SEIU Local 2015 is the largest union in California, representing more than half a million long-term care workers (home care, skilled nursing facility, and assisted living center workers) throughout the state. We are also the largest long-term care union in the U.S. and the largest local union in SEIU.
Our members are as diverse as the state’s population but united in their commitment to caring for California’s older adults and those with disabilities.
Our Mission
SEIU Local 2015 is California’s Long Term Care workers organization that will unleash the collective power of long term care workers, their families, and their communities, harness the power of technology, and build a broad movement to disrupt the unjust status quo in order to bring lasting transformational change towards a more just society for all.
Our Vision
SEIU Local 2015 is a diverse, ethical, and transparent 21st Century worker organization leading with vision, understanding, clarity, and agility, thereby thriving in an ever-changing world. Through the work of our members, by building partnerships, and embracing innovation and education, SEIU Local 2015 long term care workers will have achieved quality jobs that deliver livable wages, retirement security, respect, and the right to a union for all. SEIU Local 2015 will have placed the new American Dream within reach by ensuring the accessibility of quality long term care for seniors and people with disabilities, and securing a quality life for our communities which includes access to affordable quality healthcare and housing, safe neighborhoods, educational opportunities, and racial and environmental justice.
Our Values
Leadership shows up when we organize others around a vision, take courageous action, build powerfully diverse relationships and inclusive teams, are accountable to results, are committed to demonstrating ethical standards and culture, and when we inspire others to learn more, dream more, do more and become more.
Compassion shows up when we create space in our hearts and minds to empathize with the suffering and challenges of others and reveal a pathway for solutions.
Empowerment shows up when every worker is given the opportunity to discover their leadership potential and exercise it on behalf of others.
Accountability shows up when we exercise every day self-reflection, ownership, and responsibility for one’s words, ideas and actions.
Transparency shows up when we ensure that open communication at all levels is used and promoted to build lasting trust among our members and for their organization.
Excellence shows up when we demonstrate the ability to find lessons in our successes and failures, opportunities to learn each day, and the desire to always strive for improvement.
Our Justice Agenda
Local 2015 members have declared the following as being key priorities for our members’ futures and the future of our organization:
Racial & Economic Justice
Persistent and growing income inequality and attacks on workers’ rights that we have experienced for decades require us to take action. We must recognize that these historical inequities are rooted in our country’s legacy of slavery, and can only be uprooted by dismantling the systems and structures of racism plaguing our country’s economy. Read more…
Housing Justice
Members of Local 2015 have stated this as a critical issue and this crisis faced by working Californians crosses geography, class, race and ethnicity. Without the security of having a roof over one’s head there is very little hope of achieving your hopes and dreams. Affordable housing for working people is key to restoring our communities. Read more…
Immigrant Justice
America’s immigration system is broken. We must protect against leaders who would choose to profit for themselves more than value all lives. We believe in the respect and dignity of immigrants; that a modernized immigration system that includes a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants will strengthen our families, our communities and our country. Read more…
Restorative Justice
Today our criminal justice system produces very little justice. People of color and those living in poverty fare far worse than most. The entire system – policing, the courts, prisons and recidivism – needs to be transformed into one that is fair and equitable for everyone. Our vision is a system that focuses on real second chances rather than punishment alone. Read more…
Environmental Justice
It is an injustice that in California your zip code, race and income often determine whether you will have access to clean air and water, be able to eat healthy food or live in a clean environment. Far too many of our members talk of their families who live, work and play in communities that are polluted by large corporations who are often held unaccountable. We believe that all Californians – regardless of race, color, national origin or income – deserve the right to clean air and water, healthy food and clean neighborhoods. Read more…
Disability Justice
Our vision for justice includes communities that recognize the wholeness of all people. Read more…
LGBTQIA2S+ Justice
True justice and equity cannot be realized until our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) siblings have the freedom to live safely and fully within our communities. As long-term care workers, we know that “care” must include someone’s whole-being. To fully care for our recipients and community members, we must see and respect them for who they authentically are—including who they are and who they love as expressed through their gender identity, gender expression and sexuality. Read more…
