Tag: IHSS

• Union Updates | October 22, 2024

  Sonoma Home Care Providers Campaign for Strong Contract with Higher Wages

  

  Sonoma County home care providers care for older adults and people with disabilities, enabling them to live safely and with dignity in their homes. They provide a critical community service. Yet many Sonoma County IHSS workers struggle to make ends...

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• Union Updates | October 22, 2024

  Meet the Yolo IHSS Bargaining Committee

  Yolo In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers are getting ready to bargain our next union contract! Through this process, we have the opportunity to: Increase wages and benefits Secure funds for the training and equipment we need to do our jobs...

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• Press Release | September 24, 2024

  Santa Cruz County In-Home Supportive Services workers Rally at Board of Supervisors Meeting, Demanding Livable Wages and Healthcare

  

  Santa Cruz County, CA – Santa Cruz In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, represented by SEIU Local 2015—the largest long-term care union in the nation—shared public comments and rallied at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors office to demand livable...

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• Press Release | August 15, 2024

  New survey reveals widespread financial distress among Sonoma’s 6,000 home care providers, worsening county’s care crisis

  Almost half access CalFresh and/or food banks, alarming survey shows Sonoma County, CA—Sonoma In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers—members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union, and California’s largest labor union representing more than 470,000 nursing home workers...

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• Union Updates | July 17, 2024

  Meet the San Joaquin IHSS Bargaining Committee

  

  San Joaquin In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers are getting ready to bargain our next union contract! Through this process, we have the opportunity to: Increase wages & benefits Secure funds for training & equipment we need to do our jobs...

  IHSSRegion 4Bargaining Update
• Victory | Press Coverage | July 17, 2024

  News Coverage of Mendocino County Contract Ratification

  

  Mendocino County, CA – The In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 470,000 caregivers across California, ratified a new three-year contract with the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors.  The new...

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• Press Coverage | July 11, 2024

  The retirement savings crisis: Why more Americans can’t afford to stop working

  

  Theresa Edwards thought these would be her golden years. Instead, she gets up at dawn to crisscross Los Angeles by bus to work as a caregiver. Waiting at home at the end of a long day is her last patient:...

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• Press Coverage | June 6, 2024

  News Coverage of California Disabled People, Seniors, and Immigrants Uniting to Push Back Against Cuts To IHSS Critical Services, Los Angeles

  

  Los Angeles, CA - On Thursday, June 6, 2024, IHSS workers and members of SEIU Local 2015, disabled people, seniors, and immigrants unite to rally against a cut in funding to critical IHSS services. Telemundo 5pm: Manisfestacion con trabajadores IHSS...

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• Victory | Campaigns | May 31, 2024

  San Benito County IHSS ratify of their tentative agreement on new union contract

  

  Latest update 5/31/2024 on San Benito County IHSS ratifying their Tentative AgreementHome care providers and workers in San Benito County have officially ratified their agreement with the Board of Supervisors, guaranteeing them a $1.65 per hour wage increase. When you...

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• Press Coverage | May 23, 2024

  California could boot thousands of immigrants from program that aids elderly and disabled

  

  This report features our member Norma... In Contra Costa County, Norma Garcia has been attending to her 67-year-old mother, who has dementia and needs constant care, through the IHSS program. If her mother is cut off from the program, and...

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• Press Release | May 21, 2024

  Fresno County home care providers–mostly women of color–rallied in a continued push for livable wages and healthcare after the Board of Supervisors proposed a mere 20-cent counter at the bargaining table

  Fresno County, CA—Today, Fresno In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers—members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union, and California’s largest labor union representing more than 470,000 nursing home workers and home care providers—gathered at the Fresno...

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