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Alameda Post | December 2, 2025

Alameda Healthcare Nursing Home Workers Want to Join Union

Employees picketed the Alameda Healthcare and Wellness Facility on Willow Street last week to press their demands for better working conditions, pay, and patient safety. The effort is being organized by Service Employees International Union, local 2015, which represents more than 500,000...

Alameda Region 5 Alameda Healthcare
Spectrum News 1 | December 2, 2025

Home caregivers receive training through local center to help fill in-home services gap

LOS ANGELES — According to the California Department of Aging, by 2040 the number of Californians living with Alzheimer’s and dementia will increase by 127%, in Los Angeles, 135%. However, California will face a shortage of 3.2 million paid care workers in the coming...

CCA IHSS Training
November 26, 2025

IHSS Grant Scam Alert

The California Department of Social Services has issued an urgent alert about a scam targeting IHSS providers and recipients. Scammers are circulating false messages claiming that IHSS participants can receive a financial “grant” after paying a 500 dollar fee. This...
Bay Area Current | November 20, 2025

Why the Largest Unorganized Bay Area Nursing Facility Is Unionizing

Workers at billionaire-owned Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center say they want better wages and benefits so patients can get the dignified care they deserve. And in a rare move, a major union opened its strike fund for workers fighting for...
November 20, 2025

Nursing Home Workers at Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center Picket to Demand a Union

Alameda, CA – Nursing home workers at Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center continued their picket today as they demand safe working conditions and union recognition. Workers are seeking representation from SEIU Local 2015, the largest union in California, which represents...

Region 5 Labor Alameda
November 19, 2025

Trinity In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Campaign Updates

In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a social service that allows people who need long-term care to receive it in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In Trinity County, approximately 200 IHSS workers provide long-term care services—including household work,...

Region 6 Trinity IHSS
November 5, 2025

A San Francisco Coalition Introduces The “Overpaid CEO Act” to Protect Critical City Services

Building on recent victories across California and the nation, our San Francisco community has an opportunity to continue standing up to the Trump administration and safeguard critical local programs. (San Francisco, CA) “Stand Up for SF” is a broad coalition of...

Region 5 San Francisco
November 5, 2025

Caregivers for Democracy: SEIU Local 2015 Celebrates Passage of Proposition 50

Caregivers mobilized statewide to defend democracy and ensure working families’ voices are heard Los Angeles, CA – SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest union representing more than half a million long-term care providers, today celebrated the passage of Proposition 50, the...

Prop 50 Democracy Politics
November 2, 2025

Nursing Home Workers Say Management at La Brea Rehab is “Ghosting” Care Improvements & “Working Them to the Bone” at Halloween Picket

LOS ANGELES (October 31, 2025)—Dressed in Halloween costumes but sending a serious message, care workers at La Brea Rehabilitation Center took to the picket line today to demand that management stop ghosting its responsibility to invest in its workforce and...

Region 1 Pickets Nursing Homes
October 28, 2025

Santa Clara County IHSS Campaign Updates

In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a social service that allows people who need long-term care to receive it in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In Santa Clara County, over 36,000 IHSS workers provide long-term care services (including...

IHSS Region 5 Santa Clara
Caló News | October 27, 2025

‘Homeless twice,’ without investment in care, it could happen again, says LA County caregiver

“I’ve been a caregiver for 12 years, it has not been an easy journey but I truly believe in my heart that any human being should have quality of life, and this is why I chose to do this kind...

Livable Wage Region 1