Tag: Region 1

• Press Release | November 1, 2022

  Home Care Providers Shut Down the L.A. County Board of Supervisors’ Latest Public Hearing in Renewed Call for Living Wages

  

  Essential in-home care workers—members of SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest union and the nation’s largest long-term care union—escalate their call for a $20 minimum wage floor  View footage, interviews and b-roll from event here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8n5m7xcgcl56qy3/AACpAWiod-SzU8bCWrhRbvuya?dl=0 LOS ANGELES, CA— Today, Los...

  Arnulfo De La CruzLA County Board of SupervisorsRegion 1
• Press Coverage | October 19, 2022

  Los Angeles Labor Leaders led by SEIU California President David Huerta to underscore labor’s solidarity to demand De Leon and Cedillo’s Immediate Resignation

  

  Los Angeles, CA - On October 18, regional labor leaders, representing nurses, healthcare workers, janitors, social workers, security officers, in-home caregivers, school and university employees, court workers, and city, county and state employees, will unite to denounce the failed leadership on...

  Los AngelesRacismCity CouncilKevin De LeonGil CedilloRegion 1
• Press Coverage | October 15, 2022

  Racism cracks foundation of L.A.’s ‘House of Labor’

  

  Herrera’s role in the scandal leaves unions shaken and workers’ trust shattered. The day before he crashed headlong into disgrace via the racist mess currently upending Los Angeles politics, former labor leader Ron Herrera was out stumping for Black candidates,...

  Region 1
• Press Release | October 10, 2022

  Statement of SEIU Leaders on Los Angeles City Leadership Failure

  

  SEIU California leaders with membership in the Los Angeles area have convened to discuss the remarks that were made public yesterday involving a conversation among City Council President Nury Martinez, Councilmember Kevin de León, Councilmember Gil Cedillo, and Los Angeles...

  Race IssuesLos AngelesLA City CouncilRegion 1
• Press Coverage | October 5, 2022

  News Coverage of LA Home Care Providers as they return to the Board of Supervisors to demand a living wage

  In the most disruptive protest yet, essential workers escalated their call for a $20 minimum wage floor, again speaking up in a public board meeting and again closing down Temple Street to lift up this unmet demand.  In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) caregivers demonstrated at...

  Los AngelesBoard of SupervisorsTimeFor$20Region 1
• Press Release | October 4, 2022

  Los Angeles Home Care Providers turn up the heat—including taking arrest—as they return to the Board of Supervisors to demand a living wage

  In the most disruptive protest yet, essential workers escalated their call for a $20 minimum wage floor, again speaking up in a public board meeting, again closing down Temple Street, and sitting in the street as an act of civil...

  Home Care ProvidersRegion 1Board of SupervisorsLos Angeles
• Press Coverage | September 29, 2022

  Los Angeles Home Care Providers Hold Action at LA County Board of Supervisors’ Chambers News Coverage

  

  On Tuesday, May 27, 2022, at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ first in-person public hearing in more than two years, In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) caregivers in the county escalated their insistence that the Board of Supervisors invest in-home...

  Region 1
• Press Release | September 27, 2022

  Los Angeles Home Care Providers Hold Action at LA County Board of Supervisors’ Chambers During First In-Person Public Meeting in 2+ Years

  Essential in-home care providers—members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 nursing home and home care workers—escalated their call for a $20 minimum wage floor  LOS ANGELES, CA—Today, at the Los Angeles County...

  Los AngelesRegion 1LA County Board of Supervisors
• Press Coverage | September 6, 2022

  News coverage from our L.A. “Time for $20” IHSS Labor Day A-C-T-I-O-N!

  

  More than 1,200 IHSS workers and supporters shut down the street in front of the Board of Supervisors office to perform street theater dramatizing the twin issues of low wages and lack of care providers. Union members continued to draw...

  Region 1Los AngelesTimeFor$20
• Press Release | September 5, 2022

  Home Care Providers Close Down Temple Street for Labor Day Rally at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Office in Escalation of Their “Time for $20” Campaign

  Joined by elected officials Senator Maria Elena Durazo, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago and others, street theater performers, IHSS consumers and local Korean Drummers, members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 long-term care workers in...

  Los AngelesTimeFor$20Region 1
• Union Updates | August 23, 2022

  Democracy Schools are back!

  

  Join your fellow caregivers and register for this year’s Democracy schools!  We want to give caregivers the tools they need to empower their friends and family to show up and VOTE. When we all vote, we win by electing champions...

  Democracy For AllRegion 1