Tag: Nursing Homes

• Press Statement | March 2, 2022

  In State of the Union, Biden Looks toCaregivers to Transform Nursing Home Industry 

  

  SEIU CaliforniaFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mike Roth, 916.444.7170Maria Elena Jauregui, Spanish-language, 818.355.5291 Sacramento, CA – Members of the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) California warmly embraced the nursing home industry reforms President Biden released Monday and referred to in his...

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• Press Coverage | February 14, 2022

  Eureka nursing home staff demand better conditions

  

  Residents at a Eureka nursing home got a special Valentine’s Day card this year. The workers at the facility wanted to let residents know their fight for better staffing levels would improve the lives of residents, too.

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• 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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