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SacTowntalks.simplecast.com | October 23, 2020

Interview with April Verrett

Today’s guest is April Verrett, the President of SEIU Local 2015. SEIU Local 2015 represents 400,000 long term care workers across CA, the largest local union in CA, the largest long term care union in the US, and 2nd largest...

April Verrett Covid
October 16, 2020

SEIU Local 2015 Ratifies Contract with the Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, Guaranteeing 2% Increase in Wages for all Workers

After Months of Bargaining, the Nation’s Largest Long Term Care Union Reaches Agreement to Increase Wages, Overtime, and Expand Healthcare (Delano, CA) - SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest union representing long term caregivers throughout the state, today announced a new...
September 30, 2020

April Verrett, President Of SEIU Local 2015 – The Nation’s Largest Long Term Care Union Briefs The House Committee On Education And Labor

Briefing Highlights COVID-19 Impact on Home Care Workers and Exposure of Pre-Existing Problems Across the IHSS System Los Angeles, CA -- September 30, 2020 -- Today, April Verrett, President of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long term caregivers union...
Medium | September 25, 2020

What Biden’s Care Plan means for Caregivers

In previous election cycles, long term and senior caregivers have taken the back seat to other pressing issues. This year, with the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately threatening seniors and individuals with pre-existing conditions, long term caregiving has been given a spotlight...

Election 2020 Caregiving Healthcare
September 17, 2020

SEIU Local 2015 California’s Largest Union Launches Voter Contact Efforts In Eight Different Languages

Los Angeles, CA -- September 17, 2020 -- SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest labor union representing 400,000 nursing home and home care workers throughout California and one of the largest immigrant unions in the country, has officially launched its sweeping...
NYtimes.com | September 10, 2020

The Striking Racial Divide in How Covid-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes

Homes with a significant number of black and Latino residents have been twice as likely to be hit by the coronavirus as those where the population is overwhelmingly white.

Nursing Homes Covid
Medium | September 4, 2020

Senator Mitchell, Council Ransom, and SMUD Board Fishman Sign Homecare Workers Day Pledge

On Home Care 2020, Senator Holly Mitchell, Tracy City Council member Rhodesia Ransom, and SMUD Board member Gregg Fishman are celebrating and recognizing the home care workers united in SEIU Local 2015 and our vital role in the COVID-19 response helping our nation’s seniors and...

Politics IHSS Home Care Covid
Cheddar.com | September 4, 2020

Largest Long-term Care Union Raising Awareness Ahead of Labor Day

The nation's largest long term care union SEIU Local 2015 is raising awareness about the rights of frontline workers with labor day just around the corner. Arnulfo De La Cruz, Executive Vice President of SEIU Local 2015, joined Cheddar to...

Nursing Homes IHSS Private Agency
Time.com | August 24, 2020

Home Care Workers Are Now Called Essential. But the History of the Profession Shows That the U.S. Has Never Treated Them as Such

Since the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, one of the groups that has been repeatedly identified as “essential” is home care workers, those who provide assistance with activities of daily living to the elderly, chronically ill and persons with disabilities....

April Verrett IHSS
Time.com | August 24, 2020

Home Care Workers Are Now Called Essential. But the History of the Profession Shows That the U.S. Has Never Treated Them as Such

Since the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, one of the groups that has been repeatedly identified as “essential” is home care workers, those who provide assistance with activities of daily living to the elderly, chronically ill and persons with disabilities....

Covid IHSS
RecordNet.com | August 13, 2020

In-home health workers plead for better pay

STOCKTON — Anjeneau Ward, an in-home health care worker, stood before the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors at their Tuesday morning meeting and made a heartfelt plea for a higher wage. “Between paying rent, utilities, back-to-school clothes, back-to-school supplies,...

Arnulfo De La Cruz