California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI):  “Donald Trump’s...

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