26,000 Home Health Care Workers Vote on SEIU Membership: ULTCW Members, From Ventura and San Bernardino Counties, Travel to Minnesota to Volunteer in Support of the Process Vowing to be Invisible No More, homecare workers are seeking better pay, respect for their work, and improved care for recipients. People with disabilities who receive home care services have also been making clear why they strongly support home care workers efforts to come together and form a union. Personal care assistants, direct support professionals, and disability activists gathered on July 11, with homecare clients and program supporters, at the Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services to file a request for an election to form a statewide homecare workers union. Thousands of homecare workers signed cards in support of forming a union in order to win improvements to their jobs, as well as to the care they provide for elderly and disabled Minnesotans. Homecare workers have been organizing to improve their jobs and Minnesota’s home care programs for years, and won the right to form a union under state law last year. If a majority of those voting choose to unionize, they will be represented by SEIU Healthcare Minnesota, which currently represents more than 15,000 healthcare workers in hospitals, clinics and nursing homes throughout Minnesota. It is part of the Service Employees International Union, which represents 30,000 workers across Minnesota, 1.2 million members in the health care industry nationwide, and 2.1 million service employees in total. The Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services mailed ballots on Aug. 1 to all eligible voters: Personal care assistants and other home care workers providing direct support services through client-directed Medicaid programs including PCA Choice, Consumer Directed Community Supports (CDCS), and Consumer Support Grants. All ballots must be returned to the Bureau office no later than August 25, when ballots will be counted. With 26,000 participants, this constitutes the largest union election in Minnesota history. Voting is currently taking place by mail. Yet to ensure that the vast majority of eligible caregivers take part in this historic election, volunteers have been arriving from all across the country to assist in the process of calling and knocking on doors. Leading the way, 14 ULTCW Member Leaders have traveled to Minnesota from Southern Californias Ventura and San Bernardino Counties, and plan to remain there for the entire month! We want to recognize these Member Leaders for their tremendous example: You are truly demonstrating our highest principles and values through your actions! #ThankYou #InSolidarity
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:31:28 +0000
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