Tag: Healthcare

• Press Release | June 24, 2025

  Monterey County home care workers–mostly immigrant women and women of color–rallied to address Monterey County’s need for livable wages and healthcare in the wake of escalating ICE raids

  Monterey, CA – Today, Monterey County In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015–the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union, representing half a million nursing home workers and home care providers–rallied outside of the...

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• Press Release | September 10, 2024

  Santa Cruz County Long-Term Care Workers Rally at Board of Supervisors Meeting, Demanding Livable Wages and Healthcare

  Santa Cruz County, CA – Today, Santa Cruz In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, represented by SEIU Local 2015—the largest long-term care union in the nation—will once again share public comments and rally at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors...

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• Press Release | July 24, 2023

  San Benito County’s long-term care providers speak out to demand access to healthcare

  San Benito, CA – Today, members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing nearly 450,000 nursing home workers and home care providers, are holding a press conference. San Benito County IHSS...

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• Media Advisory | July 24, 2023

  San Benito County’s long-term care providers speak out to demand access to healthcare

  WHEN:           Tuesday, July 25th, 9am PT WHERE: San Benito Board of Supervisors County Administration Bldg.481 4th St, 1st FloorHollister, CA 95023 WHO: Long-term care workers (members of SEIU 2015); Supporters and allies from the SEIU...

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• 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 Coverage | August 10, 2022

  ‘Rude and condescending.’ Clovis nursing home workers blast bosses, picket facility

  

  Health care workers at a Clovis nursing home Wednesday set up a picket line to highlight what they call poor working conditions exacerbated by unsafe staffing levels, low wages and high turnover. The workers, part of the Service Employees International...

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• Press Coverage | June 16, 2022

  In California, It Barely Pays to Take Care of Elders in Need at Home

  

  This article also appeared in Sacramento News and Review here.   Sydney O’Connor’s clients have disparate needs. One, a double transplant survivor who is almost blind, requires assistance for most of the critical transactions in his life, including paying bills and staying current...

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• Press Coverage | June 1, 2022

  IHSS funds could be amplified

  

  In-Home Support Services workers and union representatives aren’t making enough money to cover gas for some shifts, workers are saying. A line of IHSS workers and representatives, dressed mostly in matching purple shirts, opened up the more-than-eight-hour-long county Board of...

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• Press Coverage | May 14, 2022

  Pro-choice activists descend on DC, vow to be ‘ungovernable’ as they protest draft Supreme Court opinion

  

  Thousands of pro-choice activists from different corners in America descended on Washington, D.C., on Saturday for the "Bans Off Our Bodies" event organized by a coalition of groups including Planned Parenthood and the Women's March. Welcoming activists to the nation's capital, Rachel...

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• Press Coverage | April 6, 2022

  Humboldt County: Healthcare Workers Protested at Local Facility & Supervisor’s Meeting, Claim Low Wages and Not Enough Staff for Elders Under Their Care

  

  Kymkemp.com: Heroes Work Here! The chant could be heard from Safeway, just down the block from the scene in front of Granada Rehabilitation Center, where staff and local in-home caregivers were demonstrating. About 30 people gathered in front of the...

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• Press Coverage | December 23, 2021

  Alameda County In-Home Caretakers Seek $20 Wage, More Accessible Health Care

  

  According to Lupe Martinez, who is SEIU 2015’s chief negotiator, many caretakers work well over 80 hours a month, but don’t receive healthcare, because much of those hours are off the books. As a result, many caretakers are effectively working...

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