Tag: Nursing Homes

• Press Release | February 14, 2022

  Members of SEIU Local 2015—California’s Largest Labor Union—hold Statewide Valentine’s Day of Action to call for an end to dangerously unsafe staffing levels in nursing homes

  Members of SEIU Local 2015—California’s Largest Labor Union—hold Statewide Valentine’s Day of Action to call for an end to dangerously unsafe staffing levels in nursing homes It’s ValenTime for Safe Staffing! SEIU 2015 will be sharing the love this Valentine’s...

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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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• Press Coverage | January 24, 2022

  The Fight for $20 and a Union: Another California Minimum Wage Earthquake?

  CA is Leader in Higher Wage Movement California is the epicenter for a nationwide grassroots movement to raise the wage floor for American workers. On January 1st, the state set $15 an hour as the floor for large employers and $14 an...

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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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• Press Coverage | July 13, 2021

  State bill targets nursing home corruption

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• Press Coverage | July 13, 2021

  Stern discusses nursing home reform bill

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• Press Coverage | May 27, 2021

  Union workers at Santa Cruz skilled nursing facility ask for good-faith negotiations

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• Press Coverage | December 27, 2020

  Surrounded by death, nursing home workers battle management and fear to protect patients

  BAKERSFIELD — Their faces flickered with hope when she entered their rooms. “Did my daughter forget about me?” asked one woman, over 80 years old. “Does she know I’m here?” “Where is my son?” begged a man down the hall. Her answers...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | Issues | December 27, 2020

  Surrounded by death, nursing home workers battle management and fear to protect patients

  BAKERSFIELD —  Their faces flickered with hope when she entered their rooms. “Did my daughter forget about me?” asked one woman, over 80 years old. “Does she know I’m here?” “Where is my son?” begged a man down the hall. Her...

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• Covid-19 News | December 1, 2020

  As virus again surges in California, race is a defining factor in nursing facilities, research shows

  As COVID-19 once again surges across California, skilled nursing facilities with more Black and Latino residents are being hit harder than those with fewer residents of color, according to a new study...

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• Covid-19 News | September 10, 2020

  The Striking Racial Divide in How Covid-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes

  Homes with a significant number of black and Latino residents have been twice as likely to be hit by the coronavirus as those where the population is overwhelmingly white.

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