Union Jurisdiction

UDW Calfornia Jurisdiction

UDW now has 13 bargaining units in 11 counties with ADDUS HealthCare or the county IHSS public authorities.  Those counties are Butte, El Dorado, Kern, Merced, Orange, Placer, Riverside, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Stanislaus.  We are nearly 50,000 home care workers strong!

We are proud to announce that all UDW bargaining units are covered by a collective bargaining agreement.  At a minimum, these agreements guarantee increased wages, health insurance, labor-management rights, and a grievance procedure.

See UDW in Your County for a complete jurisdiction map as well as links to news and local information for each UDW county.

California Home Care Workers Union

Shortly after the UDW administratorship was set up, another union, SEIU, began "raiding" the counties where there are UDW contracts, trying to take over our members.  Both AFSCME and NUHHCE sent hundreds of organizers in to these counties.  The organizers met with local union members and explained this was a conflict between two unions and UDW didn't want to continue to waste members' hard earned money organizing the same workers all over again.

In winter 2005, UDW/AFSCME/NUHHCE agreed with SEIU to form a new union, the California Home Care Workers Union (CUHW).  In all counties covered by UDW and SEIU where there are no union contracts, workers would become part of this new organization (see jurisdiction map).  Homecare workers in those counties who already belong  to UDW would remain members of UDW.