SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW) and Members of Community to Hold Vigil on Poten

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Contact: ERik Larsen, 831-206-4914

SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW) and Members of Community to Hold Vigil on Potential Wage Cuts to Santa Cruz County Home Care Providers

Group Also Opposed to Unnecessary Deportation Caused by “Secure Communities” Program

Los Angeles, CA - SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW) is hosting a community vigil to protest potential wage cuts to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) home care providers by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors is considering reducing the wages for home care workers who participate in the IHSS program from $11.50 to $10.35.

The protest will also call on California to stop supporting the federal “Secure Communities” Program. The program, meant to provide fingerprints to the Federal Government to help fight crimes, doesn’t work as it was intended. Instead of fighting crime, its identification tactics have resulted in too many illegal immigrants being deported.

Please join SEIU ULTCW and others members of the community for a vigil to protest potential wage cuts and the “Secure Communities” Program:

Date: Friday, June 17, 2011

4pm

What: SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW)
Community Vigil to Protest Home Care Wage Cuts

Where: Corner of Main and Beach Streets

Watsonville, CA

SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW) is California’s leading long term care organization dedicated to providing and protecting quality care for some of our most vulnerable residents. SEIU ULTCW represents 180,000 in-home care providers and nursing home workers throughout California, making it the largest union of long term caregivers in California and the second largest SEIU Local in the nation.

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