In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a social service that allows people who need long-term care to receive it in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In Shasta County, approximately 4,300 IHSS workers provide long-term care services—including household work, personal care services, and paramedical services—to approximately 4,500 older adults and people with disabilities.

Without home care workers, our neighbors who receive services through IHSS would lose access to essential long-term care. Despite their vital role in Shasta’s long-term care system, IHSS workers earn just $18.10 an hour—far below what’s needed to cover household expenses.

Shasta IHSS workers are joining together to secure a strong contract that increases wages, improves benefits, and guarantees equitable access to long-term care for all who need it in our community.

Campaign Update: February 2026

Earlier this month, Shasta home care workers bravely stood before County Supervisors to call out their failure to meet the needs of our community.

Despite the worsening long-term care crisis being fueled by the far-too-low IHSS wage, Supervisors withdrew their one and only measly offer on wage increases for essential home care workers. Then, before we could recover from the shock of their  disrespect, Supervisors turned around and gave themselves a 4% raise.

Shame on Shasta Supervisors! We’re tired of their selfishness and lack of accountability. That’s why we’re calling on our union siblings across the North State to help us demand a strong contract with the wages we need to care for everyone who needs it in Shasta County.

💥 Join us on Tuesday, March 24 to stand up for IHSS caregivers and recipients!

• When: Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 8:00 am
• Where: Shasta Board of Supervisors, 1450 Court St, Redding, CA 96001
• What: Attend the Board of Supervisors meeting as Shasta IHSS workers hold them accountable for their negligence and disrespect toward our community’s caregivers, elders, and neighbors with disabilities.

Campaign Update: January 2026

For more than a year, our union has been hard at work to address urgent issues with Shasta’s long-term care system. Hundreds of Shasta residents have voiced concerns about our county’s worsening healthcare crisis—urging county leaders to take action by raising the IHSS wage.

Despite widespread support from our community, Shasta Supervisors have withdrawn their one-and-only measly offer for wage increases and are now refusing to raise our wage. This is a cruel and unprecedented move at the bargaining table. To add insult to injury, they turned around and gave themselves a 4% salary increase.

We can’t stand by as our elected leaders devalue and ignore our community. 

🤝 Stand with your community on Feb 10 to raise the IHSS wage! 

• When: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 8:30 am
• Where: Shasta Board of Supervisors, 1450 Court St, Redding, CA 96001
• What: Attend the Board of Supervisors meeting as Shasta IHSS workers hold them accountable for their negligence and disrespect toward our community’s caregivers, elders, and neighbors with disabilities.

Campaign Update: September 2025

For nine months, we’ve been trying to raise our wages in our next union contract so we can better provide for our families while providing essential care to our community. In August, dozens of IHSS workers from all across Shasta bravely stood together and spoke out at the Board of Supervisors meeting to urge them to protect our community by funding home care. 

Despite the critical nature of your work and the role you play in keeping your recipient safe and cared for, Shasta Supervisors continue to refuse to pay you a livable wage. We won’t stand for this disrespect. We’re going back to the Board of Supervisors—louder and stronger than ever—to make it clear that Shasta IHSS workers won’t back down until Shasta Supervisors value and fund home care. 

This time, we need you to stand with us. Join us to pressure county leaders to do the right thing and fund home care.

💪 Board of Supervisors Meeting – Tuesday, September 23
Attend the Board meeting and support fellow home care workers as we share our stories

• Where: Shasta Board of Supervisors, 1450 Court St, Redding, CA 96001
• When: Tuesday, September 23 at 8:30 am

By coming together from all across Shasta County, we will show Shasta Supervisors that IHSS caregivers, our recipients, and our community are united and willing to do whatever it takes to fully fund home care.

Campaign Update: March 2025

We’ve been hard at work, at the bargaining table and in our community, to secure wages and benefits we need to adequately care for our community. Shasta home care workers and our allies returned to the Board of Supervisors chamber on March 11 to continue making our community and County Supervisors aware of the growing crisis in long-term care.

We revealed new survey results that underscore the urgency to increase wages for Shasta home care workers in order to attract and retain more caregivers. Read more about the survey results in our recent press release.

Then, on March 13, our bargaining committee met with county officials to continue making progress toward our next union contract.

Like bargaining committee member, Ronnie Dillon, said: we’re not discouraged. In fact, we’re energized and ready to keep pushing for the improvements we need to ensure Shasta is prepared to meet our community’s growing demand for care.

Want to support our efforts to improve access to long-term care in Shasta County?

Campaign Update: February 2025

In January, our bargaining team met with county officials to continue making progress on our next union contract. In that meeting, it became clear that it’s going to take everyone in our community to make sure Shasta Supervisors urgently address the long-term care crisis in our county. To alert our community to this crisis and begin building their support, we held a rally and march in front of the Board of Supervisors chambers on February 4.

Two of our bargaining team members, Ronnie Dillon and Harry Madson, spoke about the growing need for long-term care across Shasta County.

Our leaders emphasized that attracting and retaining enough caregivers is the key to ensuring everyone in our community has the freedom to choose where they receive care—and County Supervisors have the power to make that happen. Read more about the crisis and how we’re addressing it in our recent press release.

Our collective action is helping us make important progress toward our next union contract. During our most recent bargaining session, we reached agreements with the county in three key areas:

• Training: we protected our $10,000 per year training fund, which helps caregivers learn the essential skills we need to thrive on-the-job
• Safety: we secured funding for essential personal protective equipment (PPE) like gloves, masks, goggles, and gowns
• Rights & Protections: we won more union member representation in our Labor-Management Committee (LMC) and made commitments for future contract negotiations to be conducted in a timely manner

We’ll continue sounding the alarm to our community about the growing crisis in long-term care until we secure the union contract we need to adequately address it!

Campaign Update: December 2024

• We had our first bargaining session with Shasta County on December 4, and we proposed improvements for our next union contract.
• We’ll meet with the County again on January 9 to continue making progress toward a union contract that helps IHSS providers and recipients thrive.

Campaign Update: September 2024

• Our union sent a survey to Shasta IHSS workers to learn about our top priorities for our next union contract.
• Using the input from our members, our bargaining team put together contract proposals and began preparing to meet with county officials.

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Meet the Shasta IHSS Bargaining Committee