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UDW Culinary Arts Academy teaches IHSS providers valuable new skills

On Saturday, UDW held a graduation ceremony at our headquarters in San Diego for the first class of the UDW

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UDW Culinary Arts Academy offers formerly incarcerated free training to reenter workforce

For Immediate Release Saturday, July 9, 2016 San Diego – Today at the United Domestic Workers of America/AFSCME Local 3930

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Turning sadness and rage into collective action

Statement by UDW Executive Director Doug Moore in response to the deaths of police officers in Dallas, Texas on Thursday

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Say their names: Philando Castile and Alton Sterling

Statement by UDW Executive Director Doug Moore in response to deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling: Today we’re enraged

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Proud to be an LGBTQ+ caregiver

By R. Andrew Daniel, IHSS provider, San Diego County During LGBTQ+ Pride Month, I like to take a look back

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State budget fully funds in-home care for three more years

Statement by UDW Executive Director Doug Moore in response to the 2016-17 California state budget: Today we celebrate another hard-won

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Medical interpreters help California speak the language of care

California has taken an important step forward in increasing vital services that save lives. This week, the governor signed into

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Child Care Workers and Parents Secure Landmark Budget Investment in Early Learning for California Kids, Support for Working Parents

For Immediate Release  June 27, 2016 Contact: Mike Roth, 916.444.7170 Sacramento, CA – The Raising California Together Coalition released the following statement from

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Retirement savings for IHSS providers

When Madera County caregiver Cynthia Wilson’s IHSS paycheck didn’t arrive on time in January, she and her grandson lost their

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I’m denied basic retirement security just because my home care client is my spouse

My husband David’s meningitis caused paralysis on the left side of his body and several neurological problems. For a while

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Next step: child care rate increases

Last night, UDW child care providers across the state and at our offices in Orange and Sacramento counties attended our

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Home care is real work, and real work deserves real retirement security

When my daughter Delaina was in second grade, an undiagnosed tumor in her brain hemorrhaged and left her with brain

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Victory! State budget stops cuts to IHSS for three more years

Update: On June 27, 2016, Governor Brown signed the state budget into law. The restoration of the 7% cut to

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UDW statement on Orlando massacre: “Now is the time for true solidarity”

UDW Executive Director Doug Moore released the following statement in response to the massacre of 49 people at an LGBTQ

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Our voices: Social Security for IHSS parent and spouse providers

UDW asked and you answered! Hundreds of spouse and parent caregivers have responded to UDW’s survey on how ineligibility for

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Demanding dignity and respect for spouse and parent home care providers

My husband Leon is 69 years old and lives with COPD and cirrhosis of the liver. My full-time job since

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Update on our work to improve overtime implementation

After decades of exclusion from Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protections, home care providers won overtime pay for the first

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One way to fix our country’s child care crisis: invest in family child care providers

By Doug Moore, UDW Executive Director Gloria Carter has run a home-based daycare in Sacramento County for over 20 years.

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UDW caregivers advocate for ballot measure that will make our communities safer

California prisons are overcrowded and use massive amounts of taxpayer dollars. In fact, as a state, we spend almost 10%

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Without Social Security, I may never be able to retire

My 39-year-old son Jacob was born with a brainstem defect. He relies on me 24/7 to provide for all of

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Honoring older Americans in May and everyday

May is Older Americans Month, and at 73-years-old, my mother is part of one of this country’s greatest—and largest—generations. In

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