The first home care workers in Alaska to join a union specializing in their industry have approved new contracts that set higher starting wages and establish a series of other benefits.
By Yereth Rosen, Alaska BeaconThe entrance to the All Ways Caring office in Midtown Anchorage, with signs in the window encouraging job applicants, is seen on Nov. 22, 2024. Home care workers employed with All Ways Caring and with Consumer Direct have approved their first union contracts. Demand for home care workers has increased as Alaska's population has aged.
“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.”the mean hourly wage was $18.
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