Category: Press Coverage

• The Washington Post | August 19, 2024

  Beyond ‘interim’ senator: How Laphonza Butler joined Harris’s inner circle

  

  The San Francisco district attorney needed support from key unions and different parts of California when she launched her first statewide campaign. So almost 15 years ago, Kamala Harris connected with another rising star, Laphonza Butler, then the Los Angeles-based leader of...

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• News Coverage | August 7, 2024

  Nursing home workers at Rockport-Brius facilities call for an end to skyrocketing turnover and unsafe staffing levels picket across nursing homes in Los Angeles 

  

  Today, members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing more than 470,000 nursing home workers and home care providers, held a press conference at Paramount Plaza Rockport Healthcare Services Headquarters to...

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• Keyt.com | July 24, 2024

  Ventura County home care workers in negotiations for improved working conditions, livable wages, and healthcare

  

  VENTURA COUNTY, Calif.—IHHS workers help low-income patients who are blind, disabled, or 65 years or older so they can remain safely in their homes. In Ventura County the IHSS program serves approximately 7,000 people each month. The caregiving profession requires a...

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• News Coverage | July 17, 2024

  News Coverage of Mendocino County Contract Ratification

  

  Mendocino County, CA – The In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 470,000 caregivers across California, ratified a new three-year contract with the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors.  The new...

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• USA Today | July 11, 2024

  The retirement savings crisis: Why more Americans can’t afford to stop working

  

  Theresa Edwards thought these would be her golden years. Instead, she gets up at dawn to crisscross Los Angeles by bus to work as a caregiver. Waiting at home at the end of a long day is her last patient:...

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• News Coverage | June 28, 2024

  Linea De Fuego Interview with Arnulfo De La Cruz

  In this interview with Arnulfo De La Cruz, President of SEIU 2015, he talks about how the state budget deficit can impact home care providers. It's important to understand the potential effects of this on the people who rely on...

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• PeoplesWorld.org | June 20, 2024

  SEIU celebrates Juneteenth in Detroit, reenergizing its healthcare campaign

  

  DETROIT— “Make some noise SEIU! Make ‘em hear us from Canada to Lansing,” shouted home healthcare worker and Service Employees organizer Rodney Tate to hundreds of trade unionists outfitted in purple and gold. “When we fight, we win!” The crowd...

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• News Coverage | June 6, 2024

  News Coverage of California Disabled People, Seniors, and Immigrants Uniting to Push Back Against Cuts To IHSS Critical Services, Los Angeles

  

  Los Angeles, CA - On Thursday, June 6, 2024, IHSS workers and members of SEIU Local 2015, disabled people, seniors, and immigrants unite to rally against a cut in funding to critical IHSS services. Telemundo 5pm: Manisfestacion con trabajadores IHSS...

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• News Coverage | June 5, 2024

  Congressman Jimmy Gomez CA-34 discussing the need for immigration relief in Congress as part of the IU and TPS alliance week of action in Washington D.C. 

  https://youtu.be/LfTnUST6oMc Representative Gomez lifts up our member leader, L.A. County home care provider and TPS recipient Maria Barahona. Nearly half of our 470,000 long-term care providers are immigrants providing essential work.

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• LA Times | May 23, 2024

  California could boot thousands of immigrants from program that aids elderly and disabled

  

  This report features our member Norma... In Contra Costa County, Norma Garcia has been attending to her 67-year-old mother, who has dementia and needs constant care, through the IHSS program. If her mother is cut off from the program, and...

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• LA Sentinel | May 23, 2024

  April Verrett Elected 1st Black President of SEIU

  History was made on May 20 with the election of April Verrett as the first Black president of the Service Employees International Union, which represents nearly 2 million workers in health care, property service and government service.      Verrett’s election occurred...

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