On Saturday, October 1st, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW) lost its founding matriarch, Mrs. Verdia Daniels, a trailblazer in unionizing homecare workers. Her efforts led to the organizing of 80,000 homecare providers in Los Angeles in 1999, the largest union organizing victory in the United States since the heyday of auto worker organizing in the 1930's and the first of homecare providers. Today, 500,000 homecare providers have union representation.