Watch Now: Andy Stern Brings Your Voice to Congress
Nov 20, 2008 - Pointing to the combined impact of the health care and economic crises
on the lives of working families nationwide, SEIU President Andy Stern
called on President-Elect Barack Obama and key leaders in Washington
yesterday to work together to address the nation's ailing health care system
in the short-term. Read more...
SEIU In The News: Nov. 20, 2008
Nov 20, 2008 - SEIU In The News: Nov. 20, 2008 Read more...
New Television Ad Highlights Need for Employee Free Choice Act
Nov 20, 2008 - As the nation's current economic crisis continues and wages stagnate, the American public is hungry for measures to strengthen the middle class. A new nationwide television ad campaign serves as a reminder that we need the Employee Free Choice Act to level the playing field for America's workers by giving them a fair and direct path to form unions. Read more...
Former Senator Daschle to be Nominated for HHS Secretary
Nov 20, 2008 - Multiple news sources, including NBC News, are reporting that Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-ND) "has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services," and will therefore be nominated to the position. In that role, Daschle would be in charge of the FDA, Medicare and Medicaid, among other programs. Read more...
Wal-Mart Watch Joins Efforts to Give Workers a Voice on the Job
Nov 19, 2008 - Wal-Mart Watch announced today that it is joining efforts to pass the Employee Free Choice Act so that Wal-Mart's employees and other workers around the country will have the choice to form a union to advocate for better wages and benefits. To martial all available resources toward this effort, Wal-Mart Watch is merging its operations into SEIU to share knowledge and expertise and best serve the efforts to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. Read more...
SEIU In The News: Nov. 19, 2008
Nov 19, 2008 - SEIU In The News: Nov. 19, 2008 Read more...
Join the Conversation: Live Video Conference with SEIU President Andy Stern
Nov 19, 2008 - SEIU President Andy Stern is talking with bloggers, members, and health care activists in a live video conference today at 2:30 p.m today. He'll be reporting back on the congressional testimony he gave this morning on the combined impact of the health care and economic crises on the lives of working families nationwide. Click here to join the conversation. Read more...
Home Depot Founder to CEOs: You "Should Be Shot"
Nov 19, 2008 - In the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill in Congress that would give workers the free choice to form unions, we've seen some crazy hyperbole from greedy CEOs and their front groups who oppose free choice for workers. Home Depot founder and ex-CEO Bernie Marcus, for example... Read more...
Andy Stern Testifying Today on Economics Of Health Care Reform
Nov 19, 2008 - SEIU President Andy Stern will be testifying at a congressional hearing on health care and the economy. He¹ll be using the comments submitted by members and activists to tell show Congress how deeply this is affecting people all across the country. Read more...
SEIU Funding & Leadership Out-Ranks Dozens of Groups During Presidential, Senate Races
Nov 18, 2008 - SEIU Financial Support & Leadership Out-Ranks Dozens of Groups During Presidential and Senate Races Read more...
SEIU In The News: Nov. 18, 2008
Nov 18, 2008 - SEIU In The News: Nov. 18, 2008 Read more...
TONIGHT: Watch Andy Stern's Interview on NBC Nightly News
Nov 18, 2008 - SEIU President Andy Stern will be featured in tonight's NBC Nightly News broadcast to talk about critical issues the Obama Administration must address for all working families. Tune in to NBC Nightly News tonight, November 17, beginning at 6:30 pm EST to watch. Read more...
Help SEIU President Andy Stern Bring Your Story to Capitol Hill at Senate Hearing on Health Care Reform Tomorrow
Nov 18, 2008 - Yesterday afternoon, SEIU International President Andy Stern sent out an email to healthcare activists asking for input on the testimony he will be offering on the combined impact of the health care and economic crisis on working families at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance at 10:00 a.m. tomrorow, November 19. Read more...
"Now is the time to roll up our sleeves..." Letter to the Editor from SEIU Healthcare Member
Nov 18, 2008 - "No matter if you voted for President-elect Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, if you are a union member, small-business owner or retiree, we share one community. We need to play our part to help our elected leaders fulfill their campaign promises," writes SEIU Healthcare member Charlotte Anibas from Local 1199NW in a Seattle Times LTE. Read more...
Leading Massachusetts Physicians Voice Support for Free and Fair Union
Nov 17, 2008 - Free & Fair Elections = Quality Jobs, Quality Care Hospital workers across Boston are calling for free and fair union elections so they can have a voice in protecting patient care and improving jobs for working families. In an open... Read more...
SEIU In The News: Nov. 15 - Nov. 17, 2008
Nov 17, 2008 - SEIU In The News: Nov. 15 - Nov. 17, 2008 Read more...
SEIU Healthcare Chair Dennis Rivera Addresses Links between Nation's Failing Economy, Ailing Healthcare System
Nov 16, 2008 - "We have a president who has promised to prioritize health care and improve the lives of workers. We have a Congress that has committed to providing economic relief for families--including affordable health insurance," wrote Dennis Rivera, SEIU Healthcare chair in The Hill's Congress Blog. Read more...
A Blueprint And A Call To Action For The Nation's Ailing Healthcare System
Nov 15, 2008 - "One week since the historic election that brought a sea change of hope and energy to our country, we're already getting a clear picture of what to expect from new leadership in Washington in 2009," writes SEIU Healthcare Chairman Dennis Rivera today on The Hill's Congress blog. Read more...
Anna Burger on Meet the Bloggers
Nov 14, 2008 - Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger was on Meet the Bloggers today, talking
about the Employee Free Choice Act. Watch it now: Read more...
Why Employees Need Free Choice to Join Unions: Let's Cut to the Chase
Nov 14, 2008 - The Saturday, Nov. 8th edition of The New York Times had a lengthy piece by Steven Greenhouse about the growing chorus for the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would restore free choice for people who want to join a union. Towards the end of the article is a simple sentence that bears further examination, because it gets to the heart of why we need Employee Free Choice... Read more...
SEIU In The News: Nov. 14, 2008
Nov 14, 2008 - SEIU In The News: Nov. 14, 2008 Read more...
Anna Burger to Appear on Meet the Bloggers
Nov 14, 2008 - Today on Meet the Bloggers watch Anna Burger, SEIU secretary-treasurer and Change to Win chair, discuss how the Employee Free Choice Act can revitalize our nation's middle class and why it's so important to give workers the right to form unions in the workplace. Read more...
SEIU Canada: Comcare Home Care Workers Vote to Join Union
Nov 13, 2008 - Sudbury area home caregivers employed by Comcare Health Services voted overwhelmingly on November 10 to form a union, becoming members of SEIU Local 1 Canada. Read more...
PSA Campaign Aims to Address the Mental Health Consequences of Combat
Nov 13, 2008 - PSA Campaign Aims to Address the Mental Health Consequences of Combat Read more...
SEIU, Coalition Partners Urge Health Care Overhaul
Nov 13, 2008 - SEIU and its Divided We Fail partners AARP, the Business Roundtable and the National Federation of Independent Businesses published an open letter to President-elect Barack Obama in USA Today this week, calling for comprehensive healthcare reform in the new administration's... Read more...
SEIU In The News: Nov. 13, 2008
Nov 13, 2008 - SEIU In The News: Nov. 13, 2008 Read more...
SEIU Supports New Blueprint to Solve Health Care Crisis by Senator Max Baucus
Nov 12, 2008 - SEIU issued a statement in support of the diagnosis of and prescription for mending our broken health care system released today by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), the chairman of the Finance Committee.
Read more...
Passage of Proposition B for Quality Home Care Ensures Choice to Live at Home for Seniors, Disabled
Nov 12, 2008 - Seniors, people with disabilities, attendants, and home care advocates celebrated the passage of Proposition B, the Quality Home Care Act, as a major victory in the effort to ensure quality home care services for Missouri's growing senior population and its citizens with disabilities. Read more...
Gerry Hudson Shares Ideas with Alternet re: a Progressive Health Care Reform Agenda
Nov 12, 2008 - This weekend, Alternet asked dozens of writers, experts and activists about priorities for President-elect Barack Obama's early days in office. SEIU Executive Vice President Gerry Hudson wrote, "Health care costs are rising at almost double the rate of wage increases for the average American worker. Read more...
"How do you see the outcome of the presidential election changing the health care reform debate?"
Nov 12, 2008 - "This election showed that American workers are struggling with the rising cost of everything -- from food to fuel to housing to health care. They know that skyrocketing health costs are shrinking their paychecks, and if they lose their jobs they lose their health care." Read more...
Workers Recount Their GOTV Efforts for a New Economic Agenda
Nov 11, 2008 - Union members from SEIU and the Change to Win federation gathered at a press conference Friday to tell their stories of hope and optimism to promote a new era for positive government and a progressive agenda for worker-driven economic growth. Read more...
Putting Healthcare on the Map
Nov 07, 2008 - This week, we're celebrating. SEIU members, local and International staff across the country knocked on doors and called voters to help get out the vote and move millions of Americans to the polls to bring home victory for Barack Obama. Read more...
Fast Fact: In Just Five Months...
Nov 04, 2008 - Through last night, SEIU members knocked on 2,435,645 doors in battleground states and key races across the country. Read more...
Fast Fact: Millions Contacted Over the Phone
Nov 04, 2008 - Through last night, SEIU members and staff made 16,137,541 phone calls in battleground states and key races across the country. Read more...
Fast Fact: SEIU Expanded the Electorate
Nov 04, 2008 - During the general election, SEIU's members registered 102,156 new voters in battleground states. Read more...
SEIU Members Launch New Ohio Ad
Oct 30, 2008 - Today, SEIU announced a new television ad, titled "Meghan," that will air on cable and broadcast TV as well as online across Ohio through the end of the election. The ad highlights John McCain's record of voting for tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas through the story of one Buckeye worker. Read more...
Lynn and Barry Goldman, New Hampshire
Oct 22, 2008 - Under Barack Obama's plan, self-employed people and small business owners like the Goldmans would get help getting access to health care in several ways: Read more...
SEIU Launches New Ad
Oct 15, 2008 - SEIU is going up with this latest ad, asking... What's the difference between Bush and McCain? Read more...
SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana: Homecare Workers Set National Standards for Help at Home Workers
Oct 15, 2008 - Nearly 5,000 members of SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana employed by Help At Home (HAH) will vote on a historic new contract that paves the way for thousands more Help At Home workers across the country to join the union. Read more...
Pennsylvania RNs win mandatory overtime ban
Oct 10, 2008 - It's been seven years in the making, but on Wednesday, Pennsylvania state legislation against mandatory overtime for nurses and healthcare workers passed its last hurdle on its way to the Governor's desk. Read more...
Pennsylvania Nurses and Patients One Step Closer
Oct 08, 2008 - It's been seven years in the making, but on Wednesday, state legislation against mandatory overtime for nurses and healthcare workers passed its last hurdle on its way to the Governor's desk. Read more...
Vital Signs: Freda Blakerby, RN
Oct 08, 2008 - I became an LPN in 1983 and an RN in 1993. In 2003, at the age of 55, I became disabled by a genetic disease and lost my job. Read more...
SEIU Nursing Assistant Will Be At Tonight's 2nd Presidential Debate
Oct 07, 2008 - Jean Ann Berg, a nursing assistant and member of SEIU Healthcare Florida, will be in the audience at tonight's 2nd Presidential debate, waiting to ask John McCain why he wants to tax healthcare benefits and make it harder for families to afford coverage. Read more...
New Ad: SEIU Members Make Health Care Deciding Issue For Uncommitted Voters
Oct 06, 2008 - Today, SEIU announced a new, multi-state television and field campaign aimed at targeting undecided voters in the final weeks of the presidential election with information on the difference between the Obama and McCain health care plans. Read more...
So... Now What?
Oct 03, 2008 - Written by SEIU International President Andy Stern Let's face it: the Bailout Bill doesn't get to the heart of what's wrong with our economy. Neither you, nor I, nor many of those who voted for it believe that this bill... Read more...
Confused Sarah Palin Contradicts John McCain on Unions
Oct 02, 2008 - Sarah Palin spoke with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier this week and - surprise, surprise - completely contradicted John McCain's virulent opposition to unions and the Employeee Free Choice Act.Palin credited "good union jobs" for why her family had... Read more...
NEW SEIU TELEVISION AD: Thelma Drake Is "Wrong for Veterans, Wrong For Virginia"
Sep 30, 2008 - A new television ad by SEIU details the multiple votes Congresswoman
Thelma Drake has cast against improving health care for our nation's veterans,
making the case that she is "Wrong for Veterans, Wrong for Virginia." Read more...
Video: Mark Warner Walks a Day
Sep 30, 2008 - Here's video from the Walk a Day in My Shoes 2008 with Former Governor Mark Warner and PCA Shareen Miller: Read more...
Our Economic Recovery Plan
Sep 29, 2008 - Now that the Bush Administration's $700 billion Wall St. bailout appears to be dead, we need to have a full discussion about how to solve our economic problems. Join me in calling for a New Era for Working Families that puts the government on the side of the people. Read more...
$17,000 an Hour for CEO of Biggest Ever Bankruptcy
Sep 25, 2008 - One of the reasons SEIU is organizing and mobilizing support for the Employee Free Choice Act is to restore balance in the workplace. While the imbalance of rights at work is a serious issue of its own, there's an astounding difference in compensation between workers and CEOs. Let's look at CEO pay: while the minimum wage for workers is just $6.55 an hour, the average pay of a CEO is $6,153 an hour. Read more...
Watch Andy Stern on Meet the Bloggers
Sep 25, 2008 - Earlier this month SEIU President Andy Stern appeared on the weekly online talk show Meet the Bloggers to discuss the Employee Free Choice Act. Watch the episode featuring Stern now: Read more...
Be One in a Million for the Employee Free Choice Act
Sep 25, 2008 - A robust middle class. Economic growth and shared prosperity. The American Dream. None are possible unless workers have the free choice to bargain for a better life--in their workplaces and in our nation. Read more...
