Tag: Covid

• Press Coverage | September 20, 2022

  COVID Great Reckoning hastens a crisis of caregivers shortage

  Workers are demanding safety, dignity and fair compensation for themselves. It is a moral imperative that these changes are made to sustain the care sector. Millions of workers have left their jobs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Great Resignation....

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• 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...

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• Press Coverage | June 23, 2022

  Extra Edition: Dealing with the Nursing Home Crisis

  At the beginning of the pandemic, nursing homes became the epicenter of Covid-19 deaths. This crisis had a disproportionate impact on facilities that serve predominantly Latinos and African Americans. Nursing home workers are feeling demoralized and burned out and thousands...

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• Press Coverage | May 11, 2022

  To Fix Nursing Homes, Listen to Nursing Home Workers

  

  Just over two years ago, Californians were ordered to stay at home to halt the spread of COVID-19. Our lives haven’t been the same since. But one thing hasn’t changed—the conditions that made nursing homes more dangerous than any other...

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• Press Coverage | April 27, 2022

  Guest essay: To fix nursing homes, listen to nursing home workers 

  

  Just over two years ago, Californians were ordered to stay at home to halt the spread of COVID-19. Our lives haven’t been the same since. But one thing hasn’t changed—the conditions that made nursing homes more dangerous than any other...

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• Press Coverage | April 19, 2022

  April 19th: SEIU 2015 supports higher wages for home health care workers

  

  La Opinion: Los hogares de ancianos están en crisis y California no puede solucionarlo sin los trabajadores Los números reflejan una historia de pérdida humana y de costo operativo relacionado al Covid-19 en los hogares de ancianos de California. 9,716 residentes...

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• Press Coverage | 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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• Press Release | March 10, 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, Releases Data Days after President Biden Outlines Industry Crisis in State of the Union Address.  March 10, 2022, Los Angeles, CA — Today, SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union...

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• Press Coverage | 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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• Issues | January 18, 2022

  $500 IHSS Hazard Pay!

  

  Who qualifies for the $500 hazard pay?Eligible recipients must have worked for a minimum of two months (total, not necessarily consecutive) between March 2020 and March 2021. When can we expect these payments?These payments are expected to be paid out...

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• Press Coverage | January 10, 2022

  Healthcare Workers Push Back On Dangerous New Guidance From CDPH

  

  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The California Department of Public Health’s decision to allow employers to force COVID-positive healthcare workers and caregivers to work, exposing sick patients, vulnerable elderly people, and the general public to COVID, outraged SEIU California leaders, who represent...

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