California United Homecare Workers

CUHW is a statewide labor organization representing over 20,000 home care workers within California’s IHSS program in 25 counties.

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The poverty-level wages earned by the home care workforce in the U.S. degrades care quality for millions of elders and people with disabilities, according to a new Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) report.

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Meet The Workers Caring For Our Elderly While Living In Poverty

Home care workers barely make minimum wage and live in poverty while providing essential services.

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It's time to look at how we value home care work

There are two million home care workers in the United States. They change diapers, administer medications, bathe and dress people and transfer the immobile from one place to another. They also take care…

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IHSS Workers Hold Vigil For Overtime

California Governor Jerry Brown is taking some heat from In Home Supportive Services workers after his administration blocked their overtime pay.

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Thank you to the Sunday New York Times for this great editorial about the recent unjust court decision overturning overtime for home care workers!!

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Everyone should be able live in their own homes with dignity and independence. And we shouldn’t be paid low wages and denied decent benefits to do this important work. Home care workers across the country are united in the Fight for $15 - a call for higher wages and better jobs. We are not alone!

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Home care workers across the nation are joining the fight for a $15 minimum wage!

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Happy Labor Day from all the home care workers at CUHW!

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Congratulations to our sisters and brothers in Minnesota!

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Today is Women’s Equality Day, 94 years after women first received the right to vote. Don’t take it for granted: VOTE!

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Very cute way to make a very important point: we are stronger together!

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Just 94 years ago today, women won the right to vote in the USA.  Remember to use your hard-earned right in this upcoming election!

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Summer 2014 Newsletter

The Summer 2014 CUHW News Update is hitting mailboxes!  This issue highlights  negotiating and legislative victories, reports on our recent successful outreach efforts and explains the new overtime provisions we achieved in the most recent State budget.  Check it out! CUHW News Update -- English Ultimas Noticias de CUHW -- Espanol

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Why Collective Bargaining Is a Fundamental Human Right

The ability for ordinary working people to organize and collectively bargain over their wages and working conditions is a fundamental human right. It is a right just as critical to a democratic society as the right to free speech and the right to vote. Over the last 30 years many in corporate America and the big Wall Street banks have conducted a sustained attack on that human right. Unionization dropped from 20.1 percent of the workforce in 1983 to 11. 3 percent in 2013 -- and the results are there for everyone to see. The simple fact is that absent government regulation and collective bargaining agreements, the market by itself does not assure that everyone shares in the fruits of society's increased economic productivity. In fact, we know that just the opposite is true.