Author: alston

• Medium | September 25, 2020

  What Biden’s Care Plan means for Caregivers

  In previous election cycles, long term and senior caregivers have taken the back seat to other pressing issues. This year, with the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately threatening seniors and individuals with pre-existing conditions, long term caregiving has been given a spotlight...

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• Press Release | September 17, 2020

  SEIU Local 2015 California’s Largest Union Launches Voter Contact Efforts In Eight Different Languages

  Los Angeles, CA -- September 17, 2020  -- SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest labor union representing 400,000 nursing home and home care workers throughout California and one of the largest immigrant unions in the country, has officially launched its sweeping...
• Covid-19 News | September 10, 2020

  The Striking Racial Divide in How Covid-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes

  Homes with a significant number of black and Latino residents have been twice as likely to be hit by the coronavirus as those where the population is overwhelmingly white.

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• Medium | September 4, 2020

  Senator Mitchell, Council Ransom, and SMUD Board Fishman Sign Homecare Workers Day Pledge

  On Home Care 2020, Senator Holly Mitchell, Tracy City Council member Rhodesia Ransom, and SMUD Board member Gregg Fishman are celebrating and recognizing the home care workers united in SEIU Local 2015 and our vital role in the COVID-19 response helping our nation’s seniors and...

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• Covid-19 News | September 4, 2020

  Largest Long-term Care Union Raising Awareness Ahead of Labor Day

  

  The nation's largest long term care union SEIU Local 2015 is raising awareness about the rights of frontline workers with labor day just around the corner. Arnulfo De La Cruz, Executive Vice President of SEIU Local 2015, joined Cheddar to...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | August 24, 2020

  Home Care Workers Are Now Called Essential. But the History of the Profession Shows That the U.S. Has Never Treated Them as Such

  

  Since the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, one of the groups that has been repeatedly identified as “essential” is home care workers, those who provide assistance with activities of daily living to the elderly, chronically ill and persons with disabilities....

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• Covid-19 News | August 24, 2020

  Home Care Workers Are Now Called Essential. But the History of the Profession Shows That the U.S. Has Never Treated Them as Such

  Since the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, one of the groups that has been repeatedly identified as “essential” is home care workers, those who provide assistance with activities of daily living to the elderly, chronically ill and persons with disabilities....

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• Press Coverage | August 13, 2020

  In-home health workers plead for better pay

  

  STOCKTON — Anjeneau Ward, an in-home health care worker, stood before the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors at their Tuesday morning meeting and made a heartfelt plea for a higher wage. “Between paying rent, utilities, back-to-school clothes, back-to-school supplies,...

  Arnulfo De La Cruz
• Press Release | July 24, 2020

  SEIU Local 2015 Members Vote Overwhelmingly to Endorse George Gascon for District Attorney in Los Angeles County

  California’s Largest Union Endorses Criminal Justice Reform Candidate in the Midst of the Black Lives Matter Movement Los Angeles, CA -- July 24 -- Today, SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest union representing over 400,000 long term care workers, members voted...

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• Covid-19 News | July 21, 2020

  UCSF study shows health workers grappling with pandemic anxiety: ‘It’s exhausting’

  Dr. Robert Rodriguez’s anxiety rises and falls with the number of coronavirus cases and deaths. Fear that he could get infected at his San Francisco General Hospital job, or bring the virus home, affects his sleep...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | July 17, 2020

  Coronavirus updates: 366,000 Californians infected, shutdowns ravage local businesses

  

  It was another troubling week in California, as growing infections and hospitalizations prompted state and local officials to announce new widespread closures of businesses and schools across the state to slow the coronavirus pandemic.

  Arnulfo De La Cruz