With 2.1 million members in Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico, SEIU is the fastest-growing union in the Americas. We're uniting workers in healthcare, public services and property services.
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- Founded:
- 1921
Events
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- Labor Day Healthy Works Fair
Downtown Independent Theater
Monday, September 7 at 10:00am - Conference Call with President...
Telephone
Thursday, August 20 at 2:30pm - Take Back Labor Day
Harriet Island
Monday, September 1 at 11:00am - July 17, 2008 - Taking On Ineq...
100 cities in 25 nations - IN THE W...
Thursday, July 17 at 12:00am
Notes
Illinois food service worker Cathy Gaul knows how quickly workers can go from having insurance to joining the ranks of 47 million Americans who live without it...
Fox News' Glenn Beck was a no-brainer for Media Matters' 2009 Misinformer of the Year...
Today in an interview on The Real News Network, journalist Phil Dine had a message for unorganized workers, on why all working Americans should be in a labor union...
This holiday season, many of you will discuss health care with loved ones. That's because health care is a family issue. Families struggle together, we care for one another when we're sick, and we face down financial hardship as one...
At both bargaining tables and kitchen tables across the nation, SEIU members have faced increasingly tough decisions about their health care--often sacrificing wage increases for benefits, or going without health insurance entirely...
A review of the corporate layoffs of 2009 shows many were carried out at highly profitable businesses...
The Senate just passed their health care bill on a 60-39 party line vote. With just one exception, Republican members of Congress uniformly voted "no" on every single procedural and general vote on health insurance reform since July...
TechPresident has a breakdown of the varying opinions on the left of the Senate healthcare bill on their blog today...
Healthcare union powerhouse 1199SEIU is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. Founded as a drugstore union in 1932, the Local union had just 5,000 members when it launched its crusade to organize the then-forgotten hospital workers half a century ago...
Moments ago, sixty U.S. Senators voted to move forward with health insurance reform - clearing the first of three procedural hurdles before a final vote can take place on the Senate health care bill.
In his acclaimed novella "A Christmas Carol," English author Charles Dickens wrote that Ebenezer Scrooge was "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!" Over the past couple of weeks, thousands of people voted in agreement that this Scr...ooge description fits the U.S...
After the vote passing the major hurdle to bring the American people one step closer to making health insurance reform a reality, SEIU President Andy Stern had much to say on behalf of our 2.2 million members--including calling out GOP for "rooting for America to fail." Read the statement here.
On Saturday morning, Sen. Ben Nelson announced at a press conference that he plans to vote for cloture on the current Senate health care bill. His announcement secured Sen. Harry Reid's long sought after 60th vote to end a Republican filibuster against health insurance reform.
School cafeteria workers in some of Sodexo's districts are being disciplined for staying home while they're sick, even though they prepare & serve food to children for a living...
After more than 9 months of fighting, 800 janitors who keep Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase offices' clean in Delaware have won wage increases, health insurance, paid vacation and other benefits...
