Santa Cruz Home Care Workers Win New Contract!

After more than a year of negotiations with Santa Cruz County to maintain the wages of home care workers and fighting back against efforts to cut them, we are excited to announce that SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW) ratified a new contract with Santa Cruz County. ULTCW members voted on November 21st, 2011 and on December 13th the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted on the contract to finalize our agreement.

What we accomplished:

This new contract holds in place $11.50 an hour and enhances contract provisions. We added an anti-discrimination clause and a paycheck protection to help home care workers get paid regularly and on-time.

What we did:

• We sent over 1,000 letters to the Santa Cruz Board Of Supervisors
• We held countless rallies
• We “occupied” Board of Supervisors meetings
• We never stopped fighting!
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