Category: Press Releases

• Media Advisory | June 7, 2022

  LA Nursing Home Workers Rally in National Day of Action Demanding Industry Wide Standards, Seat at the Table in Response to Staffing Crisis and Low Wages

  Members of SEIU 2015 will mobilize across California to demand that a Quality Standards Board be a part of the State Budget to address dangerously low staffing levels and low wages. This is the fifth statewide day of action calling...

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• Press Release | June 2, 2022

  Nursing Home Quality Standards Board UPDATE: California Legislature Indicates Support

  SEIU Members and Lawmakers Agree: Investing in Workers is the Only Pathway to an Equitable Recovery  Sacramento, CA – Members of the Service Employees International Union in California welcomed yesterday’s joint legislative budget agreement and essential workforce investments. David Huerta, President...

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• Press Release | May 24, 2022

  Nursing Home Workers Rally in 4th Statewide Day of Action As Pressure Grows for Response to Staffing Crisis and Low Wages

  As the Governor Calls for Nursing Home Worker Empowerment and the Senate Lays the Foundation for Fundamental Reform Through A Quality Standards Board… Members of SEIU 2015 will again mobilize across the state in a series of actions to address...

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• Press Release | May 19, 2022

  With their Picket, Nursing Home Workers in Chatsworth Again Sound Alarm on Unsafe Staffing Levels and Other Problems in their Facility

  Just weeks after speaking out in front of their workplace, nursing home workers—members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 nursing home and home care workers—say nothing has improved, leading them to hold an...

  Nursing HomesUnsafe Staffing Levels
• Press Release | May 16, 2022

  Working people fan out across country to mobilize voters ahead of midterm elections in “Spring Into Action” push

  Conversations center on rising prices, lack of affordable home care and attacks on fundamental rights WASHINGTON – Hundreds of SEIU members are mobilizing in key battlegrounds to talk to voters about what’s motivating them this election year, including greedy corporations...

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• Press Release | May 12, 2022

  By Investing in Workers, California Will Show the Nation What Equitable Recovery Looks Like 

  Sacramento, CA – Members of the Service Employees International Union in California responded enthusiastically to Governor Newsom’s announcement that California’s minimum wage will rise to $15.50 and applauded his proposal for retention bonuses for health care workers, including nursing home...

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• Press Release | May 11, 2022

  Home Care Providers Rally at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Office in Escalation of their “Time for $20” Campaign

  Backdropped by a giant banner listing basic necessities they can’t afford, members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 long-term care workers in California, rallied for a $20 per hour living wage floor and...

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• Press Statement | Union Updates | May 11, 2022

  Remembering Roberto De La Cruz

  

  By Mary Kay Henry The SEIU family has lost a true warrior for workers. Roberto De La Cruz helped transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of working people during his fifty years in the labor movement, including twenty with...

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• Press Release | May 6, 2022

  Town Hall brings nursing home workers face-to-face with legislators moving proposal to transform the industry

  Sen. Stern, Asm. Santiago joined SEIU 2015 in championing the Skilled Nursing Quality Standards Board to address the industry’s “Great Resignation” crisis and dangerously low staffing levels to ensure quality care May 6, 2022, Los Angeles, CA – Yesterday, long-term...

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• Press Statement | May 4, 2022

  Statement from SEIU Local 2015 President April Verrett on Supreme Court Draft Opinion Regarding Roe v. Wade

  Los Angeles, CA, May 3, 2022 – April Verrett, President of SEIU Local 2015, released the following statement in response to the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court announcing the intention to strike down Roe v. Wade: “This Monday,...

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• Press Statement | May 2, 2022

  Statement from SEIU 2015 President April Verrett on her appointment as co-chair of United to House Los Angeles

  

  “I’m honored to formally join United to House Los Angeles as campaign co-chair in their work to confront the city’s affordability crisis, reduce homelessness, and protect our most vulnerable community members. This cause is close to my heart as President...

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