Tag: Region 5

• Medium | April 4, 2023

  “I love being a caregiver — but living in Oakland means living paycheck to paycheck.”

  

  For Oakland home care provider Juliann Coulter, caregiving is a labor of love. She’s done it for decades. She first got her start as a caregiver in the early 1990s, caring for her mother-in-law, who suffered from osteoporosis. The experience of...

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• Victory | Press Coverage | December 19, 2022

  Nursing home workers announce agreement with Providence Health

  

  This new agreement covers over 3,000 nursing home workers in the San Francisco Bay area. The 3-year contract includes health benefits, enhanced retirement benefits, and retention bonuses. You can find the podcast online at  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqed-newscast/id1474287154?i=1000590694235.

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• Press Release | November 7, 2022

  Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Reaches Tentative Agreement on New Union Contract; Will Make“ Time for $20” a Reality for In-Home Care Providers

  Another Milestone in SEIU 2015’s Statewide “Time for $20” Campaign, the Union Calls on Other California Jurisdictions to Join Contra Costa County in Providing Essential Caregivers with Living Wages Contra Costa County, CA – On October 28, the Contra Costa County...

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• Union Updates | August 31, 2022

  Contra Costa IHSS Contract Negotiations

  Right now, SEIU Local 2015 is bargaining with Contra Costa County to fight for IHSS workers and ensure the county raises wages, protects their workers, and provide the benefits IHSS workers need. Check out our bargaining updates below! Updates for...

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• 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...

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• Union Updates | Events | August 10, 2022

  Join the Providence Pickets!

  

  Sisters and Brothers, Today, 500 workers up and down the state are joining pickets and actions on Providence. It’s a day to stand strong and stand together. We’re not doing this because we want to, or because someone at the...

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• Press Coverage | May 9, 2022

  Alameda County’s 6,000 Chinese-American nurses are getting a pay rise, expected to take effect in September

  

  阿拉米達縣6000華裔護工要漲薪了 預計9月生效 長期家庭護理工會（SEIU 2015）本周與阿拉米達縣達成初步協議，家庭護工在未來三年內漲薪18%，在2025年1月1日達到時薪20元的水準。 阿縣目前有2萬1000個護工，其中四分之一為亞裔，多數為華裔。華裔護工約6000人。做了20多年家庭護工的華人朱麗霞（Lisa Zhu）5日呼籲更多同事加入工會，也希望工會為會員爭取退休金等更多福利。

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• Press Release | April 27, 2022

  Alameda County In-Home Care Providers—Mostly Women of Color—Make “Time for $20” a Reality with an 18% Wage Increase in New Union Contract

  A Milestone in the Union’s Statewide “Time for $20” Campaign, Union Calls on Other California Counties to Raise Wages as Workers Leave Industry. Alameda County, CA–In response to calls for immediate investments in long-term care workers to put them on the...

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• Press Release | April 12, 2022

  Home Care Providers – Members of SEIU Local 2015 – Rally at Alameda County Board of Supervisors Office to Say It’s “Time for $20”

  Members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 nursing home and home care workers, rallied for a $20 per hour living wage floor and improved healthcare and training for essential in-home caregivers Oakland, CA,...

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• Press Coverage | Video | March 28, 2022

  Statewide Actions for Nursing Home Quality

  The nursing home industry nationwide has lost more than 238,000 jobs since the start of the pandemic. That’s why we’ve worked to create the ​​Skilled Nursing Quality Standards Board and why we’re taking action today up and down the state....

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• Press Coverage | December 23, 2021

  Alameda County In-Home Caretakers Seek $20 Wage, More Accessible Health Care

  

  According to Lupe Martinez, who is SEIU 2015’s chief negotiator, many caretakers work well over 80 hours a month, but don’t receive healthcare, because much of those hours are off the books. As a result, many caretakers are effectively working...

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