Our Leadership
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Mary Kay HenryMary Kay Henry has devoted her life to helping America's healthcare workers form unions, improve their jobs and the quality of care, and advocate for a more rational and humane health care system. |
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Eliseo MedinaDescribed by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most successful labor organizers in the country," Eliseo Medina is spearheading SEIU's efforts to help thousands of workers in the South and Southwest unite their strength. Read more about how Medina is leading the charge for comprehensive immigration reform to benefit all workers in America. |
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Mitch AckermanFor the past 20 years, Mitch Ackerman has worked to improve the lives of low-wage, private sector workers in the service industries represented by SEIU, beginning with organizing workers in the historic Justice for Janitors campaign. |
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Kirk AdamsKirk Adams leads the work of SEIU Healthcare, which represents more than one million nurses, doctors and healthcare workers across North America. A long-time organizer and political activist, Adams began organizing workers with the United Labor Unions in 1980.
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Gerry HudsonHonored by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations for his extraordinary leadership, Gerald "Gerry" Hudson has had a wide-ranging impact on the fight to improve the lives of working families and their communities. |
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Eileen KirlinEileen Kirlin is a committed union activist with more than 30 years of leadership experience in the labor movement. Since 1994, Kirlin has led SEIU's work to unite public employees into the union to raise standards on the job and improve the quality of services in their communities.
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Valarie LongA 28 year veteran of the labor movement, Long has a long-standing commitment to lifting the lives of low-wage service workers, especially in communities of color. As president of SEIU Local 82 (which later merged with SEIU 32BJ), Long led - and won - a 10-year fight to bring better wages and respect on the job for thousands of property service workers in Washington, D.C. as part of SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign. Following her tenure at Local 82, Long served as Vice President of Local SEIU 32BJ, the largest property services union in the country. |
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Dave ReganElected by his peers to serve as a top ranking official of the union at the 2008 National Convention, Dave Regan is a committed political and healthcare reform activist with nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the labor movement. |
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Tom WoodruffTom Woodruff has overseen organizing for the nation's fastest-growing union in the Americas since 1996 and has served as a top-ranking officer since 2000. His efforts over the past decade alone have helped more than 1 million workers unite their strength in SEIU. |
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Andy Stern, President EmeritusDubbing him "a different kind of labor chief," The New York Times Magazine described Andy Stern as a man who "intends to create a new, more dynamic" labor movement. Stern's mission? Reform the nation's failed healthcare system, restore accountability for big banks and our elected officials to women and men who go to work everyday and give workers a voice on the job and the chance to build a better life for their families. Read more about how Stern is helping to shake up the labor movement. |
