The Latest from Our Union

December 20, 2023

Brius Nursing Home Campaign: Contract Ratification!

Click here to see our latest KTLA press coverage Click here to see photos PRESS RELEASE on Tentative Agreement In 2023, after months of bargaining and delivering a 10-day notice of intent to strike in October 2023, nursing home union...

Nursing Homes Livable Wage Region 1
December 20, 2023

LA Area nursing home workers who threatened to strike reach ratification agreement with employer

Southern California—After months of bargaining and delivering a 10-day notice of intent to strike in October (10-day strike notice press release), nursing home union members from SEIU Local 2015 ratified contract agreements with management in December. Nursing home workers sought...

Nursing Homes Region 1
December 19, 2023

Sacramento IHSS Neighborhood Blitz

In November, Sacramento IHSS providers celebrated National Family Caregivers Month with two powerful actions. At the November 7th Board of Supervisors meeting, members delivered powerful public testimony about the urgent need for livable wages for IHSS providers. Our collective voice...

IHSS Sacramento Livable Wage Region 4 Actions
December 19, 2023

Long-term care providers, going 11 years without a contract, speak out for higher wages and solutions to Tehama County’s caregiver shortage

Red Bluff, CA – Today, members of SEIU Local 2015 – the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing nearly 450,000 nursing home workers and home care providers – spoke out to demand higher wages and...

Livable Wage Region 6 Tehama County
December 12, 2023

Fresno County long term care workers rally at Board of Supervisors office, reject poverty wages and scrapped healthcare proposal

Fresno County, CA – Today, Fresno In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, members of SEIU Local 2015—the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing nearly 450,000 nursing home workers and home care providers—rallied at the Fresno County...

Fresno County Board of Supervisors Livable Wage Region 3
December 11, 2023

Fresno County long-term care providers to rally, reject poverty wages and scrapped healthcare proposed by Board of Supervisors

WHEN: Tuesday, December 12, 2023Time: 8:30 AM WHERE:Fresno County Board of Supervisors, 2281 Tulare St, Fresno 93724 WHO:Long-term care workers (members of SEIU 2015); Supporters and allies of the SEIU Local 2015 community. WHAT: Fresno In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, long-term...

Livable Wage Region 3 Fresno County Board of Supervisors
December 7, 2023

Apple Valley nursing home workers form their union with SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care local

Apple Valley, California—After months of organizing, nursing home workers at Apple Valley Care Center voted overwhelmingly—94% yes!—to form their union with SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term caregivers union. A total of 93 members of the bargaining unit that included...

Livable Wage Understaffing Apple Valley Care
December 7, 2023

PPIC Poll: Voters Overwhelmingly Support SEIU Member-led Referendum Reforms

Sacramento, CA – A new poll released late yesterday from the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California found California voters are overwhelmingly supportive of reforms to the referendum process that were signed into law this year. SEIU members, alongside community...

PPIC AB 421
Sacramento Business Journal | December 5, 2023

Health Care Lags Behind

An analysis by the Sacramento Business Journal found that the workers who commanded the most headlines during the pandemic saw some of the lowest pay growth of any industry in the private sector.

Kim Evon Healthcare Workers Livable Wage
LA Times | December 4, 2023

Are immigrants happier in Texas or California? It’s surprising

Growing up in California’s capital, she excelled in school. She volunteered, racking up more than 2,000 hours of extracurriculars by the time she graduated. She collected toys for the children’s hospital that helped her brother after he fell from a...

Immigration Los Angeles
November 30, 2023

News coverage of Marin County Supervisor’s move to raise the living wage to $18/hour

Marin County, CA – On November 7, Marin County Supervisors authorized a 7% increase to the County’s living wage, raising the wage from $16.80 an hour to $18 an hour effective January 2024. As a result of this increase, Marin...

Region 5 Marin Livable Wage