Posts tagged home health aides
1199SEIU begins organizing after consumer directed home care overhaul
March 4, 2026 // This month, 1199SEIU sent letters about the effort to aides in the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, an $11 billion Medicaid program that allows disabled and elderly residents to hire and manage their own home care. The letter informs workers of a September agreement between 1199SEIU and the administrator, Georgia-based Public Partnerships, creating a process through which they can vote to join a union. The effort could add more than 250,000 members to the powerful union’s rolls, growing its already large base by as much as 55% and amplifying its influence in the city and state. The notice comes after Hochul’s controversial overhaul of the program, which centralized its administration and opened the door for organizing a new sector of labor.
Home Care Unionization Efforts Beginning To Tick Back Up
March 29, 2024 // Another issue that URMHC workers cited was working hours, which could – in theory – be fixed by providers. One of the biggest reasons for turnover in home-based care is volatile scheduling. “I think that’s a problem we’re going to have to solve,” FirstLight Home Care CEO Glee McAnanly told Home Health Care News earlier this year. “Because if you talk to caregivers, they say they want 30 hours. The average client is 20 hours, and so you’ve got a disconnected 10 hours. So, we talk about retention, but how are we going to [satisfy] that caregiver?”