Home care workers, whose services are needed more as Alaska's population ages, have negotiated for better pay and other benefits.
The entrance to the All Ways Caring office in Midtown Anchorage, with signs in the window encouraging job applicants, is seen on Nov. 22.
Nearly 1,000 employees of the state’s two largest home care companies, Consumer Direct and All Ways Caring, agreed to the contracts through their union, the “I helped fight to win this contract because it means my family and I won’t have to choose which bills we can pay. We won’t have to struggle like that anymore. It’s going to make a big difference for us,” Essie Frank, a Fairbanks caregiver and member of the All Ways Caring bargaining team, said in a statement released by SEIU 775. “It also means we’ll get more people who want to do caregiving working as caregivers because we can afford to do it.”, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Employees of Consumer Direct joined SEIU 775 in the summer of 2023 and the All Ways Caring workers joined the union the months later, in winter, Rhys said.Including the Alaska employees, SEIU 775 now represents more than 53,000 long-term care workers in three states: Washington, Montana and Alaska., for example, represents nurses and service workers at Alaska Regional Hospital and nurses and certified nursing assistants at PrestigeCare, operator of a facility in Anchorage.
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