Tag: Trump

• Press Statement | April 8, 2025

  Trump Uses IRS to Target Tax-Paying Families,Exposing the Lies Behind MAGA Deportation Machine

  SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California responded to the reported agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to share sensitive information about taxpayers and their families with the Trump deportation machine. David Huerta, President of SEIU California and...

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• Press Release | March 20, 2025

  Trump’s Dept. of Education Shutdown Advances Billionaire Agenda, Making Our Students & Schools Pay

  SACRAMENTO, CA – SEIU California today rebuked Trump’s Executive Order attempting to shut down the U.S. Department of Education in all but name without Congressional approval. According to Ed Source, California schools received $8 billion in federal funding last budget year,...

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• Press Coverage | March 12, 2025

  If Trump cuts Medicaid, this California Republican’s House seat would be imperiled

  

  Rep. David Valadao faced a no-win decision last month: Fall into line behind President Trump and vote for a budget resolution that would almost certainly cut into Medicaid funding, risking his constituents’ wrath; or vote against it, catapulting his party...

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• Press Coverage | March 10, 2025

  The caregiving industry relies on immigrants. These workers fear deportation under Trump

  

  A homecare worker wakes at 3:30 a.m., showers, and prepares for a more than 10-hour day of attending to her clients. She cooks. She cleans. She replaces catheter bags. She bathes her clients, checks their blood pressure, and ensures they take...

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• Press Coverage | February 15, 2025

  Redding to join national protest against President Trump’s policies

  

  As people opposed to recent anti-immigration and other policies coming from President Trump prepare to take part in a series of protests across the country on Monday, local activists will be joining the effort in Redding. An email being circulated...

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• Press Coverage | January 23, 2025

  San Jose: 600 march against Trump’s agenda

  

  San Jose, CA – On MLK Day, upwards of 600 San Jose residents came out to protest Trump's inauguration and fight back against his anti-immigrant agenda. The protest mobilized a broad array of progressive organizations in the South Bay, all...

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• Press Coverage | January 9, 2025

  Trump’s immigration plans could imperil long-term care workforce

  

  Demand for direct care workers will grow by 35 percent to 41 percent between 2022 and 2037, according to some projections. President-elect Donald Trump’s vowed crackdown on immigration could strain an already struggling elder care workforce that relies on foreign-born...

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• Press Coverage | November 13, 2024

  Trump’s Immigration Plans Could Bring an Economic Toll

  

  Arnulfo De La Cruz is the president of SEIU 2015, a union that represents about 500,000 long-term caregivers in California’s program for low-income seniors. Nearly half of in-home care workers in the state are immigrants, he said, many with temporary...

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• Press Statement | September 18, 2024

  SEIU’s Verrett condemns MAGA attacks on Haitian immigrants: ‘Racism has no place in our society’

  

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — April Verrett, International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement in response to escalating, racist attacks on Haitian immigrants perpetuated by former President Donald Trump and Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance: “Immigrants are –...

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• Press Coverage | September 3, 2024

  Harris contra Trump: La agenda laboral

  

  El día después del Día del Trabajo, analistas debaten la agenda laboral detrás de las dos principales campañas presidenciales. Examinan el Proyecto 2025, un plan diseñado por exfuncionarios de la administración Trump que prohibiría los sindicatos para los trabajadores de...

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• Press Coverage | Covid-19 News | April 2, 2020

  ‘Please, please, please step up:’ Union, employer make joint appeal to Trump on face masks

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