SEIU Praises Passage of Hate Crimes Bill, Calls for Workplace Anti-Discrimination Law

Oct 29, 2009 - Today, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Executive Vice President Mary Kay Henry praised President Obama for his signing into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and called for greater protections for LGBT workers. Read more...

SEIU Executive Vice President Mary Kay Henry Comments as Prepared for Delivery at Rally in Support of Judge Sotomayor

Aug 05, 2009 - Today, SEIU Vice President Mary Kay Henry joined Senators Cardin, Schumer, Whitehouse and Menendez and other community leaders to voice support for Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the next associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Her comments, as prepared for delivery, are below: Read more...

SEIU Adopts Groundbreaking Political Accountability Campaign

Jun 03, 2008 - On day two of their convention, SEIU members promised to dramatically change the way the union serves its members, uses its political voice and builds partnerships with workers around the globe who share common employers. Read more...

DURBIN, SNOWE, LINCOLN & COLEMAN ALONG WITH NFIB, NAR & SEIU Introduce Affordable Health INSURANCE Plan for Small Businesses

Apr 02, 2008 - Today, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators, including Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) introduced breakthrough legislation designed to make insurance more available and affordable for the 47.1 million employees of the nation's 5.8 million small businesses and for 14.1 million self-employed individuals. Read more...

Kennedy Joins Children, SEIU Healthcare Workers to Deliver Message to Bush: One Million Americans Support Healthcare For 10 Million Kids

Oct 01, 2007 - Hundreds of SEIU healthcare workers, healthcare allies, and children marched to the White House today to deliver mail bags overflowing with petitions from one million Americans in support of health care for kids. Read more...

Media Advisory: Children, SEIU Healthcare Workers To Protest Expected Healthcare Veto

Sep 28, 2007 - As part of a demonstration in support of healthcare for kids, dozens of children will pull red wagons overflowing with petitions from all over the country, delivering them to the White House gates this Monday, October 1, 2007. Read more...

Statement of SEIU Executive Vice President Mary Kay Henry on the Introduction of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)

Apr 25, 2007 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Executive Vice President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, introduced in the House on April 24, 2007 by Reps. Barney Frank, Deborah Pryce, Tammy Baldwin, and Chris Shays: Read more...