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• Press Coverage | April 2, 2025

  News Coverage of Rally in Delano to Honor Cesar Chavez and Support Immigrant Rights

  

  People from across California gathered in Delano on March 31 to demonstrate their solidarity with immigrant communities and to celebrate former civil rights advocate Cesar Chavez, who once led a five-year strike challenging California farmers in Delano, demanding fair wages...

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• Press Coverage | April 1, 2025

  There’s already a caregiver crisis. So who will take care of Mom if immigrant workers get deported?

  As the first baby boomers turn 80 this year, the demand for home healthcare workers is expected to surge. At the same time, the Trump administration is ramping up its campaign to deport immigrants, who make up about one-third of such...

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• Press Coverage | April 1, 2025

  Is Donald Trump watching? The U.S. is facing a massive healthcare crisis, without immigrants, there’s no one to care for the elderly 

  

  America is racing towards a home healthcare disaster, according to a report. As the population in the US ages, the nation confronts an alarming task: employing sufficient personnel to take care of the elderly, as per Off The Front Page...

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• Press Coverage | March 29, 2025

  There’s already a caregiver crisis. So who will take care of Mom if immigrant workers get deported?

  

  There will be 9.3 million job openings for direct-care workers in the home healthcare sector over the next decade, research says  As the first baby boomers turn 80 this year, the demand for home healthcare workers is expected to surge....

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• Press Coverage | March 27, 2025

  Shasta County’s IHSS Workers are Asking for a Livable Wage. Here’s What You Need to Know.

  

  Amidst a County-wide healthcare shortage, more than 4,000 IHSS workers are serving on the frontlines for $18.10 an hour. They’re negotiating for more. In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers rallied outside Shasta’s Administrative Building for the second time this year on...

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• Press Release | March 20, 2025

  Trump’s Dept. of Education Shutdown Advances Billionaire Agenda, Making Our Students & Schools Pay

  SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California today rebuked Trump’s Executive Order attempting to shut down the U.S. Department of Education in all but name without Congressional approval. According to Ed Source, California schools received $8 billion in federal funding last budget year,...

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• Press Coverage | March 19, 2025

  News Coverage, Home Care Workers Advance Plan to Protect Life-Saving Care for Seniors and People with Disabilities: Fight Federal Cuts to Medi-Cal, Strengthen In-Home Supportive Services

  Sacramento, CA – Home care workers were joined today by Assemblymember Matt Haney for a news conference celebrating a critical step forward for their plan to protect the life-saving care that 829,000 seniors and people with disabilities depend on in California:...

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• Press Coverage | March 18, 2025

  News Coverage of the Hands off Medicaid Rallies in Southern California

  ABC7: Hands off Medicaid RallyConcerns over potential Medicaid cuts have spurred rallies and demonstrations across the state and the country. In the Inland Empire, Representative Pete Aguilar held an event Tuesday in San Bernardino. And the SEIU staged a rally...
• Press Coverage | March 12, 2025

  If Trump cuts Medicaid, this California Republican’s House seat would be imperiled

  

  Rep. David Valadao faced a no-win decision last month: Fall into line behind President Trump and vote for a budget resolution that would almost certainly cut into Medicaid funding, risking his constituents’ wrath; or vote against it, catapulting his party...

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• Press Coverage | March 12, 2025

  California has known that disabled people need help in fires. After LA, can it better prepare for the next one?

  

  When strong winds shattered the windows on the top floor of Nancy Busacca’s Pasadena home, Michelle Hollis knew it was time to go.  Hollis, Busacca’s caretaker for the past year, packed the essentials. She tried to remain as calm as...

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• Press Release | March 11, 2025

  Inyo County home care providers–mostly women of color–continue negotiations for a new contract around healthcare and wages.

  Inyo County, CA—Today, Inyo In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers—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 nursing home workers and home care providers—gathered at...

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