SEIU Locals Help Organize Nevada Homecare Workers

Revealed: June 27, 2022

Members and employees from SEIU 503 have been a part of a bunch of SEIU locals that traveled to Las Vegas this month to arrange homecare staff in Nevada for higher wages and dealing situations. Pay for staff averages solely $11 an hour, and employees don’t have any advantages similar to trip, sick pay, or medical health insurance. It was laborious work, however in the long run, SEIU members and employees who made the journey stated they have been capable of finding broad assist for unionizing homecare staff all over the place they went.  

“Some days we confronted uphill battles and we felt utterly defeated, however that did NOT cease us from waking up the following day extra keen and pushed to maintain getting these one-on-one conversations with homecare suppliers,” stated SEIU 503 member chief Renae Hill.   

The grass-roots marketing campaign concerned knocking on doorways and gathering union authorization playing cards from homecare staff, no simple activity given the excessive turnover charge within the sector. The efforts to unionize homecare staff in Nevada will proceed.