Solano County IHSS Updates

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 Solano County, nearly 7,000 IHSS workers provide long-term care services (including household work, personal care services, and paramedical services) to older adults and people with disabilities.

Click here to learn more about the essential long-term care IHSS workers provide.

In our last union contract, we increased wages to $1.20 above the minimum wage, secured personal protective equipment from the Public Authority, and protected funding for our healthcare program.

But since then, our current wage has been outpaced by the rising cost of living. Solano’s home care providers currently earn $18.10 an hour, but the living wage for one adult without children in the county is $27.87 according to MIT’s living wage calculator. Without IHSS workers, our neighbors who receive services through IHSS would lose access to essential long-term care.

We’re bargaining a new contract that increases wages and improves benefits for workers and guarantees equitable access to long-term care for all who need it in our community. With the collective power of every Solano IHSS worker, we can improve our jobs and increase access to long-term care in our county!

Campaign Update: March 24th, 2026

While the care crisis in Solano County continues, we are seeing a record number of home care workers leaving the county in search of better pay and opportunities in surrounding counties. 

IHSS Providers and allies in Solano have continued to appeal to County Supervisors to let them know that delaying our contract has not deterred us, it has fired us up. We’ve called on individual Supervisors to do their jobs and fight for their struggling constituents. SEIU 2015 members created a petition to show the Supervisors how their inaction is affecting their own residents. Over 300 Solano county residents signed our petition to support solving the care crisis in Solano! 

IHSS Provider Eloise Wright reads the powerful petition created especially for the Solano County Board of Supervisors. She highlighted how over 82% of IHSS Providers in the county are forced to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet each month. 

IHSS Provider Maximina Del Real powerfully read some names of real Solano County residents who signed our petition in support of raising wages for IHSS providers in the county.

IHSS Provider and Bargaining Team member Minerva Pena continues to read some of the 300+ names of Solano County residents that signed our petition agreeing to end the care crisis and raise wages in Solano County.

IHSS Provider and SEIU 2015 Regional Vice President Daphne Dunstan expressed her disappointment personally to the Supervisor of her district, Monica Brown. Daphne shared how Supervisor Brown’s inaction threatens her ability to stay in the community. 

Campaign Update: March 3rd, 2026

Your bargaining team has been fighting for over eight months to help solve the care crisis in Solano by fighting for livable wages for IHSS workers workers. SEIU 2015 members, along with our allies, have been showing up to the Board of Supervisors meetings for the past few months making their voices heard and their faces known. 

We’ve shared our stories of struggle, disappointment, and fear that come with being a home care worker whose wages do not meet the basic cost of living needed to live in Solano County. 

IHSS Provider Kathy Mazingo shared her comments to the Board of Supervisors. She expressed her frustration with the county offering only $0.50, as if that was all they felt she was worth. 

IHSS Provider Sherry Williams bravely shared how the low wages in Solano forced her to seek employment in other counties, eventually pushing her out of Solano altogether. 

IHSS Provider and Bargaining team member Minerva Pena explained how raising wages for IHSS workers in Solano County can produce up to 12 million dollars in funding for the county.

IHSS Public Advisory Committee member Carl Vinson stressed how electing care champions to public office is an essential key to eliminating the care crisis in Solano; and this is something residents should keep in mind during election season.

Campaign Update: November 2025

IHSS providers in Solano County and their families were celebrated during a caregiver appreciation dinner on November 10th. Families from across Solano built community with each other over dinner while Solano County Supervisor Wanda Williams attended the event to connect with the families. Supervisor Williams  also answered pressing questions from SEIU 2015 members.

On November 18th, 2025 Solano home care workers and allies returned to the county Board of Supervisors chambers to read a proclamation declaring November as Family Caregivers Month. This proclamation was a way to apply continued pressure to the Board of Supervisors and let them know we are always fighting for recognition and the betterment of our community and we will not be discouraged!

Campaign Update: October 2025

For months your Solano County bargaining team has been working hard at the table, and in the community. They have been tirelessly fighting for better wages and adequate care in their county, and they haven’t let up one bit!

On October 21st, 2025, Solano County home care workers and allies stood in front of the Board of Supervisors to share their personal stories. They expressed to the Supervisors that there is a dire need for home care workers to receive better wages and adequate care in order to improve access to long-term care in Solano.

IHSS provider Mar Angeles shared that if the county doesn’t raise wages, she fears a day will come that she will have trouble finding home care workers for her own son in the future.

Shortly after, IHSS provider Eloise Wright gave a personal account on how the lack of adequate care and low wages are forcing many IHSS workers in Solano to seek work in outside counties with higher wages.

Next, IHSS provider Minerva Chavez shared the hard truth of how continued lower wages for home care workers in Solano county will create a hiring crisis that would affect her family and many others.

Then, in an effort to make sure the Supervisors understand that there are real people behind this cause, IHSS provider Elizabeth Cruz expressed how rising bills and low wages create unlivable conditions no person should be in.

Finally, SEIU 2015 member Carl Vincent called out the Board on their lack of support, especially from Supervisors who advocated for higher wages and better care in the past.

Meet the Solano County IHSS providers who are representing you at the bargaining table: