Category: Press Coverage

• LA Sentinal | March 18, 2022

  Nursing Home Worker Poll: Half Say They Are Likely to Leave Their Jobs in the Next 12 Months

  

  SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing more than 400,000 nursing home and home care workers, released results from its worker poll that highlights an industry in crisis. COVID has exacerbated a pre-existing...
• LA Sentinel | March 17, 2022

  Nursing Home Worker Poll: Half Say They Are Likely to Leave Their Jobs in the Next 12 Months

  SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing more than 400,000 nursing home and home care workers, released results from its worker poll that highlights an industry in crisis. COVID has exacerbated a pre-existing...

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• PoliticoPro.com | March 14, 2022

  ‘You will see the wrath’ — Progressives warn Biden against cutting down agenda

  President Joe Biden’s vision for building a vast "care economy" has collapsed — and Democrats fear their party’s political advantage with parents and caregivers could end up as collateral damage. “They cannot return home for a midterm election without bringing...
• The 19th | March 11, 2022

  Nursing home workers react to Biden’s ‘game-changing’ call for reform

  

  Nursing home staffers — the majority of whom are women, disproportionately women of color — have kept centers running through unprecedented times. Now help could be coming. President Joe Biden last week rolled out an ambitious set of proposals to...

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• AL DÍA | February 25, 2022

  La manifestación de Los Ángeles da el pistoletazo de salida al esfuerzo por naturalizar a 2 millones de ciudadanos estadounidenses este año

  

  Hay aproximadamente 9 millones de residentes legales permanentes en EE.UU. con derecho a la ciudadanía que aún no la han solicitado. El martes 22 de febrero, los alcaldes de Los Ángeles y Long Beach (California) se unieron a representantes de...

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• The Washington Post | February 24, 2022

  Black women are overrepresented and underpaid in health care’s toughest jobs, study shows

  

  Black women are more overrepresented in health-care jobs than any other demographic groups, and are concentrated in its lowest-paid and most dangerous roles — disparities that are products of structural racism and sexism, according to a new study published this month...

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• LA Sentinel | February 17, 2022

  California’s Largest Labor Union Announces Endorsements for Los Angeles Mayor, Los Angeles Board of Supervisors District 3, and Other Local Races 

  SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing more than 400,000 nursing home and home care workers, announced their candidate endorsements for several open elected positions in 2022 in Los Angeles County, including the...

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• Times Standard | February 14, 2022

  Eureka nursing home staff demand better conditions

  

  Residents at a Eureka nursing home got a special Valentine’s Day card this year. The workers at the facility wanted to let residents know their fight for better staffing levels would improve the lives of residents, too.

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• The Bakersfield Californian | February 14, 2022

  Union says higher wages will lead to better conditions at skilled nursing facility in Delano

  

  Employees of a skilled nursing facility in Delano are pushing for higher wages, saying their low pay is creating “unsafe staffing levels” in nursing homes. Certified nurses assistants from the Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility took part in a Valentine's...

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• The Grio | January 30, 2022

  From businesses to workers, inflation is taking its toll on Black communities

  

  Black business owners feel they are experiencing the brunt of high inflation rates, but experts point to the 1980s as an indication that the worst has yet to come for the Black community as a whole. Khari Parker, co-founder of Connie’s...

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• CalMatters | January 24, 2022

  COVID-infected nurses working at short-staffed nursing homes

  

  Four days after Celine started working as a nursing assistant in the COVID-19 unit at a Placerville nursing home, she tested positive for the virus. She was fatigued, weak and had a dry cough — but she kept working. She...

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