Home care workers who provide assistance to elderly and disabled Californians could see more wage equality, according to a recent labor report, by shifting contract negotiations to the state level instead of bargaining individually with California’s 56 individual counties.
Currently, home care workers who staff one of the state’s largest, and most expensive, health and human services programs are represented by two unions, Service Employees International Union and United Domestic Workers. Those labor groups negotiate with individual counties across the state on behalf of the home care workers, who often care for relatives.
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