Los Angeles Times | January 26, 2025

California’s growing need for caregivers could collide with a crackdown on immigrants

President Trump’s plans to overhaul immigration could reduce the ranks of workers who care for elderly and disabled people at home and in long-term care facilities as California and the country grapple with the needs of an aging population, healthcare...

Care Crisis Immigration Reform
Fight Back News | January 23, 2025

San Jose: 600 march against Trump’s agenda

San Jose, CA – On MLK Day, upwards of 600 San Jose residents came out to protest Trump's inauguration and fight back against his anti-immigrant agenda. The protest mobilized a broad array of progressive organizations in the South Bay, all...

Region 5 San Jose Trump
Calfac.org | January 23, 2025

Sonoma State Administrators Announce Layoffs, Department Closures and Mergers

In a move that will devastate student recruitment, retention, learning, and success, Sonoma State management announced this week deep cuts to faculty, staff, and instructional and support programs. This decimation of a CSU Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) is unconscionable and immoral in...

Region 5 Sonoma
Radio Bilingue | January 16, 2025

Labor Activism on the Rise in Fresno

As new labor laws come into effect this year and a new president takes office, labor organizations are bracing for change. Amid a rise of labor union activism, local unions in the San Joaquin Valley are joining forces around an...

Fresno Labor Region 3 Wildfires 2025
Lookout Santa Cruz | January 16, 2025

New union contract hikes wages for home care workers in Santa Cruz County

The union representing long-term care workers in California has ratified an agreement with Santa Cruz County to boost pay to $20.50 an hour. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2015 represents 3,171 workers in the county who provide in-home and...

Livable Wage Region 3 Santa Cruz
The Sacramento Bee | January 14, 2025

Home care workers help California’s aging population. Should they be covered by state unions?

Home care workers who provide assistance to elderly and disabled Californians could see more wage equality, according to a recent labor report, by shifting contract negotiations to the state level instead of bargaining individually with California’s 56 individual counties. Currently,...

All Regions Care Crisis Unions
Rollcall.com | January 9, 2025

Trump’s immigration plans could imperil long-term care workforce

Demand for direct care workers will grow by 35 percent to 41 percent between 2022 and 2037, according to some projections. President-elect Donald Trump’s vowed crackdown on immigration could strain an already struggling elder care workforce that relies on foreign-born...

Immigration Staffing Crisis Trump
Local News Matters | December 13, 2024

Sonoma County in-home care workers will receive 14.4% pay increase over two years

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has approved pay and benefit increases for 7,200 in-home care workers who assist seniors and people with disabilities. A contract with workers represented by Service Employees International Union Local 2015 will raise hourly wages...

Region 5 Sonoma County
Pagesuite.com | December 9, 2024

Butler makes way for Schiff amid identity politics debate

With Black LGBTQ+ senator’s exit, 2 men will represent state for first time in decades. WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, as Republicans sought to ban books with Black history and LGBTQ+ themes from schools across the country, the nation’s first...

Adam Schiff Laphonza Butler US Senate
Fresnoland | November 26, 2024

SEIU won big on election night. Will Fresno County IHSS workers finally get a raise?

The union helped oust two incumbents on the Fresno County Board of Supervisors. But the two incoming supervisors have shown varying support for union proposals. Service Employees International Union Local 2015 scored some of the biggest wins in Fresno County elections this...

Fresno County Board of Supervisors Livable Wage Victories Victory
Dollars & Sense | November 22, 2024

Domestic Workers: A New Face of Solidarity

When it passed the U.S. Congress in 1935, the National Relations Act recognized the collective bargaining rights of U.S. private-sector workers and established a process to require employers to bargain with their unions. The law carried a political price, however....

Workers Rights