UDW Saves San Diego Workers Health Care
October 31, 2006

Nearly 200 home care providers rally at the San Diego Board of Supervisors
to protect their health insurance.  Providers not only won good
insurance, but will pay less in monthly premiums

Doug Moore strategize's with UDW staff to protect healthcare for home care providers at a lower cost.

UDW additionally procured a better healthcare insurance provider with lower cost to workers.

Read the full story on how UDW fought for your healthcare benefits Press Release

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North County Times, San Diego
San Diego Union Tribune

IHSS activists protest the Governor's veto
of bills that would have helped IHSS
Sacramento, October 17, 2006

UDW organizer Charles Lester was honored October 21 with the "Political Organizing Award" presented by the Orange County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO at the Disneyland Hotel.

Examples of Lester's work with UDW include helping members in every County win pay increases and access to health benefits for the first time in union history. He worked closely with members and elected officials in saving the jobs of hundreds of UDW members working for ADDUS healthcare in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

Under Lester, UDW membership meetings in each county were opened up to all members. New offices opened to serve more members.  And he helped UDW in fighting for legislation at the State Capitol to win direct deposit of workers' paychecks at no cost to employees.

UDW wishes Lester well as he assumes new duties as National Organizing Director of the United Transit Union, representing bus drivers across the country.  He has spent his career running major grass-roots organizing and political campaigns involving hundreds of union staff and thousands of labor volunteers.