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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...

  Fresno County Board of SupervisorsRegion 3Wage Increase
• 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....

  Republican Budget CutsMedicaid Cuts
• 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,...

  Arnulfo De La CruzBudget CutsLivable Wage
• 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 ...

  Republican Budget CutsDavid Huerta
• 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...

  IHSSMedicaid CutsRepublican Budget Cuts
• 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...

  ICEImmigrant CommunitiesDavid HuertaDept. Homeland Security
• Press Coverage | May 8, 2025

  The Unkindest Cut: Slashing Medicaid Threatens the Medically Vulnerable

  

  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...

  Tulare CountyRegion 6Medicaid CutsRepublican Budget CutsIHSS
• Press Coverage | May 7, 2025

  News Coverage of Longtime Santa Cruz resident’s immigration detention sparks protests ahead of court hearing in Washington state

  

  Cliona Ward, a longtime Santa Cruz resident, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on April 21, 2025, after returning from Ireland where she was visiting her sick father. Lookout Santa Cruz:Longtime Santa Cruz resident's immigration detention sparks...

  Region 3Santa CruzImmigrationICEGreen Card
• Press Coverage | May 5, 2025

  Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

  

  Rachel Smith has a psychology degree and gave up her job doing nails to take care of her son with cerebral palsy. She’s one of 11 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers who spoke at an April 8 Shasta County Board...

  IHSSShasta Board of SupervisorsLiving Wage
• Press Coverage | May 5, 2025

  Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

  More than 4,000 Shasta County community members work for a program known as In-Home Health Services. While IHSS workers are legally allowed to strike once their contract expires, local workers are pursuing other forms of negotiation instead — out of...

  Region 6Shasta County
• Press Coverage | May 1, 2025

  Statewide Coverage of 2025 May Day Actions

  

  May 1st, 2025, members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union, and California’s largest labor union representing more than half a million care workers across California—are gathering for May Day also known as International Workers’ Day to...

  May DayImmigration RightsFederal Workers