Springfield, Ill (WICS) — SEIU Healthcare Illinois child care and home care members will continue a series of statewide actions in Springfield.

Monday, health care workers will speak out for living wages and a pathway to retirement for child and home care workers across Illinois.

Workers rallied in Rockford to showcase the more than 45,000 child care and home care workers who are providing care through state-run programs and are currently bargaining with the Pritzker Administration to address the mounting care worker crisis.

At Monday’s event, childcare and home care workers and consumers will gather to tell their stories, raise demands, and fight to “make care jobs, good jobs.”

The assembled workers will focus attention on the families in Springfield who are struggling to access the essential child and home care services needed due to Illinois’ care workforce crisis.

In actions across the state, care workers, community leaders, elected officials and more are sharing the importance of investing in the home care and child care workforces to stabilize and expand care services so that all working families and people with disabilities have access to the services they need.