The Latest from Our Union

July 25, 2022

Retention Payments Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What are retention payments?A: Retention payments were achieved through Senate Bill 184 by SEIU California and the help of our affiliates. The purpose of the retention payments are 1) to recognize the hard work by California health workers in...
LA Sentinel | July 21, 2022

SEIU’s April Verrett Leading the Fight for California Workers

The care for union workers is in her blood. Most Angelenos know the work of newly-elected Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Secretary-Treasurer April Verrett. Verrett is a Southside Chicago native, who has a long history of working on behalf of...

April Verrett Labor
July 11, 2022

Kings County In-Home Care Providers—Mostly Women—Achieve Wage Increase and Stronger Benefits in New Tentative Agreement

A victory in the Union’s statewide campaign to raise wages for these heroes; Kings County In-Home Supportive Services workers reach tentative agreement on their union contract Kings County, CA – SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing...

Kings County Region 3
July 8, 2022

Nearly 200 Home Care Providers vote “YES!” to form their union with SEIU 2015, California’s largest union and Nation’s largest long-term care worker union

San Luis Obispo/Thousand Oaks/Tustin, CA— Caregivers in San Luis Obispo, Thousand Oaks, and Tustin—all employees of BrightSpring/All Ways Caring—voted today by overwhelming majority to form their union with SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union. BrightSpring is a private...

California Labor
July 7, 2022

Nursing Home Workers Picket at Los Angeles Long-Term Care Facility to Stop Skyrocketing Turnover

As workers flee the long-term care industry, NewGen Health employees—members of SEIU Local 2015—picket at Fountain View SubAcute and Nursing Center to fight for a strong contract that improves workplace conditions, pay, and benefits Los Angeles, CA – Today, nursing...

Nursing Homes Region 1
July 7, 2022

Press coverage of our July 7 nursing home picket at NewGen’s Fountain View

Los Angeles, CA – Nursing home workers of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 long-term care workers in California, picketed at the Fountain View SubAcute and Nursing Center in Los Angeles to call for...

Los Angeles Fountain View NewGen Nursing Homes
July 1, 2022

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

Surrounding community will now have a safer nursing home, studies show. Pasadena, CA—Nursing Home professionals employed at Terraces at Park Marino voted today to form their union with SEIU 2015, California’s largest long-term care Union. All 50 full‐time, regular part‐time and...

Pasadena Nursing Homes
June 30, 2022

Some really good news for long-term care in the state budget

We’re excited to share our major victories in the state budget the Governor recently signed because of your hard work and dedication! One of our most significant achievements this year was securing retention payments for nursing home workers who battled...

Put Care First Campaign Democracy For All Fight for $15
Los Angeles Sentinel | June 30, 2022

April Verrett Unanimously Elected as Secretary Treasurer of SEIU International Board

The Service Employees International Union’s International Executive Board voted unanimously June 24, to elect April Verrett as secretary-treasurer and Joseph Bryant as executive vice president, adding two dynamic young leaders to President Mary Kay Henry’s leadership team as SEIU intensifies...

SEIU April Verrett
June 28, 2022

Home Care Workers Rally at the San Benito County Board of Supervisors’ Office in Escalation of their Contract Bargaining Efforts

Members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 long-term care workers in California, rallied for improved healthcare and training for essential in-home caregivers in San Benito. San Benito, CA, Tuesday, June 28th – Today,...

Board of Supervisors San Benito County Home Care Workers Healthcare Benefits Region 3
The Copper Courier | June 27, 2022

An Arizona Home Care Worker Speaks on the Dark Side of the Profession

“There’s no middle class anymore when it comes to home care.” Joan Steede has worked in the homecare industry for around 30 years. She’s spent the last decade providing hospice home care in the Phoenix area. She visits people’s homes and...

Home Care Home Care Workers