Sacramento, CA – Home care workers were joined today by Assemblymember Matt Haney for a news conference celebrating a critical step forward for their plan to protect the life-saving care that 829,000 seniors and people with disabilities depend on in California: AB 283 (Haney), a bill to authorize In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers statewide to bargain for wages, benefits, and training opportunities with one unified voice, advanced from the Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee this morning with a 7-0 bipartisan vote. 

Caregivers and the IHSS consumers they’re dedicated to caring for recognized that today’s progress comes at a time when Medi-Cal, the foundation of health care and home care for 829,000 IHSS consumers, is at great risk. Extremists in Congress have proposed slashing up to $880 billion in Medicaid funding in order to give a huge tax cut to corporations and wealthy CEOs like Elon Musk. Cuts of this magnitude would reduce healthcare access, put hospitals and clinics at risk of closure, increase healthcare costs for all, and worsen an already crisis-level shortage of home care caregivers. 

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Assemblymember Haney in collaboration with SEIU and UDW is hosting a press conference for AB 283 to support the ability of In Home Supportive Services workers to collectively bargain at the State level.

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