SEIU 2015 Supports Workers with Increased Wages and Better Working Conditions

In 2018 we have secured major wins for In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) and Nursing Home workers.

Open Letter from SEIU Local 2015 President, Laphonza Butler

Dear SEIU Local 2015 Sisters and Brothers:

Today, this week, this month, has seemed so hard…hard for our members, hard for our families, hard for our communities, and hard for our morals and values as human beings. With rulings of the US Supreme Court that condoned religious bias, thwarted the voices of millions of workers whose lives have improved by being a part of a fighting union, a Presidential Administration that ignores the cries of mothers, fathers, and children, it would be understandable for all of us to be exhausted, frustrated, and feel a sense of hopelessness.

Safe Staffing For Skilled Nursing Facilities

SB 97 is new legislation passed in 2017 that requires all Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) in California to staff at a level of 3.5 direct care hours per patient day (hppd), of which 2.4 hppd must be performed by Certified Nursing Assistant (CNAs).

Paid Sick Days

Major Wins: IHSS Providers Get Paid Sick Leave FAQ. IHSS providers won sick leave legislation because they organized through their union and used that power to lobby in Sacramento for this legislation.

June 2018 Primary Election Results

Happy 3 Years of Victories!

Three years ago, caregivers from across the entire state of California came together under one statewide local. This gave homecare and nursing home workers a stronger voice  — which we have used to win not only for care providers but for the aging and disabled populations, and all working families in the state. Since 2015 to now we’ve grown by over 75,000 long-term workers, making us the largest union in California. We’ve closed contracts that have raised wages, improved benefits, and increased standards for those we care for and and bettered working conditions for providers.In just 2017 alone, we closed 3 IHSS contracts, 44 nursing home contracts, and 5 contracts with private agencies.

Direct Deposit is Available for You

Direct Deposit is an optional way to receive your IHSS/WPCS paycheck.

With Direct Deposit, your IHSS paycheck is deposited directly into your checking or savings account, instead of being mailed to you through the U.S. Post Office.

Laphonza Butler Participates in the KJLH Radio “MLK 50 Legacy” Show Live

The “MLK Legacy” show will be an open panel discussion with other influential community leaders, and will feature live questions from the audience. The main focus of this show will be to reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. King. Throughout the day, KJLH will be playing positive and inspirational music, as well as excerpts from some of Dr. King’s most memorable speeches.

Laphonza Butler Speaks at the Aspen Institute Summit on Inequality & Opportunity

The #AspenOpportunity Summit brings together leading experts to discuss how we can bridge the widening opportunity gap in employment, education, health & more.

Community Tax Preparation Service

Free, community tax preparation services from SEIU Local 2015. At hundreds of locations throughout the state, trained tax preparers will make sure that you get the largest refund possible by taking advantage of every tax credit and deduction you qualify for.

California Gubernatorial Forum On Long Term Care

Tune-in for our Governor’s Forum on Thursday Feb. 8th at 6 PM. Candidates for Governor outline their plans for our state’s aging population. Join the conversation online using #CareCrisisForum

AB 1513: The Fight For All Homecare Workers

Did you know that there is still a home care workforce out there that can only dream about fair compensation, being treated with respect, having a voice and being able to vote on their wages? Unfortunately, this is currently not the reality for private home care aides. They are incredibly isolated and subject to abuse. In addition, homecare workers are geographically spread out and do not have contact with co-workers and often change worksites, moving from private home to private home.

2017 Legislative Priority Updates

As a union of over 325,000 long term care workers across California, we are taking advantage of every opportunity available to us to move our Justice Agenda. We unite other care givers and our communities to support our issues through organizing non-union caregivers, using our contract bargaining to raise standards, electing politicians that will demonstrate our values and act on our issues and through the legislative and state budget process where decisions get made on how the state will spend its resources.

President of SEIU 2015 Laphonza Butler Named Job Quality Fellow By Aspen Institute

CALIFORNIA – Today SEIU 2015’s President Laphonza Butler was named a Job Quality Fellow by the Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) at The Aspen Institute. The Job Quality Fellowship aims to support and strengthen the work of leaders dedicated to expanding access to and availability of better quality jobs in our economy with support from The Prudential Foundation and Ford Foundation.

Labor Day 2017: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement

Join us this Labor Day as we launch our Together We Rise campaign with events throughout the state! — This Labor Day is so much more than a celebration of what unions have represented in history but about how we also create the conditions for the workers of tomorrow. The labor movement that will be relevant for 21st century workers must be one that sits in unfamiliar spaces and helps find solutions for issues of worker justice, immigrant justice, restorative justice, environmental justice, and housing justice. Together we rise!

Certification of Election

Today, SEIU Local 2015’s Member Election Committee certified the election of our union Officers and Executive Board Delegates.  Congratulations to our union’s first Executive Board that will be sworn into office this fall.

Our Justice Agenda

SEIU 2015 is committed to a Justice Agenda that is not just about resisting the moment but investing in the future.

The Local 2015 Member Advisory Committee believes that our mission demands that we fight injustice where we see and experience it. We believe this mission calls on us to fight for our members and all one and a half million long term care workers in California who are not yet members of Local 2015 because all long term care work must be valued and respected.

Victory: Electronic Timesheet Services Now Available for IHSS Workers

Victory! Thanks to the hard work of SEIU 2015 members – 13 counties will now have the option for In-Home Supportive Services Providers (IHSS) to use Electronic Timesheets. Is your county on this list? Find out!

State Budget Victory for Long Term Care Workers

Thanks to the unity of our members across the state, we achieved incredible victories during this year’s state budget process. Thanks to your hard work, California’s 2018 budget was signed today by Governor Jerry Brown and is one that raises up our members, from Home care workers to Skilled Nursing Facility and Assisted Living Center workers. Together, we have amplified the voices and stories of caregivers, consumers, and patients throughout the halls of our state capitol.

June 20: National Call In Day — Your Voice can Save Millions of Lives by Stopping the Healthcare Repeal Bill in the Senate

Dear Brothers & Sisters —

Realizing that we could potentially lose our healthcare all because Republicans in Congress have decided that our health is worth sacrificing in order to give tax breaks to the wealthy is a hard pill to swallow.

However, our voices together can stop the Healthcare Repeal Bill in the Senate and save millions of lives. We can show Republicans what it means to be 325,000 caregivers strong!

Home Care Worker Reacts to Trumpcare: This Is Not What I Voted For

California –  Despite pleas from Americans across the country, today the House voted to approve the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and move forward a cruel Trumpcare Bill. A move which impacts over 24 million Americans as it seeks to gut protections for pre-existing conditions and eliminate services for people with special needs, among other things.

The Resistance is in the Actions We Take When Our Livelihood is at Stake. The Resistance is You, Me… We!

May Day is a day with a lot of significance, but this year I think it’s safe to say it was even more momentous. This year’s International Workers’ Day marked more than the progress of the labor movement and workers’ rights— it stood for the resistance and exemplified how we will continue to stand together, not divided.

An in-home care program for California’s elderly and disabled is constantly at the heart of budget battles. Here’s why

California’s program to provide in-home care for its low-income elderly and disabled residents finds itself once again at the heart of a state budget standoff.

It is familiar territory for the workers, advocates and administrators of the In-Home Supportive Services program. The current flare-up — between the state and county governments over how to divvy up IHSS costs — is the latest example of how California’s signature program, meant to keep people in their communities and out of nursing homes, has continually been the source of budget friction in recent years.

National Call-In Day

House Republicans could bring their disastrous healthcare repeal bill to a vote at any moment. Together, we can stop them and stop this healthcare disaster for working families, children, seniors and people with disabilities.

After Statewide Mobilization, Nursing Home Workers Head to Capitol to Advocate for Safe Staffing Standards at Nursing Homes

This week, nursing home workers throughout California have been participating in a Week of Action where they are looking to generate over 1,000 phone calls to Senators Bill Monning, Holly Mitchell, and Richard Pan urging them to support a budget proposal that would improve nursing home care standards which haven’t been reevaluated in almost two decades. Nursing home workers will also travel to Sacramento Thursday to attend the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services to continue advocating for an updated standard of care.

Nursing Home Workers to Picket 4 Windsor Healthcare Facilities Across California in Protest of Bad Bargaining Practices

SEIU Local 2015 nursing home workers will picket at four Windsor Healthcare Facilities across the state in protest of bad faith bargaining practices. Workers claim management is failing to bargain about livable wages, affordable health care coverage, and are participating in scare tactics, such as telling workers they will be fired, worker intimidation, and coercion. Workers and community allies will gather outside the Sacramento, Petaluma, Salinas, and Hayward facilities today to picket.

Olga Evans: Establish a cap on respite agencies’ administrative costs

You never think it will happen to you. But what happens when it does?

Nursing Home Workers to Picket 4 Windsor Healthcare Facilities Across California in Protest of Bad Bargaining Practices

SEIU Local 2015 nursing home workers will picket at four Windsor Healthcare Facilities across the state in protest of bad faith bargaining practices. Workers claim management is failing to bargain about livable wages, affordable health care coverage, and are participating in scare tactics, such as telling workers they will be fired, worker intimidation, and coercion. Workers and community allies will gather outside the Sacramento, Petaluma, Salinas, and Hayward facilities today to picket.

May Day 2017

On May 1, International Workers’ Day, people across the country will Rise Up! to resist President Trump’s mass deportation forces and oppose the current administration’s scapegoating of immigrant and refugee communities and their attempts to dismantle programs that benefit working families.

State of Resistance: Ten Californians Who Will Take on Trump

Meet the leaders of the West Coast resistance: Jerry Brown, Maria Elena Durazo, Kamala Harris, Julie Su, Xavier Becerra, Kevin de Leon & Anthony Rendon, Anthony Thigpenn, Tom Steyer, Laphonza Butler

State wants counties to pay more for in-home care

Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing shifting part of the burden of funding in-home care for low-income seniors and disabled people back to California’s counties, a move that the state acknowledges would likely cause the localities “financial hardship and cash flow problems.” The counties’ statewide association warns that this could force them to slash spending on other programs or services.

FAQ AB 1217

Tell Congress no new restrictions on IHSS!

Trump won. What’s Next?

SEIU Local 2015 hit the ground running in California this election and accomplished over 43,500 hours of voter contact, elected the first Indian American and second African American female into the U.S. Senate, and celebrated the successful passage of numerous ballot measures that address issues affecting working families. However, with a Trump Administration on the horizon, caregivers are asking, “What’s Next?”

Nursing Home Workers at Windsor Facilities throughout the State Call on Management to Treat Its Workers with Dignity and Respect

Nursing Home Workers at Windsor Facilities throughout the State Call on Management to Treat Its Workers with Dignity and Respect

2016 Election Results

Results from the 2016 elections: national, state, and local.

Know your rights & DACA Q&A

iAmerica wants to be sure you know what your rights are if you are approached by police or ICE. Download these infographics to help you understand what your rights are and what to do in difference situations.

A DIVERSE COALITION DRIVEN BY WORKING FAMILIES DELIVERS HUGE WINS FOR PROGRESS & INCLUSION IN CALIFORNIA

In an election marked by divisiveness and bigotry, we set out to make California a beacon of hope and opportunity – and we succeeded.  Our 700,000 SEIU California members selected Kamala Harris, to be the first woman of color to represent California in the U.S. Senate, and we helped pass a slate of initiatives, 55, 56, 57, and 58, that will make real improvements in Californians’ lives.

Member Benefits

Check out the benefits exclusive to SEIU Local 2015 members!

SEIU Local 2015 provides easy-to-use benefit plans designed to help you and your family maintain better health.

Nursing homes: Quality staffing means quality care

In the past decade, California has invested billions in improving nursing home care, yet for too many nursing home residents that investment hasn’t amounted to any improvement at all in the quality of the care they receive. According to nursing home caregivers of SEIU Local 2015, the dollars haven’t consistently translated into improved staffing levels.

Aixamar Ruiz – NH Worker (Anaheim, CA)

My name is Aixamar Ruiz. I am currently a nursing home worker in Anaheim, CA. I came to the U.S. from Venezuela in 1999. I came to this country to seek a better life. My dream since I was in Venezuela has always been to be a nurse. I feel a lot of satisfaction in being able to help another human being. It is very rewarding but not everyone has the heart for it.

National day of action shows the power of a union

SEIU Local 2015 Delegate Election Results

Based on the nearly 14,000 votes that were cast, below are the results of our SEIU Local 2015 SEIU International Convention Delegate Election.

Lifting up 6 Million Californians

Income inequality is the defining issue of our time. While the economic recovery continues, all gains are concentrated at the top. Most California workers – those in the lower and middle income levels – are not reaping our share of the growth. We are more productive, better trained, and better skilled than we have ever been. Yet, our wages have been stagnant for over a decade. Inflation, health care and housing costs, food and gas have all eaten away at whatever raises we have earned.

Delegate Election Ballot Info

Ballots for Local 2015’s delegate election for the 2016 SEIU Convention have been mailed. All ballots are due back by 10am on April 14. They MUST be mailed AND received by 10am on April 14 to be counted. Any member in good standing who has not received their ballot in the mail or who has lost their ballot may call 888-317-1906 to request that a replacement ballot be sent to them.

CA Legislature Approves Bills Taxing Health Plans

The Managed Care Organization (MCO) tax was approved yesterday with bipartisan support.

2016 Leadership Conference

Nearly 2,000 long term care providers gathered today at the Los Angeles convention Center to discuss the future of long term care and engage in key conversations around the key issues that disproportionately impact low income and communities of color. Caregivers had the opportunity to converse, organize, and discuss how these various issues directly impact their communities.

Support

Have a question related to SEIU Local 2015? Our support team at the Member Action Center (MAC) is here to answer it for you. Whether it’s about your contract, your benefits or your job, we can help.

SEIU Local 2015 Wants You!

The services provided by long term caregivers like you are invaluable. You are an integral part of the health care system in this country and your role will be even more important in the coming years.

We Care Nursing Homes

Nursing home workers provide some of the most important services in the entire health care system. They comfort our elderly and disabled friends and relatives and keep them safe. But they are often faced with challenging circumstances due to understaffing, poor management and inadequate pay and benefits.