Nevada’s home health workers require $ 20 minimum wage: NPR

Nev in Carson City.

The second such requirement in two years. In 2023, a campaign presented a minimum wage for household car consecutives working by private institutions financed by Medicaid. Earlier, their salaries have been stuck between 10 and $ 12 o’clock for more than a decade.

“It was simply ridiculous,” said Regina Brown-Ross, a home care worker and union organizer with Seiu Local 1107. “People can’t work $ 12 per hour.”

By obtaining in 2025, he struggles for many employees, even for $ 16 per hour. Home conditions, mostly women and colored people, often do not have medical insurance. Like other low salary workers, they should fight with rising food and housing costs.

Thus, they now want $ 20 in an hour, and the MPs hope that the state will approve the demand as part of the next budget bill.

Two years ago, the minimum minimum wage for caregivers was managed by the Democrats that still managed both rooms of the legislature of the Nevada, but as a result of the Republican Governor Joe Lombardo.

Today, the workers also want to confirm the coverage of more hours for the state customers, many of them are only part-time care.

“Many of customers – they do not have enough hours and need more help,” said Brown-Ross.

This will also bring a benefit to caregivers

The higher wage turnover decreased

They focus on a higher wage, the country’s comprehensive struggle is struggling as demand for their services.

Nevada, who is already entering into force in January 2024, has an argument to reduce the turnover of the previous salary bump. Before the salary increased to $ 16, half of the house did not last a year in the role of home care workers. Four months after the new minimum entry into force, the turnover in Nevada Health and Human Services, almost nothing fell.

Since then, medical agencies and Seiu have increased in 1107 local. Since 2023, more than 1,300 home care workers consistently united in 12 elections, voted to add muscle to the final struggle.

Irma Nunez helps its customers to other duties with eating seven days a week, bathe, cleanliness and other tasks.

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In 2023, a caregiver in Lobbying Efforts, when a caregiver, then, when bathing and nourish and nourish patients and nourish and nurture and nourish and nourish and nourish and nourish and nourish and nourish and nurture and walk to the bathroom, they have a recipe audience. A chord hit a good need for help.

“People, fathers, moms, grandparents and grandparents, said personal stories about family members,” he says. “They knew what we were talking about.”

Nunej, Nunez, Nunez, worked a few hours here, working as much as work as much as worked as long as he worked for several hours and works as much as a week work as much as he works as much as a week worked as much as he works as much as a week work as much as he works as much as a week.

The blow in January 2024, permitted $ 16 per hour, to reduce the workload and better care for their health. But $ 20 in the hour would provide a better security network to him, and let him start to save a little to retire.

Irma Nunez stands in the house of the client Thomas Draja. He took as much work as he could to end.

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Customers support higher wages

Push for a higher caregiver, some elderly and disabilities with disabilities, Nunez was applauded by the disabled people who trusted as a long time Customer Tomas Draa.

High school science teacher, Draa, was in a car accident 20 years ago, it could not use his feet. Since then, he has longed to go out of bed, washing, dressing, and a minibus to help you go to school.

This help has not always been valid. “We have come to people, or I did not raise me up and I would not go to school that day.”

Then came nunez. In the last 12 years, it is home every day, it reaches 4:30, so Draa can do 6 o’clock from the arrival of the students at 6:00 am in the morning.

The afternoon returns to her home and return to return to bed. “I can’t go to school or if not for Irma,” said Draa.

“It’s always thinking it’s just crazy,” he says, about wages of caregivers. “They make such a little money for a significant job.”

Irma Nunez gives the customer a drink in the bed of Thomas Draja. He has been taking care of him for 12 years.

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Deserves dignity in their occupation

Brown-Ross, a singer as a singer, began working as a singer as a singer, like a singer, like a singer, like a singer, like Ray Charles and Smokey Robinson.

When he walked in China in early 2010, he was damaged.

“I couldn’t read my statements. I couldn’t celebrate. It was the most destructive time for me,” he said.

It was necessary to find a job and soon came the call: the mother-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimer.

We are committed to keeping him at home, brown-ross began to take care of it, as a result, it is a certificate as a servant and formalizes the regulation with a state program that allows family members to pay for their work. Hired by an agency and paid the departure rate then 12 dollars.

“Ray Charles and Gladys work with knights, earn money, to be a home care worker … it was difficult for me,” said Brown-Ross.

This was not just a favorable salary. Was the lack of respect and recognition of the work of caregivers.

“They deserve dignity in their occupations,” he says.

The brown-ross’s brother-in-law died in 2018. Since then, he is therefore that he is, it is therefore that he is, including, including World War II, a young and disabled woman.

Regina Brown-Ross, on January 24, 2025, reads inside the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. As a caregiver, his attention is to help protect their customers to maintain merit, independence and quality of life, which includes musical therapy.

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Recently, he began to restore his voice and sangs songs – find parallels between the two careers.

“I loved to bring joy to my Istnem and make them a journey, it helps them feel better,” he says. “I bring the same scene to take care of my house. I help you do what they can’t do for themselves.”