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Caregiver Stories – RI Future http://www.rifuture.org Progressive News, Opinion, and Analysis Sat, 29 Oct 2016 16:03:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Caregiver makes $220 a week, her mortgage is $900 http://www.rifuture.org/caregiver-makes-220-a-week-her-mortgage-is-900/ http://www.rifuture.org/caregiver-makes-220-a-week-her-mortgage-is-900/#comments Mon, 23 May 2016 12:12:49 +0000 http://www.rifuture.org/?p=63542 Continue reading "Caregiver makes $220 a week, her mortgage is $900"

]]> Shirley Lomba is a caregiver at Bannister House, a nursing home in Providence. She’s paid $10.90 an hour and takes home about $220 a week. Her mortgage alone, $900 a month, costs more than that.

“Who am I paying this week?” Lomba said, explaining her economic plight in a new video produced by SEIU 1199, her labor union that is advocating she be paid a living wage. “Am I going to choose to buy food or I am going to choose to pay my gas or my electric.

Rhode Island, by 75 percent, favors a $15 minimum wage for nursing care workers, according to a recent Fleming & Associates poll. Rep. Scott Salter and Sen. Gayle Goldin, both Providence legislators, have sponsored similar bills that would direct more state funding to pay caregivers like Lomba.  “The legislation is similar to policies enacted by Rhode Island lawmakers in 2000 in order to address a staffing shortage in nursing homes,” according to a news release from SEIU 1199.

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This is the third video SEIU 1199 has released of employees telling their own stories. Previously profiled were:

Vicky Mitchell

And Aggie Clark

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