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Capital & Main | May 8, 2025

The Unkindest Cut: Slashing Medicaid Threatens the Medically Vulnerable

For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare...

IHSS Tulare County Region 6 Medicaid Cuts Republican Budget Cuts
May 7, 2025

News Coverage of Longtime Santa Cruz resident’s immigration detention sparks protests ahead of court hearing in Washington state

Cliona Ward, a longtime Santa Cruz resident, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on April 21, 2025, after returning from Ireland where she was visiting her sick father. Lookout Santa Cruz:Longtime Santa Cruz resident's immigration detention sparks...

Region 3 Santa Cruz Immigration ICE Green Card
May 6, 2025

LA County IHSS Campaign Updates

LA IHSS Campaign Update Latest update 5/6/2025 LA County IHSS care providers gathered at the Board of Supervisors to make their voices heard and demand to invest in the Future of Care. Los Angeles County IHSS providers returned to the...

Livable Wage Board of Supervisors Region 1 LA Los Angeles
May 6, 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 Santa Clara Region 5
May 6, 2025

Santa Clara County home care workers rally, urging Supervisors to address the care crisis by raising wages

New survey reveals impact of low wages among county IHSS workforce amid provider shortage Santa Clara County, CA – Today, nearly 150 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than...

Santa Clara County Region 5 Santa Clara IHSS
May 5, 2025

Home care workers rally for livable wages to address Santa Clara County’s growing long-term care crisis

**MEDIA ADVISORY** WHEN: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 8:30 AM: Over 150 home care workers and allies rally outside of the Santa Clara County Government Center. SEIU 2015 home care workers are available for media interviews. 9:30 AM: Home care workers provide public comment at...

Santa Clara County Region 5 Santa Clara
Shasta Scout | May 5, 2025

Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

Rachel Smith has a psychology degree and gave up her job doing nails to take care of her son with cerebral palsy. She’s one of 11 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers who spoke at an April 8 Shasta County Board...

IHSS Shasta Board of Supervisors Living Wage
Shasta Scout | May 5, 2025

Despite Stalled Contract Negotiations, Shasta’s IHSS Workers Don’t Plan to Strike

More than 4,000 Shasta County community members work for a program known as In-Home Health Services. While IHSS workers are legally allowed to strike once their contract expires, local workers are pursuing other forms of negotiation instead — out of...

Region 6 Shasta County
May 1, 2025

Statewide Coverage of 2025 May Day Actions

May 1st, 2025, members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union, and California’s largest labor union representing more than half a million care workers across California—are gathering for May Day also known as International Workers’ Day to...

May Day Immigration Rights Federal Workers
April 30, 2025

April 2025 Member Newsletter

Celebrating May Day May Day has long been a powerful day of action for working people across the globe. It’s a time to honor the labor movement’s historic fights for dignity, livable wages, and safe working conditions. On May 1st,...

Newsletter All Regions
April 29, 2025

Our Care Counts 2025

Caregivers are the Defenders and the Future of Care IHSS providers and nursing home workers are coming together to protect, defend and transform the care hundreds of thousands of older Californians and those living with disabilities rely on by: Stopping...

All Regions IHSS California Statewide Bargaining