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Homecare Worker Organizing in California: An Analysis of a Successful Strategy

Linda Delp

Katie Quan

This paper examines the challenges facing California homecare workers in their historic struggle to unionize from the 1980s through the 90s. Three inter-related components were critical to their ultimate success: 1) grassroots organizing, 2) changing policy at the state and county level and 3) working in coalition with groups of senior and disabled care recipients. Now that the union repre sents more than 100,000 workers, consolidation of those victories involves challenges such as developing leadership among the new membership and strengthening the labor-consumer coalition that will be critical to further improvements in homecare services and working conditions. This campaign has already had significant impact on the structure of this emerging workforce, and will have long-term effects on social policy for care of the elderly and dis abled.

Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1-23 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X0202700102
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