The Latest from Our Union

September 6, 2022

News coverage from our L.A. “Time for $20” IHSS Labor Day A-C-T-I-O-N!

More than 1,200 IHSS workers and supporters shut down the street in front of the Board of Supervisors office to perform street theater dramatizing the twin issues of low wages and lack of care providers. Union members continued to draw...

Los Angeles TimeFor$20 Region 1
September 5, 2022

Home Care Providers Close Down Temple Street for Labor Day Rally at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Office in Escalation of Their “Time for $20” Campaign

Joined by elected officials Senator Maria Elena Durazo, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago and others, street theater performers, IHSS consumers and local Korean Drummers, members of SEIU 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union representing more than 400,000 long-term care workers in...

TimeFor$20 Los Angeles Region 1
Ms. Magazine | September 2, 2022

Vetoing Investments in Care Work, Republicans Again Fail to Pay and Respect Women

In the autumn of last year, I felt hopeful. The work I do providing in-home care was elevated in President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan. BBB acknowledged the deferred maintenance in our nation’s infrastructure and the urgent need to...

Women of Color Build Back Better Issues Affecting Women
August 31, 2022

CA Legislature Extends Essential COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave to Workers

Sacramento, CA – Today, the California Labor Federation, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Western States Council came together to applaud the California Legislature’s passage of AB 152/SB 136 to extend COVID-19...

Covid Paid Sick Leave
August 31, 2022

Contra Costa IHSS Contract Negotiations

Right now, SEIU Local 2015 is bargaining with Contra Costa County to fight for IHSS workers and ensure the county raises wages, protects their workers, and provide the benefits IHSS workers need. Check out our bargaining updates below! Updates for...

Region 5
Times Standard | August 31, 2022

IHSS workers demand a raise, health care at county supes meeting

Members of the local health care workers union returned to the county supervisors’ meeting on Tuesday demanding health care and better pay, which they say are not cutting it given the difficulty of their jobs and spiraling inflation. Members of...

IHSS Salary Increase
Bloomberg Industry | August 26, 2022

California Fast-Food Giants Dodge Liability for Labor Lapses

Corporate chain responsibility stripped from legislationBill to better fast-food work conditions must pass by Aug. 31 McDonald’s and other fast-food corporations won a major concession in the California Assembly as the authors of a bill to address labor violations scaled...

April Verrett Better Working Conditions AB 257
August 23, 2022

Democracy Schools are back!

Join your fellow caregivers and register for this year’s Democracy schools! We want to give caregivers the tools they need to empower their friends and family to show up and VOTE. When we all vote, we win by electing champions...

Democracy For All All Regions
August 23, 2022

Democracy Schools are back!

Join your fellow caregivers and register for this year’s Democracy schools! We want to give caregivers the tools they need to empower their friends and family to show up and VOTE. When we all vote, we win by electing champions...

Region 1 Democracy For All
August 23, 2022

Democracy Schools are back!

Join your fellow caregivers and register for this year’s Democracy schools! We want to give caregivers the tools they need to empower their friends and family to show up and VOTE. When we all vote, we win by electing champions...

Democracy For All Region 5
August 23, 2022

Democracy Schools are back!

Join your fellow caregivers and register for this year’s Democracy schools! We want to give caregivers the tools they need to empower their friends and family to show up and VOTE. When we all vote, we win by electing champions...

Democracy For All Region 4