Author: Brandon Lim

• Union Updates | Campaigns | May 23, 2025

  No state budget cuts to long-term care!

  Governor Newsom’s recent budget proposal is an attack on hundreds of thousands of Californians who rely on long-term care services and the caregivers who make that care possible.  Instead of balancing the budget on the backs of low-income older adults,...
• Victory | Press Release | May 19, 2025

  San Joaquin County home care workers—mostly women of color—ratify new union contract, raising wages to more than $20 an hour by 2028

  San Joaquin County, CA – Last week, the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than half a million workers across California, ratified a new three-year union contract with the...

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• Union Updates | May 16, 2025

  San Joaquin In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Campaign Updates

  

  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a social service that allows people who need long-term care to receive it in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In San Joaquin County, approximately 8,250 IHSS workers provide long-term care services—including household...

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• Victory | Press Release | April 24, 2025

  San Joaquin County home care workers—mostly women of color—reach tentative agreement with Board of Supervisors on new union contract

  If ratified, IHSS workers will be on a path to $20/hour by 2028 San Joaquin County, CA – In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than half a million workers...

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• Press Release | March 19, 2025

  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  

  SEIU CaliforniaFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 19, 2025 Watch press conference recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7_iLEUJ64 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...

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• Union Updates | March 17, 2025

  Shasta In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Campaign Updates

  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a social service that allows people who need long-term care to receive it in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In Shasta County, approximately 4,300 IHSS workers provide long-term care services—including household work,...

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• Press Release | Union Updates | March 11, 2025

  New survey reveals widespread impact of low wages among Shasta’s 4,300 home care workers, worsening county’s care crisis

  Workers continue urging County Supervisors to address crisis by raising wages Shasta County, CA – Today, Shasta’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than half a million workers across...

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• Issues | March 9, 2025

  Take action to protect Medicaid

  

  Despite overwhelming public support for Medicaid, the Trump Administration and his allies in Congress are proposing to gut $880 billion from this essential healthcare program in order to pay for major tax cuts for ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations. Cutting Medicaid...

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• Union Updates | March 9, 2025

  February 2025 Member Newsletter

  The past month has shown that we’ve got our work cut out for us as we continue our push for justice – our embrace of diversity and accessibility, our demand for just immigration policy, our efforts to win unions for...

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• Union Updates | January 31, 2025

  January 2025 Member Newsletter

  As we enter Black History Month, we are reminded of the Black women who organized 74,000 Los Angeles home care workers in 1999 to form what is now the statewide union of SEIU 2015.  Their courage and resilience together with...

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• Union Updates | December 10, 2024

  Siskiyou In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Campaign Updates

  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a social service that allows people who need long-term care to receive it in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In Siskiyou County, approximately 490 IHSS workers provide long-term care services—including household work,...

  Region 6SiskiyouIHSS