Tag: IHSS

• Union Updates | Action Network | September 9, 2025

  Alert: Trump is trying to reverse the rights of home care workers

  Read about updates to SB 156 here We all deserve to live with dignity – to provide for our families, to receive the care we need, and to do work that’s respected and protected. Home care workers make that possible...

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• Uncategorized | Union Updates | August 28, 2025

  Del Norte County In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Campaign 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 Del Norte County, approximately 420 IHSS workers provide long-term care services—including household...

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• Press Coverage | August 26, 2025

  SEIU members ask supes for fair wages

  

  A group of Solano County In Home Supportive Services providers and SEIU members spoke during public comment at the Tuesday Solano County Board of Supervisors meetings, asking elected officials to pay them a fair and living wage. About ten members...

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• Press Release | August 26, 2025

  As union contract negotiations near a possible impasse, home care workers demand fiscal responsibility from County Supervisors

  More than $6 million in state and federal funding are available for wage increases to help address Shasta’s healthcare crisis Shasta County, CA – Today, Shasta’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers—members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union...

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• Press Coverage | June 3, 2025

  California’s Vulnerable Communities At Risk Amid Proposed Budget Cuts

  

  Community health advocates are alarmed after Gov. Gavin Newsom released a summary of the May Revision to his proposed 2025-26 California state budget. According to the California Budget & Policy Center, Newsom’s revision aims to close an estimated $7.5 billion deficit for...

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• Press Coverage | May 27, 2025

  News Coverage Los Angeles County Home Care Providers call for an investment in long-term care at Board of Supervisors

  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) caregivers—members of SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest labor union and the nation’s largest long-term care union—returned to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to demand investment in home care and improve the lives of the County’s...

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• Press Release | May 27, 2025

  Los Angeles County Home Care Providers–mostly women of color and the county’s largest low-wage workforce–call for an investment in long-term care at Board of Supervisors. 

  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers speak out again that the county is responsible for lifting their wages and insist that paying for the county’s sex abuse lawsuits should not fall on their backs.  LOS ANGELES, CA—In-Home Supportive Services...

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• Press Coverage | May 23, 2025

  Local in-home support workers at risk due to proposed state budget cuts

  

  Bernadette Walton is a Sacramento resident who is an in-home support service worker for her daughter. She provides for her 11-year-old daughter, who is autistic and needs support at home. Walton said her daughter needs help with everyday living — hygiene,...

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• Union Updates | May 16, 2025

  San Joaquin In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Campaign 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 San Joaquin County, approximately 8,250 IHSS workers provide long-term care services—including household...

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• Press Coverage | May 14, 2025

  Medicaid cuts threaten California’s in-home caregivers

  

  For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare...

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• Press Coverage | May 8, 2025

  The Unkindest Cut: Slashing Medicaid Threatens the Medically Vulnerable

  

  For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare...

  IHSSMedicaid CutsRegion 6Republican Budget CutsTulare County