According to Richard Halstead, a reporter at the Marin Independent Journal, a recent Marin city council meeting including “a throng of people calling for a much larger pay hike for workers in the In-Home Supportive Services program.”
Shannon Griffin of San Rafael, also an organizing committee member, said another problem is that the state won’t authorize paying IHSS workers for the number of hours necessary to meet clients’ basic needs.
For example, Griffin said a friend of hers with Parkinson’s disease, who can’t walk or feed herself, is allotted seven hours a week for meal preparation, one hour a week for laundry and 12 minutes a week for transportation to and from medical appointments.
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