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We’ve been talking a lot about Vice President Kamala Harris lately and how she’s really gets us as care workers—and understands how we help drive the nation’s care economy. 

And then she goes and drops this on us —announcing a transformative plan to expand Medicare to cover home care for the first time ever! 

You don’t have to be a home care worker to know how groundbreaking this is. So many families suffer because they can’t afford home care services for loved ones—and far too many vulnerable folks are forced to give up their independence.  

Now, we know that Kamala gets how important child care is. We know she understands that care workers keep our communities and our economy going. We talk all the time about how she—and her running mate Tim Walz—have made it crystal clear that they believe in strong staffing standards and in the rights of workers to organize for the kind of wages and benefits we need to stabilize the workforce. 

And now with four weeks to go until the election, she’s doubling down on the kind of unprecedented investment we need to go from holding steady on care—to start EXPANDING care to where it needs to be in this country so we can all get services we need. 
 
Now we know Trump and Vance want to go the OTHER way on care. And we know they certainly don’t care about us as care workers. 

Tim Walz cares enough to take time from his busy campaign schedule to do a special online event just for us SEIU members TONIGHT. I plan to join—and hope you can, too. https://seiu-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aMt3fIgPSSucGmsUeCftvA#/registration 

But given that Kamala and Tim have made it clear that care and care workers and people needing care is a top priority for them—we need to make it our top priority to get them elected. 

So please, click here now (https://www.mobilize.us/seiuilstatecouncil/event/653153/)to help get the vote out for them—so we can continue to work together with them when they’re in the White House to stand up for care and care workers. 

In Solidarity, 

Greg Kelley