Pritzker agrees to back pay and raises for 42,000 SEIU members
Springfield, IL – Some 42,000 home care and child care providers in Illinois will get raises and receive long-withheld pay under an agreement reached recently between SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Governor J.B. Pritzker.
About 28,000 personal assistants in the Department of Human Services’ Home Services Program have been denied a 48-cent hourly raise for 20 months because former Governor Bruce Rauner refused to sign off on it.
In addition, 14,000 workers in the Child Care Assistance Program were denied a 4.26 percent wage increase for eight months, also because Rauner refused to pay.
“These caregivers provide valuable services to their communities, supporting independent living for people with disabilities and delivering quality child care so low-income working parents can remain in the workforce,” the union said.
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