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• Press Coverage | June 4, 2020

  Caregivers See Threats from COVID-19 and Budget Cuts

  

  As California reopens, essential home care workers may have their hours cut. For workers who provide in-home care for disabled and elderly individuals, reopening the economy is a risky proposition. As a low-paid workforce, they are particularly vulnerable to both exploitation and infection....

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | May 28, 2020

  Coronavirus pone a trabajadores de asilos al filo de la navaja

  

  Aman su trabajo esencial, pero al mismo tiempo han sido de los más impactados por la pandemia. Roberta Rodríguez, una enfermera asistente que se contagió de coronavirus en un asilo de la ciudad de Santa Ana donde trabaja, pasó noches...

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• Covid-19 News | May 18, 2020

  Understaffing at nursing homes may be making coronavirus crisis worse: “It makes me mad and it makes me scared”

  Out of more than 89,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States, over 28,000 are connected to nursing homes, CBS News has confirmed. And a lack of staff at these facilities may have made the problem worse...

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• Press Release | May 14, 2020

  Nursing Home Workers and California’s Largest Union – SEIU Local 2015 – Participate in a “National Day of Action” in Honor of National Skilled Nursing Care Week

  Nursing Home Workers Assemble Caregivers Caravan to Make Stops at Nursing Homes to Support Workers and Residents as Employers Neglect to Do Their Part to Flatten the Curve Los Angeles, CA -- May 14 -- Today, Service Employees International Union...
• Press Release | May 11, 2020

  California’s Largest Union, Nursing Home Workers, and Elected Leaders Call for Overhaul of Nursing Home Industry as Covid Deaths Continue to Climb

  Short-Staffing, Lack of PPE, and Inconsistent Testing are Symptoms of Larger Structural Flaws, Urges Government, Industry and Labor Unity to Improve Care and Working Conditions Los Angeles, CA -- May 11, 2020  -- The President of California’s largest labor union,...
• Medium | May 10, 2020

  California: Seniors and People with Disabilities Do Not Want To Be Tracked. Do Not Threaten Their Quality Care and Privacy #StopEVV

  Imagine being required by law to carry a device with you 24/7 that tracks everywhere you go, everything you do, and shares your information with multi-billion dollar companies. This is a reality that seniors and people with disabilities are currently...

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• Covid-19 News | May 9, 2020

  Focus on nursing home workers amid continued virus outbreaks

  For nearly two months, many nursing homes nationwide have been on virtual lockdown.  Families of residents are not allowed inside, vendors have to drop deliveries outside and the only people coming in and out are health care workers and assistants. ...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | May 3, 2020

  ‘It’s been a nightmare.’ Inside Chatsworth nursing home’s struggle to contain its coronavirus outbreak

  

  The 132-bed Stoney Point Healthcare Center has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak. For several days, Lisa Cook had no communication with her 62-year-old husband, who was confined to Chatsworth’s Stoney Point nursing home after a stroke left him...

  Nursing HomesKim EvonCovid
• Covid-19 News | Issues | May 2, 2020

  This nursing home had California’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak. ‘We weren’t prepared’

  The toll is grim at the Redwood Springs Healthcare Center in Visalia, site of California’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak in a nursing home. As of Thursday, 115 residents had tested positive for COVID-19, 61 staff were infected and 26 residents were...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | May 1, 2020

  Afraid For Their Health And Lacking PPE, Black Homecare Workers Feel Left Behind In The COVID Pandemic

  

  ESSENCE spoke to members of SEIU Local 2015 about the challenges they’ve faced at work and at home in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Jennifer Washington acknowledges being scared at first, not knowing what to expect when COVID-19, the...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | April 23, 2020

  April Verrett on Leading the Nursing Home Workers at the Center of the Coronavirus Pandemic

  

  With outbreaks of COVID-19 at skilled nursing facilities around the state, April Verrett, President of SEIU 2015, talks to Marisa and Scott about the members she represents and efforts to protect them at their job. She also discusses her childhood...

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