Author: alston

• Medium | August 15, 2017

  Our Justice Agenda: Ending Cash Bail

  After a hard day of work, our members still go home to yet another challenge — facing the realities that trouble their communities and significantly impact their quality of life. Hence, SEIU 2015 has declared its commitment to some of the top...

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• Medium | August 1, 2017

  An Open Letter To Fellow Homecare Workers

  Dear Brothers and Sisters, Homecare is just like any other industry and should be treated with the respect and dignity that it deserves. Our employers treat us the way we allow them to treat us, if we continue with this...

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• Medium | July 10, 2017

  We Fought and We Won for Seniors, People with Disabilities, and their Caregivers

  We trust them to take care of our grandparents, our parents, our children, and even us. They know the most intimate information about their care recipients, including what medications need to be taken and what foods work with specific diets....

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• Medium | July 7, 2017

  Trumpcare Defeated for Now

  With the apparent demise of Trumpcare, we have shown the power that ordinary people have to stop disastrous policy. However, let us not be mistaken. This victory is not final. The Republican leadership in Washington and their plutocratic backers do...

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• Medium | June 20, 2017

  Without The ACA, My Husband Would Be Condemned To His Grave

  “…‘til death do us part.” That was part of the vows I made to my husband on our wedding day. And never did I think that Republicans would be the force that tried to come between my husband and me...

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• Medium | June 8, 2017

  In California We Must Take Care Of Our Own

  Graciela Pennington is a warm and compassionate person, the kind of person you’d want to be by your bedside in your last hours. But in the nursing home where she works as a Certified Nursing Assistant, there are so few...

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• Medium | January 1, 2017

  The Next Four Years Won’t be Easy — Are You Ready for the Fight Forward?

  Over the next 100 hours we will see our nation rise in unity, sisterhood, and brotherhood. We will have the opportunity to remind ourselves what being American is truly about — speaking up for what is right, fighting for our...

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• Medium | December 27, 2016

  The Fight of Our Lives: We Won’t Let a New Administration Take Away What We’ve Fought Hard to Earn

  From what we’ve seen so far, the next 4 years will be a difficult time for working families. With an incoming U.S. Presidential Administration that is pro-corporation and anti-worker, every appointment made so far shows us that we’re going to...

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• Medium | November 30, 2016

  Our hat’s off to Caregivers!

  As National Family Caregivers Month comes to an end this November, we want to take the time to recognize caregivers for all the work they do 24/7, 365 days of the year. Here are the stories of a few family...

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• Medium | November 21, 2016

  Trump won. What’s Next?

  Leaders of California’s largest home care worker organization hosted discussion about what a Trump Presidency means and how to play a role in advancing agenda of working families

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• Medium | November 4, 2016

  This Election Caregivers Turn Out to Vote for Hope, Not Hate

  They check on your father or grandfather’s feeding tube and oxygen tank. Your ill grandmother depends on them for her medication and critical doctor appointments. You trust them to take care of your son or daughter while you are at...

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