Category: Press Release

• Press Release | November 1, 2022

  Home Care Providers Shut Down the L.A. County Board of Supervisors’ Latest Public Hearing in Renewed Call for Living Wages

  

  Essential in-home care workers—members of SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest union and the nation’s largest long-term care union—escalate their call for a $20 minimum wage floor  View footage, interviews and b-roll from event here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8n5m7xcgcl56qy3/AACpAWiod-SzU8bCWrhRbvuya?dl=0 LOS ANGELES, CA— Today, Los...

  Arnulfo De La CruzLA County Board of SupervisorsRegion 1
• Press Release | October 10, 2022

  Statement of SEIU Leaders on Los Angeles City Leadership Failure

  

  SEIU California leaders with membership in the Los Angeles area have convened to discuss the remarks that were made public yesterday involving a conversation among City Council President Nury Martinez, Councilmember Kevin de León, Councilmember Gil Cedillo, and Los Angeles...

  Race IssuesLos AngelesLA City CouncilRegion 1
• Press Release | October 6, 2022

  Fresno Nursing Home Workers Begin ULP Strike at Sunnyside Convalescent Hospital with Indefinite End Date

  After their one-day strike last month, nursing home workers of SEIU 2015 will begin an indefinite strike in protest of intimidation and retaliation as they work to address the high turnover, low staffing, and bounced paychecks they’ve endured as employees...

  Sunnyside Convalescent HospitalLabor StrikeFresnoRegion 3
• Press Release | October 5, 2022

  SEIU’s Henry: Ending DACA Would Hurt Hundreds of Thousands of Recipients, Their Families, And All of Our Communities.

  Congress Must Act Now to Protect Them WASHINGTON, DC – Today a Federal Appeals Court ruled in Texas v. United States that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unlawful, but kept it in place pending further review of the DACA rule...
• Press Release | October 4, 2022

  Los Angeles Home Care Providers turn up the heat—including taking arrest—as they return to the Board of Supervisors to demand a living wage

  In the most disruptive protest yet, essential workers escalated their call for a $20 minimum wage floor, again speaking up in a public board meeting, again closing down Temple Street, and sitting in the street as an act of civil...

  Los AngelesBoard of SupervisorsHome Care ProvidersRegion 1
• Press Release | September 27, 2022

  Los Angeles Home Care Providers Hold Action at LA County Board of Supervisors’ Chambers During First In-Person Public Meeting in 2+ Years

  Essential in-home care providers—members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 nursing home and home care workers—escalated their call for a $20 minimum wage floor  LOS ANGELES, CA—Today, at the Los Angeles County...

  Los AngelesLA County Board of SupervisorsRegion 1
• Press Release | September 21, 2022

  Fresno Nursing Home Workers Hold ULP Strike at Sunnyside Convalescent Hospital

  Nursing home workers of SEIU Local 2015 walk out to bring attention to poor working conditions contributing to high turnover rates, unsafe staffing levels, and bounced paychecks  During attempts to continue negotiations over the weekend, the employer presented an ultimatum...

  Region 3Sunnyside Convalescent HospitalUnsafe Staffing LevelsFresnoNursing Homes
• Press Release | September 9, 2022

  Fresno Nursing Home Workers Ready to Strike

  Workers report high turnover, low staffing, and bounced paychecks among reasons for walkout Fresno, CA—Today nursing home workers at Sunnyside Convalescent Hospital announce their plan to strike for one day on September 21st. The workers at this facility organized a...

  Nursing HomesRegion 3Sunnyside Convalescent HospitalFresno
• Press Release | September 5, 2022

  Home Care Providers Close Down Temple Street for Labor Day Rally at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Office in Escalation of Their “Time for $20” Campaign

  Joined by elected officials Senator Maria Elena Durazo, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago and others, street theater performers, IHSS consumers and local Korean Drummers, members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 long-term care workers in...

  Region 1Los AngelesTimeFor$20
• Press Release | August 31, 2022

  CA Legislature Extends Essential COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave to Workers

  Sacramento, CA – Today, the California Labor Federation, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Western States Council came together to applaud the California Legislature’s passage of AB 152/SB 136 to extend COVID-19...

  CovidPaid Sick Leave
• Press Release | August 10, 2022

  Nursing Home Workers Unite Across California in Coordinated Protest of the State’s Largest Nursing Home Operator

  As workers continue to flee the nursing home industry, employees of Providence Home and Community Care unite in coordinated protests across California to secure improvements in workplace conditions and better pay and benefits Los Angeles, CA – Today, nursing home...

  April VerrettNursing HomesProvidence