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Home-care workers press Solano supervisors for higher IHSS wages and contract action
Summary
A large group of in‑home supportive services workers, union leaders and county employees urged the Solano County Board of Supervisors to prioritize higher IHSS wages, a stronger cost-of-living adjustment and concrete bargaining direction to address recruitment and retention problems.
Home-care providers and county employees told the Solano County Board of Supervisors on March 3 that current wages and benefits for in‑home supportive services (IHSS) workers are undermining care and driving workers out of the county.
At public comment, Natasha North, a children’s librarian, described colleagues leaving county jobs for higher pay and urged the board to adopt a stronger cost-of-living adjustment so staff can afford housing and basic needs. Multiple speakers tied low wages to staffing shortages: Jennifer LaRiviere, a SEIU member and Vallejo resident, said a mobile crisis call she placed did not send a clinician and noted that…
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