We are the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union of about 2 million diverse members in healthcare, the public sector and property services who believe in and fight for our Vision for a Just Society: where all workers are valued and all people respected—no matter where we come from or what color we are; where all families and communities can thrive; and where we leave a better and more equitable world for generations to come.
SEIU members and workers in the Fight for $15 and a Union want 2020 presidential candidates to #WalkADay in our shoes so they know what it’s like to be a working person in America. Our next president must ensure #UnionsForAll working people and create an economy that works for all of us—Black, white and brown.
SEIU members are working together to demand economic and racial justice and hold politicians accountable to working people. Visit SEIU 2020 to learn about our Unions for All agenda, compare candidates, watch videos, make your voice heard, and find resources for activism in the presidential election.
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In the News
- How I Get By: A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier Vice News
- McDonald's workers sue fast food chain claiming they face 'daily risk of violence at work' USA Today
- Detroit security guards walk off job, citing unfair labor practices ABC News Detroit
- Chicago Schools Strike is for Aides Living Off Less Than $36,000 a Year, Union Members Say USA Today
- SEIU Members Outshine Journalists in Questioning Candidates The American Prospect
- 3 More Democratic Hopefuls Speak To 'Unions For All' Summit Downtown CBS News Los Angeles
- Biden, Warren, other Democratic candidates visit LA to woo union members ABC News Los Angeles
- Eight presidential candidates stump at SEIU summit NBC News National News
- Mayor Pete Buttigieg: Country needs more union members, higher minimum wage ABC News Los Angeles
Our Stories
Renaldo Sanders
Family Child Care Provider
Compton, CA
For the past 16 years, Renaldo Sanders has been part of a campaign to win the freedom for child care providers to unionize. In September 2019, that work paid off!
Yiran Zhang
Graduate Worker
Chicago
I’m a Graduate Worker fighting for #UnionsForAll. For me, this is about who has the opportunity to get an advanced degree in this country. This is about who has basic rights as an employee.
Tammie Wondong
30-year employee with Fairfax County Adult & Aging Services
Fairfax County, Virginia
“When we educate and mobilize our communities, we win. An educated community, an active community, is a community that’s going to thrive!” — Tammie Wondong
Roxette Villegas
Registered Nurse
Los Angeles
Roxette Villegas shares how union nurses are uniquely qualified to take action and address the immigration crisis.
Evelyn Davis-West
Special Education Classroom Assistant
Chicago
Despite a bachelor’s degree and many years of experience, Special Education Classroom Assistant Evelyn Davis-West isn’t respected, in any respect.
Our Movement
Since 2012 when 200 fast-food workers first went on strike, the Fight for $15 and a Union has become an international, multi-racial, worker-led movement demanding $15 an hour and union rights at McDonald’s and across the economy. Today, over 30% of all U.S. workers are on a path to $15 an hour.
Airport workers are proving that when we speak out for $15 and a union, we can change our lives. By coming together across race, language and religion, 152,000 airport workers have won raises and job improvements and 30,000 have joined SEIU. We won't stop until we win Unions for All. #PovertyDoesntFly
Everyone—Black, white and brown—should be able to learn without being trapped in debt and choosing to teach shouldn’t mean living in poverty. College faculty, graduate workers and students are uniting to demand college for all, student debt forgiveness and unions for all. Join our movement.
Child care providers—Black, white and brown—have come together in a national movement to fight for their right to join a union so they can negotiate higher wages, improve working conditions and have a REAL voice to ensure MORE children have access to quality care. Get involved to show your support.
We are on a journey to build a society where everyone’s work is valued and all people are respected. Together, we will fight anti-Black racism, structural racism and all forms of racial oppression that prevent working people from earning a good living and having a good life.
We’re home care workers fighting for higher wages, training to provide better care and affordable long-term care for all. We’re creating good union jobs so more seniors and people with disabilities get the care they need to live with dignity at home. Together, we’re changing the future of home care.
This dynamic campaign empowers 160,000 union janitors to win respect, at least $15 an hour and a strong union for all cleaners—no matter what we look like or where we’re from. So far, we have pumped more than $1 Billion back into the homes and communities of cleaners. And we aren’t done yet.
Our national campaign unites a community of security officers and supporters dedicated to bringing good jobs and higher standards to the entire security industry. We are 65,000 union security officers strong and growing, with a commitment to winning respect, at least $15 an hour and Unions for All.
iAmerica is a source of empowerment for American immigrant families of all walks of life, providing the tools and support to be informed, inspire change and impact America’s future.
All working people should have the opportunity to join a union, no matter where we work, to bargain higher wages and better jobs. Join the Fight for $15 and a Union movement's demand for #UnionsForAll.