New SEIU Ad: U.S. Representatives Showed Leadership Against Big Insurance

Nov 20, 2009 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) released new television ads today thanking members in eight Congressional Districts for standing up to big insurance through the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Read more...

SEIU: U.S. Chamber Opposition to H1N1 Paid Sick Leave Legislation 'Unconscionable'

Nov 19, 2009 - Today, SEIU launched a petition calling out the US Chamber of Commerce for its "unconscionable" opposition to paid sick leave in light of this year's H1N1 epidemic. Read more...

SEIU: Introduction of the U.S. Senate's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Puts America One Step Closer to Health Insurance Reform that Works for the American People

Nov 19, 2009 - Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) President Andy Stern released the following statement regarding the U.S. Senate's release of its Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Read more...

SEIU: A Clean House Should Not Put Your Family's Health At Risk

Nov 18, 2009 - Said SEIU's Anna Burger in support of the Household Product Labeling Act of 2009: "If we have the right to know about the potential side effects of our prescription drugs, we have the right to know what's in our chemical cleaning supplies." Read more...

SEIU Statement on President's Interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force

Nov 18, 2009 - Today, SEIU released the following statement of Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on the President's creation of the Interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. Read more...

SEIU Tells Lincoln, Nelson, Landrieu and Lieberman: We're Adopting Your States

Nov 17, 2009 - Vowing to ensure that a handful of key Senators won't prevent an up-or-down vote on critical health insurance reform, SEIU today launched its "Adopt-A-State" campaign. Read more...

Hundreds of Taxpayers Converge on Goldman Sachs DC Headquarters

Nov 16, 2009 - Today, hundreds of workers, clergy members, community leaders, and other taxpayers converged on the Washington, D.C. headquarters of Goldman Sachs to demand the bank put an end to multi-billion dollar bonuses, reject the Too Big To Fail Doctrine, and use their anticipated $23 billion bonus pool to help families facing foreclosure. Read more...

Statement of Anna Burger on Announcement of White House Jobs Forum

Nov 12, 2009 - Today, SEIU released the following statement of Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on President Obama's call for a jobs forum in December. Read more...

SEIU Statement on Dobbs' Resignation: Dobbs No Longer Fanning the Flames of Hate at CNN

Nov 12, 2009 - In response to yesterday's announcement that Lou Dobbs is resigning from his position as anchor on CNN effective immediately, SEIU issued the following statement... Read more...

SEIU Statement on ICE Enforcement in the Twin Cities

Nov 10, 2009 - Washington, DC--SEIU issued the following statement regarding ICE enforcement in the Twin Cities: "Enforcement without comprehensive reform is like redecorating when the house is on fire. Instead of solving problems, it only succeeds in pushing undocumented workers away from responsible... Read more...

SEIU: House of Representatives Stand on Right Side of History

Nov 07, 2009 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed America's Affordable Health Choices Act: Read more...

Responding to the Latest Unemployment Numbers...
SEIU to Wall Street: Start Doing Your Part to Help Economy Recover Faster

Nov 06, 2009 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released the following statement following news that the unemployment rate has reached 10.2 percent... Read more...

Death of Vitter-Bennett Amendment to Wreck the Census is a Victory for Workers, Victory for America

Nov 05, 2009 - After weeks of organizing against the Vitter-Bennett amendment with the Don't Wreck the Census campaign, today the Senate voted for cloture, 60-39, on the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill. Read more...

Statement from SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger Supporting Puerto Rico Workers

Nov 04, 2009 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released the following statement today in support of more than 17,000 workers who are an essential part of Puerto Rico's social safety net in the areas of education, healthcare, and social services. Read more...

One Year After Voting for Change, SEIU Celebrates Victories for Working Families

Nov 04, 2009 - One year after working families voted for change, electing President Barack Obama and progressive candidates up and down the ballot, SEIU released the statement of SEIU President Andy Stern on some of the remarkable progress that has already been achieved for working families. Read more...

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...

House Proves that Yes We Can Have Health Insurance Reform that Works for the American People

Oct 29, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern released the following statement after the introduction of the America's Affordable Health Choices Act in the House of Representative: "Today, the House of Representative's introduction of the America's Affordable Health Choices Act made clear that President Obama's challenge to our nation holds true: 'Yes We Can...' Read more...

SEIU's Anna Burger: Congress Must Investigate the Banks

Oct 27, 2009 - Today, speaking before a crowd of 5,000 people assembled in front of the American Bankers Association convention in Chicago, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger called for a widespread investigation, and if necessary, prosecution of big bank CEOs: Read more...

5,000 Converge On American Bankers Association Convention

Oct 27, 2009 - In the largest mobilization since the economic crisis began, more than 5,000 taxpayers from 20 states marched on the American Bankers Association (ABA) convention in downtown Chicago today. Read more...

More Than 5,000 Taxpayers to Converge on American Bankers Association Convention

Oct 27, 2009 - Today, in the largest taxpayer mobilization since the economic crisis began, more than 5,000 Americans from 20 cities will converge on the American Bankers Association (ABA) convention in Chicago. Read more...

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair Addresses Thousand of Taxpayers at Showdown in Chicago in Support of President Obama's New Consumer Protection Agency

Oct 26, 2009 - FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair addresses thousands of taxpayers, who are in Chicago for the three days "Showdown" against big banks, to express her support for President Obama's Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). Below is a part of her speech at the Hyatt Regency Chicago early this morning. Read more...

Thousands of Taxpayers to Converge on Bankers Convention to Demand Banks Stop Lobbying Against Financial Reform

Oct 23, 2009 - In the largest taxpayer mobilization since the economic crisis began, thousands of Americans from 20 cities will converge on the American Bankers Association (ABA) conference in Chicago from October 25 to 27 to demand banks stop spending millions in taxpayer dollars to lobby against reforms that would protect Americans from the next economic crisis. Read more...

SEIU: CFPA Vote Key First Step But More Must Be Done To Protect Americans From Wall Street Recklessness

Oct 22, 2009 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released the following statement after the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee voted 39 to 29 to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA): "Today, Chairman Frank and the Financial Services Committee stood up on behalf of American families by passing legislation to create a strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency--and to prevent business as usual to continue..." Read more...

SEIU Members Call Out Christie's Record on Women and Families in New TV Ad

Oct 22, 2009 - Today, SEIU launched a new television ad that will call attention to Republican Gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie's record on women and families. The ad, titled "What Do We Know?," will air on local cable across southern New Jersey during the critical closing days of the Gubernatorial campaign. Read more...

One Hundred Thousand Calls to Congress: It's Time to Deliver Health Care Reform That Works

Oct 19, 2009 - More than a thousand events are taking place across the country on Tuesday, October 20th, to make sure Congress knows it's time to deliver health care reform that makes quality care affordable for America's families. Read more...

SEIU's Burger: Continue CEO Pay Crackdown

Oct 16, 2009 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) released a statement from Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger following news that Ken Lewis will not be receiving his 2009 compensation and bonus pay in light of his multimillion-dollar retirement package. Read more...

Hundreds of Thousands of Puerto Rican Workers, Faith Leaders, Students and Citizens to Unite in Hato Rey on October 15

Oct 14, 2009 - As Puerto Rico struggles with a 17 percent unemployment rate, Republican Governor Luis Fortuno is pushing forward with his plan to lay off more than 17,000 state government employees. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for Oct. 25-27: Thousands of Taxpayers to Converge on Bankers Convention to Demand Banks Stop Lobbying Against Financial Reform

Oct 14, 2009 - In the largest taxpayer mobilization since the economic crisis began, thousands of Americans from 20 cities will converge on the American Bankers Association (ABA) conference in Chicago from October 25 to 27 to demand banks stop spending millions in taxpayer dollars to lobby against reforms that would protect Americans from the next economic crisis. Read more...

SEIU Members Join Thousands at U.S. Capitol to Renew Push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Oct 13, 2009 - Today, over 400 SEIU members joined fellow activists and religious leaders for a day of religious ceremonies and visits with lawmakers to urge Congress to advance legislation that will overhaul the U.S.'s broken immigration policies. Read more...

Former Census Directors Warn that Vitter Amendment would Severely Damage 2010 Census, Cost Billions

Oct 13, 2009 - Yesterday, five former U.S. Census Directors, who oversaw the U.S. Census process since 1973, expressed in a statement their grave concerns about a proposed amendment by Senator David Vitter (LA-R) to the Fiscal Year 2010 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill that would add a new question on citizenship and immigration status to the 2010 census. Read more...

What Side of History Will Our Senators Stand?

Oct 13, 2009 - Today, we stand on the brink of making history and giving every American the promise of health insurance reform that no longer leaves families at the mercy of an insurance industry driven by profits and greed Read more...

Members, Staff of Nation's Fastest Growing Union Gear Up for 2010 Elections

Oct 09, 2009 - As the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) gears up for the 2010 Federal, Gubernatorial and state legislative elections, the organization today announced additional staff to help elect politicians accountable to working families. Read more...

San Francisco Residential Service Workers Ratify New Contract with Building Owners

Oct 08, 2009 - On Thursday, October 8, more than 300 residential service workers announced that they have ratified a new three-year union contract with the owners of more than 50 San Francisco residential buildings. The new contract maintains current benefits, decent wages, as well as ensuring wage increases for the residential workers. Read more...

SEIU: No Multimillion-Dollar Compensastion Packages for Ken Lewis, Other Big Bank CEOs

Oct 08, 2009 - Today SEIU sent a letter to Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg requesting action to prevent outgoing Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis and executives at other banks receiving taxpayer funds from receiving multimillion-dollar retirement, severance, or compensation packages. Read more...

SEIU: Ken Lewis Leaves Legacy as Poster Boy for Bank Execs Gone Bad

Oct 01, 2009 - Following the news of Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis' planned retirement, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) continued its efforts to bring change to the banking industry by releasing a detailed record of Lewis' failed leadership. Read more...

Six Months from Census, National Coalition Outlines Campaign to Ensure Full Count of U.S. Latinos

Oct 01, 2009 - U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves joined prominent Latino groups, labor and faith leaders and leading national Spanish-language media partners today to outline a historic campaign to ensure a full and accurate 2010 Census count of the estimated 50 million Latinos living in the United States. Read more...

SEIU: Paul Kirk Jr. Will Stand With Massachusetts' Working Families

Sep 24, 2009 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern released the following statement after Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appointed Paul G. Kirk Jr. to fill Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat until a special election on January 19, 2010. Read more...

Massachusetts Legislature Ensures Bay State Families Will Have Full Voice in U.S. Senate

Sep 23, 2009 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern released the following statement after the Massachusetts State Legislature voted to allow Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint a successor fill Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat until a special election on January 19, 2010. Read more...

Thousands of DREAM Students Shine Light on Broken Immigration System, Hold Over 120 "Back to School" Events Nationwide

Sep 23, 2009 - Today thousands of immigrant students held over 120 events in 28 states to support legislation that would allow talented DREAM students who view this country as their own to attend college, serve their nation, and earn a path to U.S. citizenship. Read more...

Sen. Harry Reid, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Join Healthcare Workers and Providers in Call for Reform: "Every Patient Matters"

Sep 23, 2009 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis joined healthcare workers and healthcare providers today to support making healthcare affordable for every American this year. Read more...

On Eve of G-20 Summit...
SEIU Releases New Report: Wall Street Bilked Taxpayers for $18 Trillion Since Financial Collapse

Sep 23, 2009 - On the eve of the G-20 summit and just one year after the financial world collapsed, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) released a report today detailing the severe impact the economic crisis has had on working families. According to the report, once all crisis-related programs are factored in, taxpayers could be on the hook for up to $17.8 trillion to rescue the big banks. Read more...

Senate Majority Leader Reid Will Speak and New Start Time

Sep 22, 2009 - Throughout the August recess, thousands of nurses, doctors and healthcare workers across America signed medical scrubs in support of healthcare reform. Read more...

SEIU New Report: Wall Street Bilked Taxpayers for $18 Trillion Since Financial Collapse

Sep 21, 2009 - On the eve of the G-20 summit--the first such summit since the financial world collapsed one year ago--the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will release a report detailing the severe impact the crisis has had on working families. Read more...

Working Women and Men Will Not Be Silenced by Right Wing Attack Dogs; We Will Win the Change America Needs

Sep 18, 2009 - Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union, issued the following statement today regarding recent attempts of right wing extremists to silence working families by attacking progressive individuals and community organizations: Read more...

Senate Finance Committee Must Take Up the Challenge to Guarantee Every American Affordable Healthcare

Sep 16, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern released the following statement on the Senate Finance Committee's introduction of the America's Healthy Future Act: ""We are closer than ever before in making health insurance reform a reality..." Read more...

As UNITE HERE prepares to re-affiliate with AFL-CIO....

Workers United Members Call on New Leaders of AFL-CIO to Help End UNITE HERE Dispute

Sep 16, 2009 - As UNITE HERE prepares to re-affiliate with the AFL-CIO, members of Workers United, an SEIU affiliate, called on AFL-CIO incoming President Richard Trumka to help end the ongoing UNITE HERE dispute that is hurting workers from coast to coast. Read more...

Statement of Anna Burger on Lehman Brothers Collapse and President Obama's Speech

Sep 14, 2009 - Today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) released the statement of Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse. Read more...

SEIU Denounces Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech

Sep 14, 2009 - Today the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), America's Voice Educational Fund, Center for New Community, and the Campaign for Community Change launched a print ad denouncing known hate group, FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform) for poisoning the healthcare and immigration debates with bigoted, xenophobic hate speech. Read more...

"Let's Shape the History of American Workers in the 21st Century"

Sep 14, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement today to thank outgoing AFL-CIO president John Sweeney for his years of service to working families and congratulate his successor, Richard Trumka. Read more...

Immigrant and Labor Groups Announce Citizenship Push to Help Applicants Overcome Economic Barriers, Boost Naturalization Rates

Sep 11, 2009 - Today--less than a week before National Citizenship Day on September 17--ya es hora ¡Ciudadania! (Citizenship: It's Time!), national community partners and the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) announced that more than 25 citizenship events are being held across the country this September to help thousands of eligible immigrants apply for U.S. citizenship. Read more...

SEIU: America Can and Must Do Better

Sep 09, 2009 - This is our moment to make healthcare affordable and within reach of every American. Read more...

SEIU: Senator Harkin Continues His Fight for Working Families

Sep 09, 2009 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released the following statement on Iowa Senator Tom Harkin assuming the gavel of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for September 11th: National Immigrant, Civil Rights and Labor Groups to Discuss Continued Increase in U.S. Naturalizations, Despite Economic Hurdles

Sep 08, 2009 - In honor of National Citizenship Day, ya es hora ¡Ciudadania! (Citizenship: It's Time!) partners--the NALEO Educational Fund, NCLR and SEIU will join the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) for a telephonic press briefing on Friday, September 11 to preview more than 25 citizenship workshops planned nationwide this month. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for September 10th: Nearly 300 Progressives Descend on Washington to Lobby for Employee Free Choice Act

Sep 08, 2009 - On Thursday, September 10, a coalition of nearly 300 progressives from 15 states across the country will travel to Washington this week to lobby for major labor law reform. Read more...

Obama, Biden Reaffirm Support for Employee Free Choice Act

Sep 07, 2009 - At Labor Day rallies in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, President Obama and Vice President Biden today reaffirmed their support for the Employee Free Choice Act as a top priority of the Administration. Read more...

Nation's Largest Healthcare Union Supports Institute of Medicine Report & Recommendations to Protect Healthcare Workers Against H1N1 Influenza Virus

Sep 03, 2009 - Today, SEIU--the nation's largest organization of healthcare workers--backed the first and only comprehensive, scientific review that offers guidelines to protect healthcare workers caring for patients with a suspected or confirmed case of H1N1 (Swine Flu). Read more...

SEIU to Congress: Mark Labor Day with Pledge to Bring Affordable Healthcare Labor Reform to Working Families

Sep 02, 2009 - As Congress looks ahead to the first Labor Day without the guiding hand of Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) called on Congress to mark the holiday with a renewed pledge to bring affordable healthcare and meaningful labor law reform to working families Read more...

SEIU: Continue to Honor Kennedy Legacy, Pass Healthcare Reform

Aug 26, 2009 - Today, SEIU released the following statement by SEIU President Andy Stern on the passing of Senator Edward M. Kennedy: "In Senator Kennedy's America, every family has access to affordable healthcare, every worker has a paycheck that supports their family and a secure retirement, every child has a right to a quality education, and every immigrant can achieve the American Dream..." Read more...

Foundation Laid for Needed Immigration Reform

Aug 20, 2009 - Today, joined by other labor, advocacy, faith and business leaders, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina will meet with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to lay the groundwork on immigration reform. Read more...

Top Ten Reasons Why Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis and Top Executives Don't Deserve Bonuses this Year

Aug 13, 2009 - In response to reports that big banks are reinstating guaranteed pay and bonus structures not tied to employee performance for top executives, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has released its "Top Ten Reasons Why Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis and Top Executives Don't Deserve Bonuses this Year." Read more...

SEIU Granite State Activists Come Out In Numbers To Support President Obama and Healthcare Reform

Aug 11, 2009 - More than 450 of SEIU's New Hampshire activists came out to a town hall meeting with President Obama to make sure their voices were heard about the importance of passing health insurance reform that makes healthcare affordable for all Americans. Read more...

Workers United Calls on Laborers to Withdraw Petition on Washington DC Hotel

Aug 10, 2009 - The NLRB has scheduled a representation hearing today at the request of the Baltimore Washington Laborers District Council of the Laborers International Union of North America, which filed a petition with the NLRB on Embassy Suites Hotel. Read more...

SEIU-Missouri Statement on Last Night's Healthcare Town Hall Meeting

Aug 07, 2009 - Last night, in St. Louis, a Reverend and SEIU member was assaulted at a town hall dedicated to discussing our national healthcare crisis. The Reverend, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, and others who attended in hopes of a peaceful dialogue about our nation's healthcare crisis, endured the latest attempt by right-wing fringe groups to hijack the democratic process through violence if necessary. Read more...

SEIU Statement Following Senate Vote Confirming Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court

Aug 06, 2009 - Statement from SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on the U.S. Senate's 68-31 vote today confirming Sonia Sotomayor's nomination as associate justice to the Supreme Court of the United States. Read more...

Radical-Fringe Obstructs Health Reform, Promotes Disruption and Mythology

Aug 06, 2009 - During the past several days, radical-fringe opponents of health care reform have disrupted town hall meetings conducted by members of Congress. At the same time, these radical-fringe groups are disseminating discredited myths about health care reform bills that were adopted by four Congressional committees. Read more...

SEIU: We Can't Afford More of the Chamber's Policies

Aug 06, 2009 - With Friday's new unemployment numbers projected to show a jobless rate in double digits, SEIU President Andy Stern today called on U.S. Chamber President Tom Donohue to explain why his organization supports outsourcing of American jobs. 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...

Wal-Mart Watch Joins WakeUpWalmart.com to Hold America's Largest Private Employer Accountable for Promises Made

Jul 31, 2009 - Today, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced that Wal-Mart Watch has joined with WakeUpWalMart.com to form one organization to maximize the ability for Walmart workers to win a voice on the job and bring change to the entire retail industry. Read more...

SEIU to Congress: Employee Free Choice Act Essential to Reining in Reckless CEOs and Corporate Greed

Jul 31, 2009 - As Congressional gets sets to pass H.R. 3269, the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act of 2009, cracking down on corporate and big bank CEO pay, SEIU called on lawmakers to pass the Employee Free Choice Act as an essential way to rein in reckless CEOs and corporate greed and speed up economic recovery. Read more...

SEIU Security Officers Who Protect Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Nationwide Vote Overwhelmingly to Ratify First-ever Union Contract

Jul 25, 2009 - Security officers with SEIU who protect Kaiser Permanente hospitals nationwide voted overwhelmingly today to ratify their first-ever union contract. The three year contract with private security company Securitas includes family healthcare and higher wages. Read more...

Another DREAMer Deportation Deferred

Jul 24, 2009 - oday, after just 24 hours of letters and calls by Senators Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg and hundreds of grassroots activists, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deferred the deportation of Taha, an 18-year-old honor student from Jersey City. As a result of DHS's actions, Taha will be allowed to finish college and continue his dream to become a pediatrician. Read more...

Tampa Airport Concessions Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Join Workers United in NLRB Election

Jul 24, 2009 - Yesterday, food service concession workers at the Tampa, Florida airport overwhelmingly voted by a wide margin to join Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Read more...

SEIU Security Officers Who Guard Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Nationwide Reach Tentative Agreement for First-ever Union Contract

Jul 24, 2009 - Security officers with SEIU United Service Workers West reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday night with private security company Securitas on a contract that would include family healthcare and higher wages for the 2,000 officers that are stationed at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California and across the nation Read more...

Tomorrow's Minimum Wage Increase Will Strengthen America's Economy

Jul 23, 2009 - Starting tomorrow, the Federal minimum wage is increasing to $7.25 per hour, the last part of the 2007 minimum wage legislation passed by Congress. Read more...

Prepared Comments of Kathy DeVincentis on Need for Healthcare Reform at Senate Press Conference

Jul 23, 2009 - Retired SEIU member Kathy DeVincentis stood with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders at a press conference on Capitol Hill today to share her story on the need for Congress to move quickly on healthcare reform. Read more...

Statement from SEIU President Andy Stern on President Obama's Comments Tonight on Healthcare Reform

Jul 22, 2009 - "Tonight, President Obama showed why workers across America put their faith in him last November - his commitment to changing the status quo and fixing our broken healthcare system." Read more...

13,000 Home Care Attendants Vote to Form Union to Improve Services for Seniors, People with Disabilities

Jul 22, 2009 - Placing Missouri on a path toward improved healthcare for thousands of its seniors and people with disabilities, 13,00 home care attendants in Missouri's consumer directed home care program have voted to join the Missouri Home Care Union, a statewide union of home care attendants. Read more...

SEIU Releases New Report Exposing Bank of America's Steep Cuts in Small Business Administration Lending Despite Taking Billions in Taxpayer Bailouts

Jul 22, 2009 - Today, as reported in USA Today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) unveiled a new report exposing Bank of America's drastic decline in Small Business Administration (SBA) lending to the country's struggling small businesses despite the billions the bank received in taxpayer-funded bailouts to spark renewed lending. Read more...

Schumer Moves Ball Forward on Immigration Reform

Jul 21, 2009 - SEIU commends Senator Schumer and members of the Judiciary Subcommittee for rolling up their sleeves and starting to lay the groundwork for a thoughtful, solution-driven debate on comprehensive immigration reform this fall. Yet, the current E-Verify program needs significant improvements before it can serve as an effective component of comprehensive reform. Read more...

U.S. Chamber, Big Banks Continue Attack on America's Economic Recovery

Jul 21, 2009 - Today, SEIU released a statement from Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger following reports that Congress is delaying action on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency following lobbying efforts and a letter from the U.S. Chamber and big banks. Read more...

Tenet Nurses, Healthcare Workers Take Action to Protest Sick Leave Cuts Tenet Nurses, Healthcare Workers Take Action to Protest Sick Leave Cuts

Jul 21, 2009 - Registered Nurses and hospital workers who provide care at hospitals owned by Tenet Healthcare Corporation organized an unprecedented national protest today against attempts to cut their access to sick leave. Read more...

House Committees Increase Momentum on Long March towards American Healthcare Reform

Jul 17, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern released the following statement after the House Ways & Means and Education & Labor Committees concluded their markup of healthcare reform legislation, joining the Senate HELP Committee in proving that comprehensive reform is both fiscally responsible and legislatively achievable this year. Read more...

Statement by SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on New Report Showing Unions Make More Family-Friendly Workplaces

Jul 16, 2009 - SEIU Anna Burger's statement on a new report that finds that companies with more unionized workers are more likely to pay for family health insurance premiums, embrace paid leave, and allow the use of personal leave to care for a sick child. Read more...

Montana SEIU Member Tells Senators How Affordable Health Choices Act Will Help Her

Jul 16, 2009 - SEIU Member and Montana homecare worker Patricia DeJong today stood with Democratic Senators Dodd, Harkin and Mikulski at a press conference on Capitol Hill today to share how The Affordable Health Choices Act passed yesterday by the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will help hardworking Americans like her Read more...

SEIU Members in California Congratulate Congresswoman-Elect Judy Chu

Jul 15, 2009 - Representing 700,000 California members, the Service Employees International Union today congratulated Dr. Judy Chu on her election to United States Congress representing California's 32nd District. Read more...

SEIU Commends Senate HELP Committee for Legislation that Guarantees Americans have Access to Affordable Healthcare

Jul 15, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern released the following statement after the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pension Committee concluded its markup of healthcare reform legislation. Read more...

SEIU: House Democrats Make Good on Promise to Deliver Quality, Affordable Healthcare for All

Jul 14, 2009 - House Democrats unveiled a healthcare bill today that proves comprehensive reform is both fiscally responsible and legislatively achievable this year. The plan guarantees quality, affordable care for every American and offsets costs with tough spending cuts and a fairer tax system. Read more...

Start of Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Reminder America is Still the Land of Opportunity

Jul 13, 2009 - "Today, millions of Hispanic children and young girls of every race, religion and background will look at coverage of Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearing in their newspaper, TV or computer screen and picture themselves in her chair," said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger today on the start of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Read more...

SEIU on AIG Bonus Requests: You've Got to be Kidding Us

Jul 10, 2009 - Today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), who staged nationwide protests over AIG bonuses in March, demanded that AIG halt the millions in bonuses they are seeking to give top executives. Additionally, SEIU took aim at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who has consistently defended the bonus pay-outs. Read more...

SEIU: Consumer Financial Protection Agency Will Restore Faith and Confidence in Financial Industry

Jul 09, 2009 - ervice Employees International Union Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released a statement on the introduction of H.R. 3126, which will establish a much-needed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Read more...

U.S. Senate's Expansion of Reckless E-Verify System is Harmful for All Workers

Jul 08, 2009 - Today the U.S. Senate passed an amendment by Senator Jeff Sessions to the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill to permanently mandate use of the E-Verify employment verification system for all employees of Federal contractors. SEIU, which scored the vote, has long opposed the expansion of a program that has repeatedly been proven to be flawed and costly by the Social Security Administration and the Congressional Budget Office. Read more...

SEIU Reiterates Call for Financial Reform that Includes Protections for Bank Workers to Speak Out for Consumers, Economy

Jul 07, 2009 - Today, the Service Employees International Union released a statement from Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on news in the Washington Post that the U.S. Chamber and banking industry are intensifying their lobbying efforts against financial reform. Read more...

Proteje a la Democracia en Honduras

Jul 07, 2009 - Hoy el Sindicato Internacional de Trabajadores de Servicios (SEIU), en solidaridad con las organizaciones hermanas en Honduras - el Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras (CUTH), la Confederación de Trabajadores Hondureñas (CTH), el Central General de Trabajadores (CGT), y la Confederación Sindical de las Américas (CSA), que representa más de 45 millones de trabajadores en las Américas Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for July 8: "HealthCare Remix" Discussion on Reform

Jul 06, 2009 - SEIU, Lupus Foundation for America Greater Washington and Future of Music Coalition to hold open discussion on how individuals in the arts & beyond can benefit from reform. The event is planned in conjunction with the 4th Annual J Dilla Tribute & Fundraiser presented by SEIU, LFAGW & Hedrush Entertainment. Read more...

Protect Democracy in Honduras

Jul 06, 2009 - Today the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), standing in solidarity with sister organizations in Honduras--the Unitary Central of Honduran Workers (CUTH), the Confederation of Honduran Workers (CTH), the General Workers Central (CGT), and the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA), which represents over 45 million workers in the hemisphere--issued the following statement condemning the military coup that resulted in the illegal ouster of democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya. Read more...

Walter Lara Independence Day Victory!

Jul 02, 2009 - Today, after 48 hours of intense activism by Congressional Leaders, bloggers, and thousands of grassroots activists who made calls and sent letters on Walter Lara's behalf, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to defer 23-year old Lara's scheduled deportation back one year until July 3, 2010. Read more...

HELP Committee Seizes Moment to Drive Down Healthcare Costs and Guarantee Choice for All Working Families

Jul 02, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern released the following statement on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee's release of their complete bill. Read more...

SEIU to Citigroup: Shameful to Raise Interest Rates During Economic Crisis

Jul 01, 2009 - SEIU's Anna Burger: "It's shameful that Citigroup would raise interest rates on millions of Americans during a time when record unemployment and home foreclosures are forcing families to rely more and more on their credit cards just to get by." Read more...

Anna Burger: It is Time to Seat Al Franken in the U.S. Senate

Jun 30, 2009 - Change to Win chair and SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement on today's decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court that Al Franken is entitled to a certificate of election as Minnesota's next U.S. Senator: Read more...

Rep. Keith Ellison, SEIU, Consumer Groups Join Bank Workers Speaking Out Against Anti-Consumer Sales Practices, Failed Banking Model

Jun 30, 2009 - Today, as President Obama detailed new consumer protection legislation, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), SEIU, the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) joined current and former Bank of America workers speaking out against anti-consumer sales practices and a failed banking model and calling for needed reforms to protect front-line bank workers and consumers. Read more...

SEIU Endorses Creigh Deeds For Governor

Jun 30, 2009 - Today, Loretta Johnson and the more than 5,000 hardworking Virginia members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) endorsed State Senator Creigh Deeds for Governor as the best candidate to create good jobs that can support a family and seek real solutions to the big issues that face all Virginians like healthcare reform and reliable public services. Read more...

Believe Together Coalition Celebrates Largest Ever Faith-Inspired Mobilization for Health Care Reform

Jun 25, 2009 - Americans of many faiths gathered in Freedom Plaza yesterday evening to unite in support of a health care future that is grounded in the sacred bonds of our common humanity, defined by compassion, especially for those who are most vulnerable, and reflective of faithful stewardship of our abundant health care resources. Read more...

SEIU Statement on White House Immigration Meeting

Jun 25, 2009 - Today, President Barack Obama met with a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders to discuss steps for passing comprehensive immigration reform. Read more...

Healthcare Equality Advocates "Light the Night" For Reform, Demand Congressional Action On Disparities

Jun 24, 2009 - Tonight, thousands of healthcare workers, doctors, nurses and other frontline caregivers, joined activists and healthcare equality advocates at "Lighting the Night, Equality '09," hosted by the Healthcare Equality Project, to demand that Congressional reform efforts address systemic inequality in the American healthcare system. Read more...

Passage of the DREAM Act Will Allow Next Generation of Leaders to Achieve Their Own American Dream

Jun 23, 2009 - Today, with the U.S. Capitol's Statue of Freedom reaching to the sky behind them, more than 500 students from across the country took part in a symbolic graduation ceremony to urge Congress to support our nation's future leaders by passing the DREAM Act. Read more...

Regarding the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Landmark Principles: Respecting the Just Rights of Workers: Guidance and Options for Catholic Healthcare and Unions

Jun 22, 2009 - Today's announcement by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) marks an incredibly powerful and hope-filled moment for more than 600,000 healthcare workers and Catholic hospitals across America. Read more...

U.S. Chamber Attacks on Healthcare Reform Hurting Small Businesses

Jun 19, 2009 - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's attacks on healthcare reform are hurting small businesses at a time when they're already struggling, say small business owners. Read more...

White House Plan to Cleanup Wall Street, Stabilize Economy & Protect Consumers is Strong First Step

Jun 17, 2009 - Today, Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer of the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) and a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, issued the following statement in response to the White House's fiscal reform plan: "The White House plan is a significant first step towards reforming and holding accountable a financial system whose irresponsible, risky practices have destabilized our economy and devastated millions of hard working families..." Read more...

Top 10 Historical U.S. Chamber Quotes Against Healthcare

Jun 17, 2009 - The fact is, America's healthcare system is broken and all the right-wing continues to do is champion the status quo and purposely distort the reality of what fixing healthcare will mean to millions of American families. The Chamber's assault on the current bill is simply the latest in a string of attacks on common-sense healthcare reforms during the course of their existence. Read more...

International Executive Board of SEIU Unanimously Adopts Landmark Ethics & Standards Package for Union

Jun 15, 2009 - At the June meeting of the International Executive Board (IEB) of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the highest governing body of the union between conventions, board members voted unanimously over the weekend to adopt a rigorous and sweeping package of ethical standards and practices to be applied union-wide. Read more...

Coalition of Doctor Organizations: "Our Patients Deserve the Choice of a Public Health Insurance Option"

Jun 15, 2009 - Doctors from several national organizations, which combined represent 215,000 physicians and physicians-in-training, issued a statement this morning in support of achieving health care reform this year, including the creation of a robust, high-quality public health insurance option. Read more...

Workers at Caritas Carney Hospital in Boston Vote to Join 1199SEIU

Jun 10, 2009 - Following a two-day, hospital-wide vote, nearly 500 caregivers at Caritas Carney Hospital in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston voted overwhelmingly (79% YES) to join 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest labor union of healthcare workers in Massachusetts. Carney Hospital is part of Caritas Christi Health Care, the largest community based hospital system in the state. Read more...

As U.S. Chamber Announces $100 Million Campaign, SEIU Seeks to Expose Chamber's Anti-Working Families Record

Jun 10, 2009 - The very same day that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced a $100 million campaign to "defend the free market system," SEIU announced a campaign of its own: to expose the Chamber's record of opposing working families and common-sense legislation that would help our economy. Read more...

On Heels of Chamber's Failed Lobby Day, SEIU Asks Senators to Stand With Working Families, Not Greedy Corporate Lobbyists

Jun 10, 2009 - Just days after the Chamber of Commerce hosted an embarrassing anti-Employee Free Choice Act Lobby Day--an effort that succeeded in getting two Senators to reinforce their support for the legislation, and that featured a major labor law violator--SEIU today released a series of ads calling on targeted Senators to "stand with working families," not "the CEO bullies of Wall Street." Read more...

Stern Statement regarding HELP Committee's Americans Health Choices Act

Jun 09, 2009 - Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union, provided the following statement upon release of the Senate HELP Committee draft of Healthcare Reform legislation. Read more...

SEIU: Passing "Reuniting Families Act" Is Long Overdue

Jun 04, 2009 - SEIU Vice President Eliseo Medina released the following statement today in support of the "Reuniting Families Act" introduced today by California Congressman Mike Honda: "[...] For too many SEIU members and other hard working immigrants, bureaucratic backlogs and wait times keep their families thousands of miles away. This legislation will help reduce illegal immigration through several long-sought improvements to our family-based visa system." Read more...

Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign Launched to Spearhead National Immigration Reform Effort

Jun 03, 2009 - At today's press conference, leaders of labor unions, business coalitions, civil rights and religious groups, and pro-immigrant advocacy organizations announced the Reform Immigration FOR America campaign--an effort to focus the political power of these diverse constituencies and give the American people a way to communicate their broad support for comprehensive immigration reform directly to lawmakers in Washington. Read more...

SEIU Vows to Block Governor Schwarzenegger's Assault on Home Care

Jun 02, 2009 - SEIU intends to fight the Governor's callous and immoral budget proposals and advance real solutions that enhance state and federal revenue--and reduce the amount that must be cut from home care and other vital services Californians need. Read more...

SEIU to Vitter: You Can Run (For Re-election) But You Can't Hide (From Your Voting Record)

May 29, 2009 - Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), facing an uphill battle for reelection and wanting to keep his options open for 2012, has aimed his fire on SEIU, who dared to draw attention to his shameful anti-working families record in a new ad that ran in Thursday's Times-Picayune. Read more...

Senseless Budget Cuts Will Gut California's Cost Efficient Home Care Program and Force Seniors and People with Disabilities Out of Their Homes and into Institutions

May 26, 2009 - Seniors, people with disabilities and the people who provide the care that permits them to live at home launched a statewide effort today to fight back against Governor Schwarzenegger's sharp and deep budget cuts with a 48-hour vigil at the State Capitol, a class-action lawsuit, and a new television and print ad campaign featuring President Barack Obama. Read more...

SEIU Raises Concerns about Private Equity-Owned Banks

May 26, 2009 - SEIU is raising a red flag on last week's FDIC deal to sell Florida's BankUnited to a consortium of private equity firms. Read more...

Media Advisory: CA Seniors, Home Caregivers and Community Supporters to Hold 48-Hour Vigil on State Capitol Grounds to Protest Massive Cuts to Services

May 26, 2009 - Facing threat of losing vital services that allow them to stay in their homes, seniors and people with disabilities will join home care workers from across the state in a 48-hour vigil on the grounds of the State Capitol. The proposed cuts come just months after California gave corporations more than $1.5 billion in unnecessary tax breaks, far more than needed to maintain home care services. Read more...

Working Women and Men of SEIU Hail Supreme Court Nominee as Extraordinary Choice for Today and Tomorrow

May 26, 2009 - Statement of SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States: "Some choices are made for today; others are decided with the future in mind: this choice is right on both counts..." Read more...

SEIU: Pass "The Healthy Families Act" To Help Workers and Businesses

May 22, 2009 - "Hard-working Americans deserve to know that they can go see a doctor without losing their job," said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger, following the introduction late yesterday of "The Healthy Families Act" by Senator Kennedy. Representative DeLauro introduced the legislation into the House of Representatives earlier this week. Read more...

Groups Unveil Progressive Revenue Options for Healthcare Reform

May 21, 2009 - Today Citizens for Tax Justice joined Health Care for America Now and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to unveil a report outlining an array of revenue options that can provide the necessary funds to implement President Obama's proposals to reform healthcare. Read more...

Statement by SEIU President Andy Stern on Governor Schwarzenegger's Plan to Hurt California's Most Vulnerable Citizens and Workers

May 20, 2009 - Today SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement in response to Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts. Read more...

SEIU: Hold Credit Card Companies Accountable for Good of Our Economy

May 19, 2009 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released the following statement after today's overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the Senate to pass the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act... Read more...

Media Advisory: Faith Leaders Converge on Washington to Lobby Congress on Employee Free Choice Act

May 19, 2009 - More than 50 interfaith leaders from across the country will fly to Washington, DC tomorrow, lobbying Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. Read more...

SEIU Launches New "Keep America Working" Hotline and Website to Support Workers and Small Business Owners as Big Banks Push to Liquidate

May 14, 2009 - Today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) launched a toll-free hotline and website--Keep America Working--to support small business owners and workers facing job loss because of frozen credit and liquidation at the hands of bailed-out banks. Visit www.keepworkinghotline.org if your company is facing liquidation threats from big banks. Read more...

Religious Leaders Call on Congress to Pass Employee Free Choice Act

May 12, 2009 - Prominent interfaith leaders today called on Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, calling it a "moral imperative" and a civil and human right. Read more...

SEIU: "It's Time Everyone Pays Their Fair Share to Rebuild Our Economy"

May 11, 2009 - SEIU members wake up and work hard to put food on the table and strengthen their community while getting through a healthcare crisis, a housing crisis, a higher education crisis and the list goes on and on. At the same time, American businesses reap the benefits of millions spent on Washington lobbying with tax codes that allow them to shirk their responsibility to pay taxes and actually pay them to create jobs overseas instead of here in America. Read more...

Hartmarx Workers Vote to "Sit In" to Save Their Jobs

May 11, 2009 - Today, 500 workers at the Chicago-based apparel firm Hart Schaffner & Marx held a rally and historic "sit in" vote to fight for their jobs, as major lender and TARP fund recipient Wells Fargo & Co. pushes for a bankruptcy closure of the facility. Read more...

SEIU Announces Unprecedented Coalition to Save $2 Trillion in Healthcare Costs, Pass Obama Healthcare Plan

May 11, 2009 - SEIU, AdvaMed, AHA, PhRMA, America's Health Insurance Plans and the AMA have met with President Obama and committed to the President's vision of meaningful healthcare reform that guarantees every American access to affordable, high quality healthcare. Read more...

SEIU to Congress: Pass Employee Free Choice Act As Part of Obama's Job Creation Plan

May 08, 2009 - As President Obama laid out his latest plans to help the nation's unemployed millions, SEIU International President Andy Stern today called on Congress to implement the Employee Free Choice Act as a priority part of the President's job creation plan. Read more...

Obama Administration Rules Against California's Proposed Wage Cuts to Homecare Workers

May 08, 2009 - In a major victory for California's 250,000 In-Home Supportive Service (IHSS) workers and the 440,000 seniors and people with disabilities who rely on IHSS for daily care, the Obama Administration has ruled that proposed cuts to the IHSS program violate the terms of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Read more...

Report Shows Falling Standards For NJ School Food Service Workers

May 07, 2009 - Thousands of school food service workers in New Jersey are living at or near poverty and the state's $200 million industry, dominated by Fairfield, NJ based Pomptonian Food Service Read more...

Corporate Lobbyists Attacking Employee Free Choice Act Show True Colors, Oppose Rules to Rein in Greedy CEOs

May 07, 2009 - Corporate lobbyists attacking the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would allow workers to bargain with their employers for better job security, wages and benefits, are showing their true colors when it comes to rules intended to rein in greedy CEOs. Read more...

SEIU Statement on Bank of America's Failure to Pass Stress Test

May 06, 2009 - SEIU's Anna Burger released the following statement on the federal government's Stress Tests for Bank of America: "These stress tests prove what the American public has known for a long time: Bank of America is failing taxpayers and our economy. And now taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $150 billion in additional public assistance." Read more...

SEIU and Workers United Lay Out Clear Path to Resolving Issues and Serving Workers

Apr 30, 2009 - In a forthright attempt to resolve the disputes between UNITE HERE and Workers United, an affiliate of SEIU, leaders of SEIU and Workers United laid out a clear path to resolve these differences in a way that serves the interest of union members and workers in the industries the unions represent. Read more...

SEIU Vice President Eliseo Medina Testifies In Support Of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Apr 30, 2009 - Today, SEIU Vice President Eliseo Medina testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security. At a hearing on the need for passing comprehensive immigration reform in 2009, Medina detailed a unified reform framework that was released earlier this month by Change to Win (which includes SEIU) and AFL-CIO. Read more...

Bank of America Must Act on All Taxpayer Demands to Restore Economy

Apr 30, 2009 - Tens of thousands of taxpayers took action this week at Bank of America branches in nearly 100 cities to demand the failed bank take action to create an economy that works for all. Nearly 100,000 taxpayers declared those demands on "Taxpayer Proxies" and yesterday taxpayers, former Bank of America workers, religious leaders, and community allies took those demands directly to the Bank of America annual shareholder meeting. Read more...

SEIU Master Trust Leads Successful Shareholder Resolution that Forces Ken Lewis to Resign as Bank of America Chair

Apr 29, 2009 - Today, in one of the most contentious annual shareholder meetings in Bank of America's (BAC) history, shareholders called for new leadership and greater accountability as 50.3 percent voted in favor of a resolution forcing Chairman Ken Lewis to resign as Chairman of the Board. Read more...

Taxpayers, Bank Workers, Community Allies Deliver Demands of Tens of Thousands of Taxpayers at Bank of America Shareholder Meeting

Apr 29, 2009 - Following actions in nearly 100 cities, taxpayers, bank workers, and community allies delivered the demands of nearly tens of thousands of nurses, security officers, child care providers, and other taxpayers at Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting in Charlotte today to restore balance to the economy and eliminate corporate excess. Read more...

Sebelius Confirmation Brings America One Step Closer To Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System

Apr 28, 2009 - "The 6 million hardworking Change to Win affiliate members hoped the current economic crisis and overwhelming burden healthcare costs place on working families would be enough for a speedy confirmation. We are encouraged that obstructionists in the Senate have finally realized that dragging their feet on reforming our healthcare system only harms working families, small businesses and our economy. A potential pandemic with severe economic consequences only reaffirmed the immediate and critical need for leadership at HHS. Read more...

SEIU President Andy Stern Statement on Senator Arlen Specter

Apr 28, 2009 - It's clear to us that the right-wing conservatives in control of the leadership of the Republican party in Pennsylvania left Senator Specter long ago and we are pleased that he has decided to do the same. Read more...

SEIU's Anna Burger Statement on Obama 100 Days: "Turning the promise of change into reality."

Apr 28, 2009 - President Obama has made it clear from day one that we will not be able to rebuild our economy stronger than it was without a greater voice, and greater prosperity, for American workers. Read more...

Tens of Thousands of Taxpayers Take Action at Bank of America Branches Nationwide to Take Back the Economy

Apr 28, 2009 - Fueled by mounting frustration over an economic system that rewards corporate executives for their bad decisions while working people struggle to stay afloat, tens of thousands of taxpayers took action today at Bank of America branches across the country in advance of Bank of America's Annual Shareholder Meeting. Read more...

Tens of Thousands of Taxpayers Take Action at Bank of America Branches Nationwide to Take Back the Economy

Apr 28, 2009 - Fueled by mounting frustration over an economic system that rewards corporate executives for their bad decisions while working people struggle to stay afloat, tens of thousands of taxpayers took action today at Bank of America branches across the country in advance of Bank of America's Annual Shareholder Meeting. Read more...

SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Condemns PR Governor Fortuño's plan to lay off tens of thousands of public workers, privatize public services

Apr 27, 2009 - The following is a statement from Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), condemning Puerto Rico Governor Fortuno's so-called 'austerity' plan that would dismiss more than 30,000 public employees, privatize government services, and suspend many labor rights. Read more...

American Families Can't Afford Continued Delay on HHS Nominee

Apr 23, 2009 - President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services has yet to be confirmed by the Senate despite her proven commitment to bipartisanship. Read more...

Tens of Thousands of Taxpayers to Protest at 100s of Bank of America Branches Nationwide

Apr 23, 2009 - Fueled by mounting frustration over an economic system that rewards corporate executives for their bad decisions while working people struggle to stay afloat, tens of thousands of taxpayers will protest at Bank of America branches across the country on April 28th in advance of Bank of America's Annual Shareholder Meeting. Read more...

SEIU: Today's SPLC Report Is "A Wakeup Call" For America

Apr 21, 2009 - SEIU International Executive Vice-President Eliseo Medina released the following statement on today's report by the Southern Poverty Law Center examining the discrimination and abuse of Hispanic workers in the South: Read more...

SEIU Master Trust Demands Investigation of More Than $5 Billion in Questionable Payouts for Executives in 29 of its Portfolio Companies

Apr 20, 2009 - Today the SEIU Master Trust, a consortium of pension funds with approximately $1.3 billion in assets, threw down the gauntlet to executives profiting off the risk shouldered by shareholders. Read more...

Change to Win And AFL-CIO Unveil Unified Immigration Reform Framework

Apr 14, 2009 - Change to Win and the AFL-CIO today unveiled a unified framework for comprehensive immigration reform legislation. The joint announcement and proposal is a critical sign of support for the Administration and Congress to address immigration reform - and to ensure that it remains a priority on the legislative calendar. Read more...

SEIU to Chamber of Commerce: 'Stop Using Taxpayer Bailout Funds to Undermine Working Families and Impede Economic Recovery'

Apr 13, 2009 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger Responds to Chamber of Commerce Using Taxpayer Bailout to Fund Anti-Employee Free Choice Campaign Read more...

More than 800 Workers at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center Make History with Vote to join 1199SEIU

Apr 09, 2009 - In one of the Largest Union Votes at a Boston Area Hospital in decades, workers unite for the best patient care, for their families and for each other Read more...

NLRB Upholds SEIU UHW as Union for 48,000 Kaiser Workers, Dismisses Bogus Petitions to Decertify

Apr 09, 2009 - On April 7, the National Labor Relations Board officially dismissed a petition seeking to decertify SEIU UHW as the union representing more than 48,000 caregivers at Kaiser Permanente facilities Read more...

United States District Court Issues Temporary Restraining Order Against NUHW and Former Leaders of SEIU UHW;

Apr 09, 2009 - Today, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) Read more...

Statement of Andy Stern in Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dedication to Working Families

Apr 03, 2009 - This weekend, we will remember the life and the dream of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his dedication to uplifting all Americans seeking social justice and economic freedom. Read more...

Congress' Passage of Obama's Budget Puts Our Country One Step Closer to the Health Reform Americans Demanded in November

Apr 03, 2009 - All around this country, families are struggling with mounting healthcare debt, small business owners are wondering if they will have to shutter their doors, and healthcare providers are witnessing one tragic story after another because of the weight our current healthcare system is putting on our shoulders Read more...

Statement of Andy Stern, President, Service Employees International Union Regarding the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America

Apr 01, 2009 - Millions of working women and men and their families face almost insurmountable barriers to better health on a daily basis: deplorable working conditions, substandard housing and schools, and poor access to fresh and healthy meals. Read more...

Al Sharpton's National Action Network Honors SEIU President Andy Stern for Work on Civil Rights, Social/ Economic Justice and Equality

Apr 01, 2009 - On Wednesday, April 1st, Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern will be recognized for his social and political advocacy work by Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network (NAN) at the 11th annual Keepers of the Dream awards. Read more...

With GM Chief Wagoner Out, SEIU Says, 'Fire Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis Next'

Mar 31, 2009 - On the heels of General Motors Chief Executive Rick Wagoner's firing Monday for his mismanagement of a company that received billions in taxpayer dollars, SEIU called for Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis to be next. Read more...

Nurses Win $13.6 Million Settlement Aimed at Boosting Recruitment, Retention in Detroit-Area Hospitals

Mar 31, 2009 - Nurses in the Detroit area are celebrating a settlement that has been reached with St. John's Health System of a class action lawsuit brought to expose attempts by area hospitals to hold down wages for nurses despite an ongoing shortage of RNs wiling to work in acute care hospitals. Read more...

Labor Unions, Environmental Organizations Urge Passage of Climate Change Legislation in 2009

Mar 27, 2009 - Four labor unions and two environmental organizations today announced their support for comprehensive cap-and-trade climate change legislation in 2009. The Blue Green Alliance and its partner organizations said this legislation is an effective way to rapidly put millions of Americans back to work building a clean energy economy and to reduce global warming emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Read more...

SEIU: "The DREAM Act will contribute to America's future prosperity by freeing a new generation to build a stronger America"

Mar 26, 2009 - The DREAM Act will contribute to America's future prosperity by freeing a new generation to build a stronger America. SEIU's 2 million members strongly support this bi-partisan legislation because it reinforces what America has always stood for-if you work hard you can make a difference and make the world a better place. Read more...

Landmark Nurses' Lawsuit to Improve Staffing Moves Forward

Mar 26, 2009 - A landmark lawsuit filed by registered nurses in Detroit over efforts by hospitals in their area to conspire to hold down wages for nurses-even in the face of a chronic shortage of nurses willing to work in acute care hospitals-will move forward after a federal judge rejected attempts to have the case dismissed. Read more...

Statement from SEIU President Andy Stern on the Employee Free Choice Act

Mar 24, 2009 - In the middle of this economic crisis, passing the Employee Free Choice Act is exactly the right thing to do to give workers the chance to level the playing field. Read more...

Major Coalition Launches Health Care Equality Project, Demands Swift Action to Eliminate Health Care Disparities Through Healthcare Reform

Mar 24, 2009 - More than 20 major labor, community, health, civil rights, social justice, and faith organizations gathered in Washington today to kick off a major coalition campaign, the Healthcare Equality Project, to fight healthcare disparities. Read more...

SEIU and Workers United Announce Affiliation

Mar 23, 2009 - A common mission, a common history and common challenges in this new economy bring Workers United and SEIU together to achieve their mutual goal of bringing dignity and security to members and workers in the garment, textile, laundry, distribution, property services and hospitality industries. Read more...

SEIU: CBO Deficit Projections Reinforce "Now Is the Time to Take Action" to Fix America's Broken Healthcare System

Mar 20, 2009 - The release of new deficit projections today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) emphasize the need for Congress to pass President Obama's budget so that we can fix the major underlying problems with America's economy. "American families cannot afford to wait for the change that is necessary to reform our economy and broken healthcare system," said SEIU's Anna Burger. "We cannot let opponents of change stand in the way." Read more...

10,000 Join in Nationwide Protests at AIG and Major U.S. Banks Today

Mar 19, 2009 - The bonus scandals at AIG and the big banks are the last straw. Americans have simply had it with an economy that keeps delivering for top executives while leaving working people falling behind. Read more...

SEIU, CNA/NNOC Announce Major Accord

Mar 19, 2009 - In a dramatic agreement likely to accelerate the drive to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and rapidly promote unionization in the healthcare sector, SEIU and CNA/NNOC today announced the signing of a transformative cooperation agreement. Read more...

10,000 to Protest at Major U.S. Banks and Firms, including AIG, Bank of America, and Citigroup

Mar 17, 2009 - With almost daily revelations of abuses by Wall Street giants, some 10,000 Americans will participate in over 100 actions in over 30 states on Thursday, March 19 to push the solutions needed to rebuild the economy on sound, strong footing. Read more...

Fire Sale of Bank Assets Would Hurt Taxpayers; It's Time for an Economy That Works for Everyone

Mar 16, 2009 - SEIU's Anna Burger issued a statement on Secretary Geithner's latest TALF proposal today: "Treasury Secretary Geithner's plan to invite private equity and hedge fund investors to a fire sale of bank assets is a return to the very same policies and practices that triggered the financial crisis in the first place." Read Burger's entire statement here. Read more...

Workers From Across Nation Lobby Congress to Get Economy Back on Track with Employee Free Choice Act

Mar 10, 2009 - On Tuesday, Congressman George Miller (D-CA) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill to make it easier for workers to bargain with their employers for better wages and healthcare. At the same time, hundreds of workers from across the country descended on Washington to lobby their own Members of Congress on the importance of the bill. Read more...

Testimony of Kelly Badillo, Member of SEIU 32BJ Before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee

Mar 10, 2009 - My story exemplifies that businesses and unions can work together for the benefit of hardworking Americans like me. My daughters are grown and have jobs of their own, but I can only hope they can enjoy a strong voice on the workplace like I have had. Read more...

Hundreds Demonstrate at Chamber of Commerce, Industry Groups To Expose Massive Anti-Worker Lobbying Even as Individual Firms Attempt Low Profile

Mar 09, 2009 - Nurses, janitors, security officers, and hundreds of other workers from across the country rallied today at the offices of major corporate industry associations to expose the huge scope of their DC lobbying against measures that could help working people in today's economy. Read more...

Nurses Celebrate Landmark Legal Settlement That Will Help Ensure Fair Compensation, Improve Patient Safety and Staffing

Mar 09, 2009 - The $1.25 million deal is the first settlement in 5 lawsuits nationally aimed at stopping hospitals from conspiring to depress nurse wages. Read more...

SEIU Healthcare's Dennis Rivera: "There's No Time to Waste"

Mar 05, 2009 - SEIU Healthcare Chair Dennis Rivera released the following statement after participating in today's White House Forum on Health Reform: Read more...

Hundreds of Workers Head to Washington Monday to Press Lawmakers, Lobbyists and CEOs on Need for Workers' Voices in Rebuilding Economy

Mar 05, 2009 - Nurses, janitors, security officers, and hundreds of other workers from across the country will head to Washington, D.C. next week to tell lawmakers, lobbyists, and corporate CEOs to stand with them and take immediate steps to create an economy that works for everyone. Read more...

SEIU Homecare Member from Chicago Testifies for Family-Friendly Workplace Policies

Mar 03, 2009 - Today, Rebia Mixon Clay, a homecare worker from Chicago, testified before the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections about the need for Congress to enact family-friendly policies that make sound economic sense not only in good times, but during recessionary times as well. Read more...

Kathleen Sebelius Ready to Lead Healthcare Reform in 2009

Mar 02, 2009 - President Obama's appointment of Governor Kathleen Sebelius confirms his commitment to health care reform. This is yet another clear signal that this is the year to make quality, affordable health care for everyone a reality. Read more...

Green Jobs: "Clear Path to a Stronger Middle Class and a Stronger American Economy"

Feb 27, 2009 - Change to Win Chair and SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger, issued the following statement about the first meeting of the Middle Class Task Force today, chaired by Vice President Joe Biden, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Read more...

President Obama's Budget: "A New Era for Working Families"

Feb 26, 2009 - Change to Win Chair and SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger, issued the following statement about President Barack Obama's proposed budget. Read more...

Former Officers Risked Contracts, Security of Members, say Trustees of UHW

Feb 26, 2009 - SEIU reviews emergency aspects of UHW trusteeship in hearing; UHW Trustees move forward to stabilize local and protect members' gains put at risk by former president, officers Read more...

SEIU Launches Illinois TV Ad in Support of Congressional Candidate & Healthcare Champion Sara Feigenholtz

Feb 25, 2009 - In anticipation of next week's special primary election, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced today that it has begun a new, aggressive television ad campaign to elect State Representative Sara Feigenholtz Read more...

The Bold Leadership America Needs to Confront A Broken Healthcare System

Feb 24, 2009 - Change to Win Chair and SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement after attending President Obama's address to Congress this evening: Read more...

Statement of SEIU President Andy Stern on Secretary Hilda Solis

Feb 24, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement following today's bipartisan vote by the U.S. Senate to confirm Hilda Solis' as the next Secretary of Labor. Read more...

Statement of SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger Following White House Fiscal Responsibility Summit

Feb 23, 2009 - SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued a statement after participating in today's White House Fiscal Responsibility Summit: "Today under President Obama's leadership, representatives from government, civil society, academia, business and labor united as a country to get our economy back on track." Read the rest here. Read more...

Burger King Appears to Back Off Opposition to Employee Free Choice Act

Feb 23, 2009 - Following the release of a report and video exposing poor business practices and efforts to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act by Burger King and Goldman Sachs--one of Burger King's largest shareholders--and after a week of protests at Burger King locations across the country, Burger King attempted to distance itself from its own record of working against the interests of working families. Read more...

New Report to be released on Feb 19. to Show How Union Job Growth Will Aid CA Economic Recovery

Feb 18, 2009 - As the national focus begins to shift from passage of the Economic Recovery Act to securing long-term solutions for re-building the middle class, a coalition of leading academics, religious leaders, and civil rights leaders will gather to advocate for the Employee Free Choice Act, which would give employees greater freedom to join a union. Read more...

'King Size Combo:' New Report Reveals Broad Toll on Taxpayers by Bailed-Out Bank Goldman Sachs and Its Holdings in Burger King

Feb 17, 2009 - As Congress and the Obama administration look to hold major banks that have received billions in federal bailout funds better accountable for their corporate practices, a report released today by SEIU on Goldman Sachs and its holdings in Burger King finds that the true total of taxpayer subsidies some of the banks are enjoying extends well beyond the monies they've taken through the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Read more...

Rallies in Five Cities Planned On Friday the 13th to Protect CA Families from the Bad Budget Deal and Permanent, Deep Cuts to Homecare, Education, and Other Vital Services

Feb 12, 2009 - As the Governor and legislators announced a budget deal that includes temporary revenues in exchange for deep cuts and a budget cap that makes them permanent, SEIU members and community allies from around the state plan to rally in front of the Capitol Building in Sacramento and the Governor's offices in Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno and San Diego on Thursday and Friday of this week. Read more...

SEIU Urges Full Senate Vote On Rep. Hilda Solis for Secretary of Labor (Press Release)

Feb 11, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement on the importance of today's vote by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Representative Hilda Solis' nomination as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Read more...

SEIU Calls for Lobbying Prohibitions on Big Banks Receiving Taxpayer Bailout

Feb 11, 2009 - As CEOs from eight major banks that received $125 billion in taxpayer bailout funds since October come before a U.S. House congressional hearing today to account for their use of the funds, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today called for strong measures to prevent the taxpayer bailout recipients from spending money on public policy lobbying that may be against taxpayers' interests. Read more...

New Private Equity Principles Just a Fig Leaf; Failed Attempt to Mask 'Greediness' As Usual

Feb 10, 2009 - Today, in coordination with the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Private Equity Council released a new code of responsible corporate practices. Read more...

Labor Union and Major Health Care Agency Renew Groundbreaking National Agreement to Protect Workers, Health Care Options, and Critical Community Services

Feb 10, 2009 - SEIU and Addus HealthCare, Inc. today signed a renewed national agreement that will further improve home care for seniors and people with disabilities by covering 10,000 Addus HealthCare, Inc. workers in 11 states -- California, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Montana, Delaware and Washington. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for Feb. 11: SEIU To Ask Hard Questions of Bank Bailout Recipients Lobbying Against Working Families; Call for Congressional Action

Feb 10, 2009 - As Congress brings CEOs from eight big banks that have received a combined $125 billion in taxpayer bailout funds since October before a U.S. House Hearing Wednesday, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will hold a press availability outside the Rayburn House Office Building at 9AM on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Read more...

SEIU to Conferees on Recovery Bill: Don't Shortchange Working People

Feb 10, 2009 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger today sent a letter to House-Senate conferees that thanks members of Congress for their urgent and necessary efforts so far to create jobs that will stem the economic crisis and that urges them to complete work quickly on a comprehensive plan. Read more...

SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger Named to President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board

Feb 06, 2009 - Anna Burger, chair of the Change to Win labor federation and International Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is being named by President Obama to his Economic Recovery Advisory Board in a ceremony at the White House today along with other board members. Read more...

Statement of SEIU President Andy Stern on Rep. Hilda Solis for Secretary of Labor

Feb 05, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement on Representative Hilda Solis' nomination as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Read more...

New Hampshire SEIU Member Stands with Senators to Urge Passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Feb 05, 2009 - SEIU Member and New Hampshire state employee Jessica Paul today stood with Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Frank Lautenberg, Jeff Merkley and Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association at a press conference on Capitol Hill to discuss the urgent need to pass an economic recovery package. Read more...

SEIU Keeps The Focus On Comprehensive Health Care Reform As President Obama Signs SCHIP Legislation

Feb 04, 2009 - "With the economy in crisis and the cost of health insurance skyrocketing, too many of America's families have been forced to decide between taking their child to the doctor and paying their monthly bills. Today, President Obama made clear hardworking families should not have to make that choice," said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger, as the President signed a bipartisan bill to strengthen the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Read more...

Statement by SEIU President Andy Stern on Obama Administration Plans to Limit Executive Pay at Firms Receiving Bailout Money

Feb 04, 2009 - As we've seen with firms like Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, not only do big banks take billions in taxpayer bailouts and still allow bonuses, they're also taking taxpayer money and working against measures like the Employee Free Choice Act that would help hard-working taxpayers gain a voice to help restore the middle class. Read more...

Buyout debt threatens another financial and jobs meltdown

Feb 03, 2009 - As the Private Equity Super Returns conference got underway in Berlin, Philip Jennings, general secretary of UNI Global Union, Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Jack Dromey, deputy general secretary of UNITE, and John Evans, general secretary of Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD, gathered to demand immediate reforms to private equity in order to help avoid further economic crisis. The labour leaders warn that economic disparity and unfettered corporate greed have proven toxic for the economy and must be reformed. Government leaders must take action. Read more...

SEIU Launches Nevada TV Ad In Support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Strong Leadership for Working Families

Jan 30, 2009 - SEIU announced today that it has begun a new, aggressive television ad campaign in support of Senator Harry Reid's work on behalf of Nevada's working families. Read more...

SEIU Statement on President Obama's Executive Orders For Working America

Jan 30, 2009 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released the following statement today regarding President Obama's White House ceremony to sign four worker-related executive orders into law, including the creation of the Middle Class Working Families Task Force led by Vice-president Joe Biden. Read more...

On Heels of Senate SCHIP Vote, SEIU Calls On Congress to Keep Rebuilding the American Dream

Jan 29, 2009 - Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream," said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger as Senators from both parties worked together to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). "We applaud the Senate for strengthening the children's health insurance program and ensuring no child must wait for care." Read more...

Labor, Progressive Groups Hold Press Conference Call to React to House Vote on Obama Economic Recovery Package and Announce Plans for Senate Vote

Jan 29, 2009 - TODAY, at 2:15PM EST, the Center for American Progress Action Fund will host a conference call with Anna Burger, International Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU, Jim Gerstein, Executive Director, Democracy Corps, Eli Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn.org, James Kvaal, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Brad Woodhouse, President of Americans United for Change and Alan Charney, USAction... Read more...

House Republicans' Vote on Economic Recovery Package: "Completely Out of Touch with Working People in America"

Jan 28, 2009 - The only solution House Republicans offer to our economic crisis is tax cuts, but tax cuts only work for people who are working. People who have lost their jobs and watched their futures go up in smoke don't want more hot air ... they want action and got it today from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Read more...

Statement by UHW Trustee Eliseo Medina on the Trusteeship of Local UHW-W

Jan 28, 2009 - "If you push aside the smoke screen that UHW officers created, the core issue and root cause of their repeated misconduct--as found by Secretary Marshall--has always been their disagreement over the creation of a single long term health care local in California." Read the rest of Eliseo Medina's statement regarding the UHW-W trusteeship here. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for Jan. 29: Health Groups will Rally Hundreds to Restore Patient Services at Boston Medical Center, Cambridge Health Alliance

Jan 28, 2009 - On Thursday, January 29 at 4:00 p.m., a broad and rapidly growing coalition of health groups known as the Put Patients First coalition will rally hundreds of patients, caregivers, and advocates outside the Massachusetts State House. Read more...

Statement of SEIU President Andy Stern Regarding Growth in Union Membership in 2008

Jan 28, 2009 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics annual union membership report shows that the share of workers belonging to a union rose in 2008. Growth in SEIU--88,926 members--accounted for nearly 21 percent of the national growth. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY: SEIU President Andy Stern to Challenge Corporate Leaders, Stand for Working People at World Economic Forum in Davos

Jan 28, 2009 - In the midst of the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression and as standards of living continue to fall for millions of workers across the globe, SEIU President Andy Stern will join over 40 Heads of State and 1,600 of the world's most powerful CEOs at the Davos World Economic Forum today to call for a renewed commitment to corporate responsibility, transparency, and accountability. Read more...

Statement of Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union, on the Trusteeship of United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW)

Jan 27, 2009 - "Today we bring an end to a sad chapter in the life of a local union with great members, whose leadership lost their way, engaged in serious financial wrongdoing, refused to end their attempts to subvert the democratic processes of this union and failed to take action against reported decertification efforts. This trusteeship is grounded in the clear facts found in Secretary Marshall's report and the direct actions of Sal Rosselli and the leaders of UHW. Read more...

SEIU Calls on Bank of America to Oust CEO

Jan 27, 2009 - SEIU calls on the board of Bank of America (BofA) to oust CEO Ken Lewis in light of recent reports in the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal that Lewis's Bank of America approved of the decision to pay $4 billion in bonuses to Merrill Lynch executives after accepting $25 billion in taxpayer-financed bailout money. Lewis's Bank of America sanctioned the December bonuses even though Merrill Lynch's growing losses threatened BofA's takeover of the firm. Read more...

IEB Unanimously Adopts Secretary Marshall's Report; UHW Given 5 Days to Comply with Union's Democratic Process and Decisions

Jan 22, 2009 - In his Report and Recommendations issued last night to the International President on the trusteeship matter involving United Healthcare Workers - West ("UHW" or "UHW-W"), former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, the outside hearing officer, found that "Leaders of the UHW did engage in financial malpractice and undermined democratic procedures..." and there are grounds for trusteeship. Read more...

Former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall finds that "Leaders of the UHW Did Engage in Financial Malpractice and Undermined Democratic Procedures"

Jan 22, 2009 - In his Report and Recommendation issued last night to the International President on the trusteeship matter involving United Healthcare Workers - West ("UHW" or "UHW-W"), former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, the hearing officer in the trusteeship matter, made the following findings... Read more...

"Yes, Workers Can"

Jan 19, 2009 - Statement by SEIU President Andy Stern on Inauguration of President Barack Obama: "Words seem inadequate when I try to capture what the inauguration of Barack Obama means to working people..." Read more here. Read more...

Anna Burger Statement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Jan 19, 2009 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: "Today we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and honor the timeless values he has taught us all - courage, compassion, fairness and community service." Read more...

Security Officers Seeking to Form Union With SEIU Score Major Victory Over Irresponsible Contractor

Jan 16, 2009 - Security officers responsible for protecting patients and staff at Kaiser Permanente medical facilities nationwide won a major victory over an irresponsible security contractor after a three-year struggle where officers seeking to join SEIU faced threats, intimidation and termination for union support. Kaiser Permanente replaced the irresponsible contractor, Inter-Con, with a new contractor called Securitas, a company that is union in many industries and client sectors throughout California. Read more...

Huge Effort Calls for Bank of America to Use Bailout Money Right or Give it Back

Jan 15, 2009 - SEIU joined workers and consumers at Bank of America locations around the nation today to call for the Bank to use taxpayer funds to help our economic recovery--or give the money back. Read more...

On Heels of Strong Bipartisan House Vote, SEIU Urges Senate to Vote Yes for Children's Health and Pass SCHIP

Jan 14, 2009 - "There is no time to waste. Strengthening the children's health insurance program offers a lifeline to families struggling to survive during this unprecedented economic downturn," said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger as Democrats and Republicans came together in the U.S. House of Representatives to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Read more...

Divided We Fail Launches Next Phase of National Campaign to Fix America's Health and Economic Crises

Jan 13, 2009 - Today leaders of the country's top consumer, business and labor groups launched the next phase of Divided We Fail, a national movement to bring health and financial security to every American. Read more...

California SEIU Members to Form Nation's Largest Long Term Care Union

Jan 09, 2009 - The International Executive Board of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today voted overwhelmingly to adopt the recommendations of an outside hearing officer, based on a policy first established at the 2000 SEIU Convention eight years ago, to have home care and nursing home workers in three SEIU local unions in California unite into a single local union to create the nation's largest and most powerful organization of long term care workers - 240,000 strong. Read more...

Hilda Solis Will Stand for Justice, Open Doors for Millions of Workers in America

Jan 09, 2009 - "At this critical juncture in our great nation, I cannot think of anyone more qualified than Representative Hilda Solis to re-establish the U.S. Labor Department's priorities of justice, fairness, and equal opportunity for all workers," said SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina today, in his statement of support for Representative Hilda Solis's confirmation as U.S. Secretary of Labor: Read more...

Declaración de Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de SEIU Eliseo Medina: Hilda Solís Defenderá La Justicia, Abririrá Puertas a Millones de Trabajadores en Estados Unidos

Jan 09, 2009 - El vicepresidente ejecutivo de SEIU Eliseo Medina emitió la siguiente declaración en apoyo de la confirmación de la representante Californiana Hilda Solís como secretaria del Departamento del Trabajo. Read more...

SEIU President Andy Stern Statement Supporting the Confirmation of Representative Hilda Solis as U.S. Secretary of Labor

Jan 09, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued a statement today supporting the conformation of Representative Hilda Solis as U.S. Secretary of Labor, saying "Her confirmation will give working families confidence that we can rebuild our country so hard work is rewarded with fair pay, strong benefits and a secure retirement." Read more...

SEIU President Andy Stern Statement on President-Elect Obama's Economic Speech

Jan 08, 2009 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement following President-elect Obama's speech on the economy at George Mason University. Read more...

Six Diverse Groups Unite in Nationwide Call for Health Care Reform as Key to Economic Reform

Jan 08, 2009 - Six organizations representing consumers, physicians, insurers, patients and pharmaceutical research companies are banding together to launch a new multi-million dollar national television advertising buy. Read more...

SEIU Unveils Major National Campaign to Bring Economic Solutions to Main Street

Jan 07, 2009 - As Congress begins consideration of an economic recovery package supported by President-elect Obama, the two million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is launching a new state-by-state effort to bring economic solutions to Main Street by ensuring passage of the economic recovery package, passing comprehensive healthcare reform and ensuring workers have freedom to choose a voice at work. Read more...

SEIU to Congress: Act Now To Relieve Pressure on Working People

Jan 06, 2009 - Thousands of members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) this week will make calls, send emails, and set up lobby visits to urge Congress to act as swiftly on real economic recovery for working people in America as they did to bail out Wall Street. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY: SEIU to Unveil Major National Campaign to Bring Economic Solutions to Main Street

Jan 05, 2009 - Against a backdrop of economic crisis and skyrocketing healthcare costs, the two million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will unveil a groundbreaking state-by-state effort to fight for immediate economic relief and recovery efforts, help fix the nation's broken healthcare system and ensure workers have freedom to choose a voice at work on a telephone press conference at 1:30PM eastern on Wednesday, January 7 Read more...

SEIU President Andy Stern Hails Nomination of
Hilda Solis to Lead Department of Labor

Dec 18, 2008 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement in response to reports that President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Representative Hilda Solis as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Read more...

Houston Janitors and Responsible Corporate Leaders Help Address Crisis for Thousands of Low-Wage Workers with Groundbreaking New Health Clinic

Dec 17, 2008 - Houston janitors are joining elected and community leaders today to unveil the "Houston Service Workers Clinic"--a partnership between janitors, responsible corporate leaders and health care providers that offers a groundbreaking model for providing low-cost, quality health care for low-wage workers. Read more...

SEIU Statement on Bush's Proposed H2A Changes That Will Put U.S. Farm Worker Jobs in Jeopardy

Dec 17, 2008 - "The Bush Administration's proposed changes to the H2A guest worker program are the wrong policies at the wrong time by making it easier for big business to exploit some of the lowest-paid workers in the country," said SEIU Executive VP Eliseo Medina in a statement released today. Read more...

SEIU Reaches Agreement with Wackenhut

Dec 16, 2008 - SEIU has reached an agreement with The Wackenhut Corporation, the second-largest security company in the United States and a subsidiary of G4S plc. The agreement brings an end to a long dispute and establishes an agreed upon framework to work together in interest of security officers. Read more...

California SEIU Members Support Single Union Uniting Long Term Care Workers

Dec 12, 2008 - SEIU announced today that its California healthcare members have voted to support the creation of a single local uniting the state's long term care workers. The International Executive Board (IEB), SEIU's highest democratically-elected decision-making body, will weigh the results of the non-binding advisory vote next month as it considers reforms designed to strengthen the representation of California long term care workers. Read more...

SEIU Statement re: Federal Investigation Involving Governor Blagojevich

Dec 09, 2008 - Statement by SEIU Communications Director Ramona Oliver on the federal investigation involving Governor Blagojevich: Read more...

Statement of SEIU President Andy Stern: "Big Three Bailout Should Be Part of Wider Economic Solutions"

Dec 08, 2008 - "Today, amidst global economic insecurity, members of Congress and the White House are debating how and how much taxpayers will come to the aid of America's ailing auto industry." Read the entire statement from SEIU's Andy Stern now. Read more...

Statement by SEIU Healthcare Chair Dennis Rivera Pledging Support for Former Senator Daschle, Obama Transition Team Efforts to Fix Health Care

Dec 05, 2008 - We look forward to doing our part to promote this vital effort across the country. Read the entire statement from SEIU's Dennis Rivera now. Read more...

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm Reaffirms Commitment to Employee Free Choice Act

Dec 04, 2008 - "Yesterday, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm reaffirmed her commitment to protecting workers' free choice for a voice at work by calling for quick passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. Read more...

Tyrone Freeman Permanently Banned from Holding SEIU Membership or Office

Nov 26, 2008 - Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern today permanently banned Local 6434 President Tyrone Freeman from holding membership, a staff position or office in the Union following evidence that the Los Angeles leader misused member funds. Read more...

Wal-Mart Watch to Join Efforts to Give Workers a Voice on the Job

Nov 19, 2008 - Wal-Mart Watch, a leading critic of the nation's largest employer and architect of an independent public education campaign to expose the truth about Wal-Mart's business practices, announced today that it is merging its operations into the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to join the effort 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. Read more...

SEIU's Andy Stern Renews Call to Fix Nation's Broken Health Care System, Ease Financial Strain on Working Families, Economy

Nov 19, 2008 - Pointing to the combined impact of the health care and economic crises on the lives of working families nationwide, SEIU International President Andy Stern called on President-Elect Barack Obama and key leaders in Washington today to work together to address the nation's ailing health care system in the short-term. Read more...

Testimony of Andy Stern Before the Senate Finance Committee Hearing

Nov 19, 2008 - Mr. Chairman, Senator Grassley, and Members of the Committee, on behalf of SEIU's 2 million members--including more than 1 million workers who went to work today in hospitals, nursing homes, and people's homes--thank you for inviting me to testify this morning. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Mark Begich on His Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 19, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, this morning extend their congratulations to Mark Begich on his election to the U.S. Senate. SEIU made 68,279 calls in support of Begich and look forward to working with him in the 111th Congress. Read more...

SEIU President to Testify at Senate Hearing on Health Care Reform, Highlight Dual Impact of Health Care and Economic Crises on Working Families

Nov 18, 2008 - With pressure building to address the nation's ailing health care system, SEIU International President Andy Stern will offer testimony on the combined impact of the health care and economic crisis on working families and call for comprehensive health care reform at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance at 10AM Wednesday, November 19. Read more...

SEIU Statement in Support of New Blueprint to Solve Health Care Crisis by Senator Max Baucus

Nov 12, 2008 - SEIU, the nation's largest labor union for health care workers, issued the following statement in support of the diagnosis of and prescription for mending our broken health care system released by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) today. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Jeff Merkley on His Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 06, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Jeff Merkley on his election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Gary Peters on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Gary Peters for his election to the U.S. House from Michigan's 9th Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Steve Driehaus on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Steve Driehaus for his election to the U.S. House from Ohio's 1st Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Betsy Markey on Her Election to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Betsy Markey for her election to the U.S. House from Colorado's 4th Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Mark Schauer on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Mark Schauer for his election to the U.S. House from Michigan's 7th Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Glenn Nye on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Glenn Nye for his election to the U.S. House from Virginia's 2nd Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Travis Childers on His Reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Travis Childers for his reelection to the U.S. House from Mississippi's 1st Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Christine Gregoire on Her Re-Election as Governor of Washington

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Governor Christine Gregoire on her re-election as Governor of state of Washington. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Jim Himes on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Jim Himes for his election to the U.S. House from Connecticut's 4th Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Joe Courtney on His Reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Joe Courtney for his reelection to the U.S. House from Connecticut's 2nd Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Max Baucus on His Re-Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Max Baucus on his re-election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Donna Edwards on Her Reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 05, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Donna Edwards for her reelection to the U.S. House from Maryland's 4th Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Gerry Connelly on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Gerry Connelly for his election to the U.S. House from Virginia's 11th Congressional District. Read more...

Latinos Make Election History, Deliver Victory For Obama From CO to FL

Nov 04, 2008 - Today in battleground states from Colorado to Florida to Virginia, a record number of Latino voters made history, voting overwhelmingly to put President-Elect Barack Obama in the White House. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Andre Carson on His Reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Andre Carson for his reelection to the U.S. House from Indiana's 7th Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Tom Harkin on His Re-Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Senator Tom Harkin on his re-election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Mark Udall on His Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Mark Udall on his election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Nikki Tsongas on Her Reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Nikki Tsongas for her reelection to the U.S. House from Massachusetts's 5th Congressional District. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Bill Foster on His Reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Bill Foster for his reelection to the U.S. House from Illinois 14th Congressional District. Read more...

Statement of SEIU President Andy Stern on the Victories of President-Elect Obama and Other Pro-Working Family Candidates in Today's Election

Nov 04, 2008 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern issued the following statement tonight upon the confirmed victory of the Obama-Biden ticket and pro-worker candidates across the country: Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Mike Enzi on His Re-Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Senator Mike Enzi on his re-election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Tim Johnson on His Re-Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Senator Tim Johnson on his re-election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Jack Reed on His Re-Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Senator Jack Reed on his re-election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Carl Levin on His Re-Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Senator Carl Levin on his re-election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Tom Udall on His Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Tom Udall on his election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Jay Nixon on His Election as Governor of Missouri

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Jay Nixon on his election as Governor for the state of Missouri. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Kay Hagan on Her Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Kay Hagan on her election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to John Lynch on His Re-Election as Governor of New Hampshire

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Governor John Lynch on his re-election as Governor of New Hampshire. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate Jeanne Shaheen on Her Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Jeanne Shaheen on her election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Congratulate John Rockefeller on His Re-Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Senator John Rockefeller on his re-election to the U.S. Senate. Read more...

SEIU Members Extend Congratulations to Mark Warner on His Election to the U.S. Senate

Nov 04, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Mark Warner on his election to the U.S. Senate from Virginia. 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...

Today We Must Be the Change We Need

Nov 04, 2008 - All over this great country, men and woman who each day struggle to make ends meet and take care of their families will get up today, go to the polls and take a huge step toward ensuring a better life for their families. Read more...

SEIU Leaders Barnstorm Battleground States for Obama, Senate Candidates

Oct 31, 2008 - SEIU President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will hit the campaign trail this weekend in a final push to win key battleground states for Barack Obama and Senate races for pro-working family candidates Al Franken in Minnesota and Jeff Merkley in Oregon. Read more...

In Final 72-Hour Push, SEIU Members Get Out The Vote for Barack Obama and Other Working Family Candidates Across the Country

Oct 31, 2008 - In the final 72-hours of this campaign, more than 100,000 nurses, janitors and other volunteers across the country are joining 4,000 SEIU members, local and International staff who've taken extended time off the job to bring home victory for Barack Obama, Joe Biden and other candidates promising the change working families need. Read more...

SEIU Members Launch New Ohio Ad on John McCain's Votes to Send Jobs Overseas

Oct 30, 2008 - Today, SEIU began airing a new $425,000 television ad, titled "Meghan," that will run on cable and broadcast TV across Ohio through the end of the election. Read more...

Obama Puts Healthcare, Economic Relief for Middle Class First in Prime-Time Special

Oct 29, 2008 - There's a lot at stake this election--the American Dream hangs in the balance. That's why nurses, janitors, child care providers, and other SEIU members continue to mobilize their co-workers and communities to elect a president who will finally win healthcare for all and rebuild the middle class. Read more...

SFO Workers Vote to Authorize Strike

Oct 28, 2008 - Airline service workers at San Francisco International Airport voted overwhelmingly yesterday to authorize a strike at one of the busiest airports in the country. Read more...

Anna Burger to Join Governors Sebelius and Napolitano at Obama Town Hall Meetings in Indiana Monday

Oct 27, 2008 - On Monday, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will moderate town hall meetings with Governors Kathy Sebelius of Kansas and Janet Napolitano of Arizona in West Lafayette, Indianapolis, and Terre Haute, Indiana for Barack Obama. Read more...

SEIU's Massive Ground Campaign for Obama, Pro-Working Family Candidates

Oct 27, 2008 - I wanted to quickly share something from this morning's USA Today piece "Groups spend millions bypassing TV, radio" by Matt Kelley: Read more...

Victory for Residents of Lake County, Indiana

Oct 22, 2008 - After weeks of court battles, Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Kavadias Schneider concluded that early voting in Gary, Hammond, and East Chicago will go on without interference - a complete victory for the thousands of residents facing challenges getting to the polls on Election Day. Read more...

SEIU Members Launch New TV Ad on Gordon Smith's Role in Digging Our Economic Hole

Oct 22, 2008 - Today, SEIU announced a new television ad, titled "Hole," that will air on cable and broadcast across most of Oregon through the end of October. Read more...

California SEIU Members Head to Nevada to Mobilize Voters for Obama

Oct 22, 2008 - This weekend, with only 11 days remaining before voters head to the polls, hundreds of SEIU members from across California will put down their brooms, badges, briefcases, and blood pressure cuffs and pick up clipboards and walk lists as they head to Nevada to mobilize voters for Barack Obama. Read more...

SEIU Members Launch New TV Ad On Sununu's Support For Bush's Economic Policies

Oct 22, 2008 - Today, SEIU announced a new television ad, titled "Register," that will air statewide on cable and broadcast throughout New Hampshire. The ad highlights John Sununu's record of support for George W. Bush's economic policies that helped to create America's current economic crisis. Read more...

SEIU President Andy Stern to Join Senator Biden On Colorado Bus Tour

Oct 21, 2008 - Today, SEIU President Andy Stern will join Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden on a bus tour in Colorado with stops in Greeley and Commerce City. Read more...

High-Profile TV, Film & Recording Stars Join Members of the Nation's Fastest Growing Labor Union for Door-Knocking, Campaign Calls, and other GOTV Activities in Battleground States

Oct 16, 2008 - This week, more than a dozen celebrities have volunteered to participate in GOTV efforts to help give voice to working families' concerns with the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), the nation's fastest growing union in the country. Read more...

SEIU: John McCain v. George W. Bush

Oct 16, 2008 - Working families who have suffered through eight years of Bush's failed policies - hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, tax cuts for the richest Americans, stagnant wages, record food and gas prices, retirement accounts losing trillions of dollars - face more of the same from a McCain Administration, asserts a new online ad by SEIU. Read more...

Working Families Want to Hear Real Solutions, Not Attacks from McCain

Oct 15, 2008 - At tonight's debate, SEIU members say that John McCain needs to stop the attacks and finally address the need for affordable healthcare for all and an economy that puts working people first. Read more...

Thousands of Indiana Voters Regain Right to Vote Early

Oct 15, 2008 - Today, after more than a week of legal struggle between an SEIU-backed coalition of labor and civil rights groups and the Indiana GOP, hundreds of Indiana voters began casting early voting ballots in East Chicago, Gary and Hammond, Indiana. Read more...

Service Worker Unions Call for Stronger "Nutrition Safety Net" for America's Children

Oct 15, 2008 - As the historic economic crisis forces more American families to rely on school-based food programs, SEIU and UNITE-HERE, which together represent more than 250,000 workers in early care and education settings nationwide, are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Congress today to strengthen the nutrition safety net for our nation's children. Read more...

SEIU Members Stepping Up Their Efforts for Obama-Biden Ticket

Oct 15, 2008 - With just three weeks to go until Election Day, SEIU members across the country are stepping up their efforts to elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden so they can bring about the change working families need. Read more...

SEIU Leaders Andy Stern and Anna Burger to Attend Tonight's Final Presidential Debate

Oct 15, 2008 - Tonight, SEIU President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will attend the final presidential debate and will be available to speak to the media about the issues at stake this election for working people and SEIU's efforts to elect Barack Obama and a pro-working family majority in Congress. Read more...

SEIU Names Commission on Ethics and Standards

Oct 09, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today named the members of the SEIU Commission on Standards and Ethics, which was announced last month. Read more...

SEIU Members Available to Talk About the Issues at Stake this Election

Oct 08, 2008 - At last night's town hall debate we heard directly from the American people--families are struggling and they want solutions to fix the economy and bring down healthcare costs. Read more...

SEIU DVD Exposes How McCain "Care" Leaves Seniors Behind

Oct 08, 2008 - More than 250,000 copies of the DVD "The Facts about John McCain's Health Care Plan" have been put in the hands of the nation's seniors in recent weeks, courtesy of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Read more...

SEIU Nursing Assistant Will Be In Town Hall Audience, Ready To Ask John McCain Why He Won't Provide Affordable Healthcare For All

Oct 07, 2008 - As the presidential candidates come on stage tonight for the second presidential debate, Jean Berg, a nursing assistant and member of SEIU Healthcare Florida, will be in the audience, waiting to ask John McCain why he wants to tax healthcare benefits and make it harder for families to afford coverage. Read more...

SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina to Attend Tonight's Presidential Debate in Tennessee

Oct 07, 2008 - Tonight, Eliseo Medina, Executive Vice President of the 2 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), will represent the voices of working men and women across the country while attending the Presidential Town Hall Debate in Nashville, Tennessee. Read more...

SEIU Stands with Hoosiers to Ensure Voting Rights, Prevent Disenfranchisement in Indiana

Oct 06, 2008 - Voters in Indiana earned a victory in their efforts to enjoy equal access to early voting sites today as Judge Lorenzo Arredando of the Lake County Circuit Court blocked Republicans' attempt to bar Gary, East Chicago and Hammond from hosting their own early voting sites--while early voting has already begun in Crown Point. Read more...

States Risk Repeat of Wall Street Bailout with Private Equity Infrastructure Deals

Oct 06, 2008 - Increasing investment in infrastructure projects is critical to America's economic recovery, but states that partner with private equity firms on deals risk a repeat of the Wall Street bailout, according to a draft of a policy discussion paper authored by one of the nation's largest labor unions. Read more...

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...

SEIU Ohio Members Launch Massive Early Vote Blitz Across State

Oct 03, 2008 - Tomorrow, SEIU members across Ohio will unite with members in other Change to Win and AFL-CIO unions to launch a major early vote effort across the state. Hundreds of workers in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and other cities will attend rallies, vote early, and go door-to-door to get union members to participate in Ohio's first early vote election. Read more...

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger To Brief Reporters On New Television, Field Campaign

Oct 03, 2008 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger and National Political Director Jon Youngdahl will hold a conference call with reporters this Monday to announce a new, multi-state television and field campaign aimed at targeting undecided voters in the final weeks of the presidential election Read more...

SEIU Members Say Voters Fearful About An Economy That Keeps Getting Worse

Oct 03, 2008 - As today's latest jobs report showing nine straight months of job loss hits the headlines, SEIU members knocking on doors and making calls across the country report growing frustration and fear from voters about an economy that shows no signs of improving. Read more...

Wash U. Worker Tells Candidates What Her Family Needs to Hear Tonight

Oct 02, 2008 - As the candidates prepared for tonight's Vice-Presidential debate, hundreds of workers at Washington University were preparing the campus, setting up the stage, and after the candidates and crowd go home, standing by to clean it all up. Pat Waters is one of those workers. Read more...

Trusteeship Hearing Set to Begin in Matter Involving United Long-Term Care Workers Local 6434

Oct 02, 2008 - With former California Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grodin presiding as outside hearing officer, a hearing will open today in the matter involving the trusteeship of Los Angeles-based Local 6434. Read more...

SEIU Members Pound the Pavement For Votes, Have Registered Over 70,000 New Voters

Oct 02, 2008 - With voter registration deadlines approaching in many states, SEIU members are pounding the pavement, working the phones, and pulling out all the stops to help register tens of thousands of new voters - and make sure they get out to vote on November 4th for Barack Obama and a pro-working family Congress. Read more...

Statement of SEIU President Andy Stern RE: Expected Senate Approval of Wall Street Bailout

Oct 01, 2008 - With the U.S. Senate poised to approve a bailout plan for Wall Street tonight, Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), expressed disappointment that Congress appeared ready to pass up an opportunity to address the economic concerns facing millions of American families Read more...

New Report Shows McCain Plan Would Take Away Health Benefits of 415,000 In Wisconsin

Oct 01, 2008 - A new report released today by the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) shows that Senator John McCain's proposed health care plan would threaten the employer-based health benefits of 3.3 million people in Wisconsin and that as many as 415,000 people in the state could lose their health coverage. Read more...

Congresswoman Drake's Record of Voting Against Healthcare

Oct 01, 2008 - Today, Virginia Congresswoman Thelma Drake held a press conference accusing SEIU of distorting the facts about her record in a recently released television ad. Read more...

Anna Burger Tells Governor Palin to Stand Behind Her Words and Support Affordable Healthcare For All

Oct 01, 2008 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger responds to Governor Palin's comments on conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt's show crediting "good union jobs" for her healthcare and saying her own family had to choose between "paying out of pocket for catastrophic coverage or just crossing our fingers, hoping that nobody would get hurt, nobody would get sick." Read more...

HHS Report Details Nursing Home Violations; Nation's Largest Health Care Union Responds

Oct 01, 2008 - A report released Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finds that 94% of America's for-profit nursing homes have been cited for violating patient care standards. Read more...

"Dear Sarah..."

Oct 01, 2008 - My name is Marshall Clemons and I'm a school custodian in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I've been a custodian for 16 years and I'm proud of the work that I do to ensure that our students have a clean and safe place to learn. Read more...

Afiliados de SEIU recorren calles por votos, habiendo registrado a más de 70.000 nuevos votantes

Oct 01, 2008 - Conforme vencen plazos de registro de votantes en muchos estados, los afiliados de SEIU recorren diligentemente las calles, hacen llamadas telefónicas y usan todos sus recursos para ayudar a registrar a decenas de miles de nuevos votantes, y asegurarse de que la gente se movilice el 4 de noviembre para votar por Barack Obama y un congreso favorable a las familias trabajadoras. Read more...

New State-by-State Analyses: McCain Health Care Plan Would Hit Tens of Millions with Tax Increase, Force Others into Ranks of Uninsured

Sep 30, 2008 - A new series of state-level reports show presidential candidate John McCain's proposed health care plan would significantly raise taxes on tens of millions of working families while forcing millions of others to lose their employer-based health coverage. Read more...

SEIU Endorses DeFazio Bill to Address Financial Crisis

Sep 30, 2008 - The two million-member SEIU (Service Employees International Union) is backing the plan announced today by Rep. Peter DeFazio and other Members of Congress to restore confidence in the financial markets. 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...

Stand Up for Main Street, SEIU Tells Senators

Sep 29, 2008 - With Congress continuing to debate a bailout of Wall Street banks, Senators will hear from voters this week calling for action on the economic priorities of Main Street. The two million-member SEIU (Service Employees International Union) announced today it will make 150,000 calls this week to Senators running for reelection, criticizing them for failing to take action on a broader stimulus package to ease the economic pain of working families. Read more...

SEIU Launches Website Redesign

Sep 29, 2008 - Today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) re-launched its website, seiu.org, which now features fresh, daily content covering the broad spectrum of SEIU's political action, campaigns and local union activities. Read more...

Hearing Officer Secretary Ray Marshall To Set Additional Date(s) for United Healthcare Workers-West Trusteeship Hearing

Sep 28, 2008 - SAN MATEO, CA -- In order to ensure a full and fair process, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, the outside hearing officer in the proposed trusteeship of United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W), today announced that he will be issuing a notice of additional hearing date(s) in this matter since parties were unable to conclude their presentations over the original hearing period. Read more...

Virginia Senate Candidate Mark Warner "Walks A Day in the Shoes" of SEIU Personal Care Assistant

Sep 26, 2008 - As part of SEIU's program to ensure that candidates running for political office know what life is like for working people, today Virginia Senate candidate and former Governor Mark Warner walked a day in the shoes of SEIU personal care assistant (PCA) Shareen Miller. Read more...

SEIU Members Offer John McCain 656 Billion Reasons To Participate in Tonight's Debate

Sep 26, 2008 - John McCain has yet to decide whether he will join Barack Obama at the first presidential debate tonight in Oxford, Mississippi. Read more...

SEIU Proposes Multibillion Cash Investment to Revive Economy, Launch New Era of Hope for Working Families

Sep 25, 2008 - With Washington moving toward a bailout of Wall Street banks, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) called for action on legislation that will launch a new era of prosperity and address the real economic concerns of America's working families. Read more...

SEIU Nurse Connie Gallagher Asks Senator McCain When Will He Bring Troops Home in "Dear John" Letter

Sep 25, 2008 - Today, Iowa nurse and SEIU member Connie Gallagher sent a "Dear John" letter to Senator John McCain, asking him to give a clear answer at Friday's scheduled presidential debate regarding what victory in Iraq means to him, and when he will bring our troops home. Read more...

Nurses, Healthcare Workers Launch Massive Drive to Inform 1 Million Caregivers in Key States on Obama and McCain Healthcare Plans

Sep 24, 2008 - With women voters poised to play a pivotal role in the presidential election, a unique project of SEIU Healthcare will reach at least 1 million healthcare employees--a largely female workforce --through worker-to-worker communication on the candidates' views on healthcare issues. Read more...

Three SEIU Members Making the Difference for Obama

Sep 24, 2008 - Samara is a nursing assistant and single mother raising a son with a severe illness that requires expensive medication and constant doctor visits. But Samara doesn't have healthcare at work and she can't afford expensive coverage on her own. Read more...

Activists, Fired Worker Protest Poor Resident Care and Working Conditions at Atria Senior Living During Annual Senior Housing Conference (version 2)

Sep 23, 2008 - Activists protested poor resident care and working conditions at Atria Senior Living during the 18th Annual Conference of the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry (NIC) on Thurs., Sept. 11 at the swank Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers. Former Atria worker Jojo Adeyemi also attempted to meet with Atria CEO John Moore to voice his concerns directly to the man at the top. Read more...

Statement By SEIU International President Andy Stern On Dual Impact of the Banking and Health Care Crisis on Working Families

Sep 23, 2008 - SEIU International President Andy Stern issued the following statement today regarding the combined impact of the banking crisis and rising health care costs on the nation's working families: Read more...

SEIU's Andy Stern: Fed Changes to Rules Restricting Private Equity Stake in Banks 'Wrong Move at Wrong Time for Our Economy'

Sep 23, 2008 - Andy Stern, International President of the 2-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU)--the fastest-growing labor union in the Americas--issued the following statement today regarding rule changes by the Federal Reserve that make it easier for private equity firms to invest in the nation's retail banks: Read more...

SEIU To Host Screening of Brave New Films' "Diagnosis: Now!" At Washington HQ, 40+ House Parties Nationwide

Sep 23, 2008 - On Wednesday, September 24, SEIU will host a screening of Brave New Films' documentary titled "Diagnosis: Now!" at the health care union's headquarters in Washington, D.C., kicking off a series of screenings at house parties being hosted by SEIU locals across the country. Read more...

SEIU Personal Care Assistant to Introduce Senator Biden at Virginia Event Today

Sep 23, 2008 - Kathy Cohenour, a personal care assistant and member of SEIU Local 5/Virginia Association of Personal Care Assistants will introduce Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden at a community gathering in Northern Virginia this morning. Read more...

Hearing Officer Secretary Ray Marshall Sets Process for United Healthcare Workers-West Trusteeship Hearing

Sep 23, 2008 - Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, the outside hearing officer for the trusteeship hearing for United Healthcare Workers West (UHW-W), last night set a multi-week schedule for rendering his report on the proposed trusteeship of UHW-W. The hearing is slated for September 26 and 27. Read more...

John McCain's Health Care Plan Based On Same Policies That Are Causing Wall Street Meltdown

Sep 22, 2008 - Every day, another financial institution shutters its doors. Over 600,000 thousand U.S. jobs have been lost so far this year. Gas, food, and health care prices are through the roof. The writing is on the wall: the American economy is teetering on the edge of collapse, and American families are paying the price. Read more...

John McCain's Health Care Plan Based on Same Policies That Are Causing Wall Street Meltdown

Sep 22, 2008 - Every day, another financial institution shutters its doors. Over 600,000 thousand U.S. jobs have been lost so far this year. Gas, food, and health care prices are through the roof. The writing is on the wall: the American economy is teetering on the edge of collapse, and American families are paying the price. Read more...

Michelle Obama Rallies SEIU Staff Heading to Battleground States

Sep 20, 2008 - Michelle Obama addressed SEIU staff by telephone yesterday, as they prepared to head to Ohio, Colorado, Michigan, and other battleground states to make the difference for Obama. Read more...

Statement by SEIU International President Andy Stern on Dual Impact of the Banking and Health Care Crises on Working Families

Sep 19, 2008 - SEIU International President Andy Stern issued the following statement today regarding the combined impact of the banking crisis and rising health care costs on the nation's working families: Read more...

Three SEIU Members Making the Difference for Obama

Sep 18, 2008 - More than 1,000 SEIU members have taken time off their jobs and 100,000 nurses, janitors, child care providers, and other workers will be volunteering after work and on weekends to win on November 4th. Read more...

SEIU Trustee Files Charges Against Local 6434 President

Sep 17, 2008 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today announced formal charges against Tyrone Freeman, president of United Long-term Care Workers Local 6434 based in Los Angeles, California. In a letter to the International leadership, Trustee John Ronches charged Freeman with engaging in self-dealing and financial malpractice in violation of SEIU's Constitution and Local bylaws. Read more...

SEIU Not Surprised That McCain Thinks Economy Is Strong

Sep 15, 2008 - Today's events on Wall Street will have an impact on this year's presidential election. Unfortunately for John McCain, the research shows that he has not only shown poor judgment on important economic issues, but that he sides with corporate interests over working families on every issue from health care to tax cuts to America's energy crisis to protecting workers' retirement. Read more...

SEIU Launches Multimillion Dollar TV Ad Campaign

Sep 14, 2008 - SEIU announced today that it has begun a new, aggressive television ad campaign that drives home what is at stake economically for millions of American families in the upcoming presidential election. Read more...

Activists, Fired Worker Protest Poor Resident Care and Working Conditions at Atria Senior Living During Annual Senior Housing Conference (version 1)

Sep 11, 2008 - Activists protested poor resident care and working conditions at Atria Senior Living during the 18th Annual Conference of the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry (NIC) on Thurs., Sept. 11 at the swank Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers. Read more...

Nation's Largest Union Calls on Pension Boards to Stop Risking Retiree Pension Money, Launch Effort at Wisconsin Pension Board Meeting

Sep 10, 2008 - Activists picketed outside a State of Wisconsin Board of Investment (SWIB), calling on the board to stop risking state workers' pension fund money during the fund's monthly meeting here Wednesday, Sept. 10. Read more...

Janitors Strike Against Cleaning Contractor to Defend Civil Rights at Two General Growth Properties Malls

Sep 09, 2008 - Low-wage mall janitors at Park Meadows Mall in Littleton, Colorado, and Southland Mall in Hayward, California, are walking off the job today to protest unfair labor practices committed by the Millard Group, which cleans malls owned by General Growth Properties, the nation's second largest mall owner. Read more...

SEIU Denounces Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech

Sep 09, 2008 - Today the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), America's Voice, Center for New Community, and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) launched a print ad denouncing known hate group, FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform), for poisoning the immigration debate with bigoted, xenophobic hate speech. Read more...

SEIU Denounces Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech

Sep 09, 2008 - Today the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), America's Voice, Center for New Community, and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) launched a print ad denouncing known hate group, FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform), for poisoning the immigration debate with bigoted, xenophobic hate speech. Read more...

SEIU Denounces Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech

Sep 09, 2008 - Today the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), America's Voice, Center for New Community, and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) launched a print ad denouncing known hate group, FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform), for poisoning the immigration debate with bigoted, xenophobic hate speech. Read more...

SEIU Denounces Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech

Sep 09, 2008 - Today the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), America's Voice, Center for New Community, and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) launched a print ad denouncing known hate group, FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform), for poisoning the immigration debate with bigoted, xenophobic hate speech. Read more...

Former US Labor Secretary Appointed Hearing Officer In Trusteeship of United Healthcare Workers-West

Sep 08, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today announced the selection of nationally respected labor expert and former US Labor Secretary Ray Marshall to act as outside hearing officer in the International's proposed trusteeship over its Oakland-based local, United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W). Read more...

Former US Labor Secretary Appointed Hearing Officer In Trusteeship of United Healthcare Workers-West

Sep 08, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today announced the selection of nationally respected labor expert and former US Labor Secretary Ray Marshall to act as outside hearing officer in the International's proposed trusteeship over its Oakland-based local, United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W). Read more...

The RNCC By the Numbers

Sep 05, 2008 - The Republican National Convention is over. The confetti has been swept up, the microphones turned off, and those thousands of balloons are on their way to a long, long afterlife in a Minnesota landfill. Read more...

The RNCC By the Numbers

Sep 05, 2008 - The Republican National Convention is over. The confetti has been swept up, the microphones turned off, and those thousands of balloons are on their way to a long, long afterlife in a Minnesota landfill. Read more...

The RNCC By the Numbers

Sep 05, 2008 - The Republican National Convention is over. The confetti has been swept up, the microphones turned off, and those thousands of balloons are on their way to a long, long afterlife in a Minnesota landfill. Read more...

The RNCC By the Numbers

Sep 05, 2008 - The Republican National Convention is over. The confetti has been swept up, the microphones turned off, and those thousands of balloons are on their way to a long, long afterlife in a Minnesota landfill. Read more...

The RNCC By the Numbers

Sep 05, 2008 - The Republican National Convention is over. The confetti has been swept up, the microphones turned off, and those thousands of balloons are on their way to a long, long afterlife in a Minnesota landfill. Read more...

SEIU to Lead Comprehensive Ethics Reform Initiative

Sep 03, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today announced a major new initiative aimed at bolstering the union's ethical guidelines and establishing a 21st Century model of best practices for organized labor. Read more...

SEIU to Lead Comprehensive Ethics Reform Initiative

Sep 03, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today announced a major new initiative aimed at bolstering the union's ethical guidelines and establishing a 21st Century model of best practices for organized labor. Read more...

SEIU to Lead Comprehensive Ethics Reform Initiative

Sep 03, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today announced a major new initiative aimed at bolstering the union's ethical guidelines and establishing a 21st Century model of best practices for organized labor. Read more...

McCain Campaign Manager: "Election Not About Issues"

Sep 02, 2008 - SEIU members responded today to a remark from John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis that the presidential election is not about issues. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza quoted Davis as saying, "This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates. Read more...

McCain Campaign Manager: "Election Not About Issues"

Sep 02, 2008 - SEIU members responded today to a remark from John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis that the presidential election is not about issues. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza quoted Davis as saying, "This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates. Read more...

McCain Campaign Manager: "Election Not About Issues"

Sep 02, 2008 - SEIU members responded today to a remark from John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis that the presidential election is not about issues. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza quoted Davis as saying, "This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates. Read more...

McCain Campaign Manager: "Election Not About Issues"

Sep 02, 2008 - SEIU members responded today to a remark from John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis that the presidential election is not about issues. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza quoted Davis as saying, "This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates. Read more...

Nurse Alliance of SEIU Healthcare Mobilizing RNs and Medical Supplies to Gulf Coast Areas in Advance of Hurricane Gustav

Sep 01, 2008 - SEIU RNs Mobilize for Hurricane Gustav: SEIU Executive Vice President and Nurse Alliance Chair Dian Palmer, RN, issued the following statement regarding the work being done by SEIU nurses and leaders across the country in anticipation of the health impacts of Hurricane Gustav. Read more...

Nurse Alliance of SEIU Healthcare Mobilizing RNs and Medical Supplies to Gulf Coast Areas in Advance of Hurricane Gustav

Sep 01, 2008 - SEIU RNs Mobilize for Hurricane Gustav: SEIU Executive Vice President and Nurse Alliance Chair Dian Palmer, RN, issued the following statement regarding the work being done by SEIU nurses and leaders across the country in anticipation of the health impacts of Hurricane Gustav. Read more...

Artists Line-Up for SEIU's "Take Back Labor Day" Festival to Raise Concerns of Working Men and Women

Aug 29, 2008 - Alternative Rap group The Pharcyde is the latest act to join the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) September 1st Take Back Labor Day Festival at the foot of the Republican National Convention. Read more...

Artists Line-Up for SEIU's "Take Back Labor Day" Festival to Raise Concerns of Working Men and Women

Aug 29, 2008 - Alternative Rap group The Pharcyde is the latest act to join the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) September 1st Take Back Labor Day Festival at the foot of the Republican National Convention. Read more...

Artists Line-Up for SEIU's "Take Back Labor Day" Festival to Raise Concerns of Working Men and Women

Aug 29, 2008 - Alternative Rap group The Pharcyde is the latest act to join the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) September 1st Take Back Labor Day Festival at the foot of the Republican National Convention. Read more...

Barack Obama Acceptance Speech Offers Agenda Putting Working Families First

Aug 28, 2008 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement following Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech in Denver: Read more...

Barack Obama Acceptance Speech Offers Agenda Putting Working Families First

Aug 28, 2008 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement following Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech in Denver: Read more...

Barack Obama Acceptance Speech Offers Agenda Putting Working Families First

Aug 28, 2008 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement following Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech in Denver: Read more...

Barack Obama Acceptance Speech Offers Agenda Putting Working Families First

Aug 28, 2008 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement following Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech in Denver: Read more...

SEIU And Health Care to Play Prominent Role Tonight at Mile High Stadium

Aug 28, 2008 - Tonight, as Barack Obama makes history by accepting the nomination for President of the United States, the urgent need to fix our broken health care system will play a prominent role both inside and outside of Mile High Stadium. Read more...

SEIU And Health Care to Play Prominent Role Tonight at Mile High Stadium

Aug 28, 2008 - Tonight, as Barack Obama makes history by accepting the nomination for President of the United States, the urgent need to fix our broken health care system will play a prominent role both inside and outside of Mile High Stadium. Read more...

SEIU And Health Care to Play Prominent Role Tonight at Mile High Stadium

Aug 28, 2008 - Tonight, as Barack Obama makes history by accepting the nomination for President of the United States, the urgent need to fix our broken health care system will play a prominent role both inside and outside of Mile High Stadium. Read more...

SEIU Member Marshall Clemons to Join Senator Biden and Family to Watch Convention Tonight

Aug 27, 2008 - SEIU member and school custodian Marshall Clemons will join Senator Biden and his family to watch the Democratic Convention tonight. Biden spent a day last year working on the job with Clemons at his Cedar Rapids school before joining Clemons and his family for dinner. Read more...

SEIU Member Marshall Clemons to Join Senator Biden and Family to Watch Convention Tonight

Aug 27, 2008 - SEIU member and school custodian Marshall Clemons will join Senator Biden and his family to watch the Democratic Convention tonight. Biden spent a day last year working on the job with Clemons at his Cedar Rapids school before joining Clemons and his family for dinner. Read more...

SEIU Members Make "Healthcare NOW" Theme of Wednesday At Democratic National Convention

Aug 26, 2008 - SEIU Members are making Wednesday "Healthcare Day" at the Democratic National Convention, helping to host events that highlight the urgent need to build a new, American health care system in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Members Make "Healthcare NOW" Theme of Wednesday At Democratic National Convention

Aug 26, 2008 - SEIU Members are making Wednesday "Healthcare Day" at the Democratic National Convention, helping to host events that highlight the urgent need to build a new, American health care system in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Members Make "Healthcare NOW" Theme of Wednesday At Democratic National Convention

Aug 26, 2008 - SEIU Members are making Wednesday "Healthcare Day" at the Democratic National Convention, helping to host events that highlight the urgent need to build a new, American health care system in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Members Launch "Take Back Labor Day Caravan" in St. Louis

Aug 26, 2008 - On August 29, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will hold a press conference in St. Louis to launch its "Take Back Labor Day" caravan that will tour the Midwest to bring the message that America needs a new vision for the 21st Century that honors hard work, respects the freedom of workers to unite on the job and rebuilds the American Middle Class. Read more...

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger to Address Democratic Convention Tonight

Aug 26, 2008 - Tonight, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will address the nation during the 2008 Democratic National Convention between 6:00 and 7:00 pm MDT. Burger will share with the convention her personal story of how growing up in a union family allowed her the opportunity to go to college and pursue her dreams. Read more...

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger to Address Democratic Convention Tonight

Aug 26, 2008 - Tonight, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will address the nation during the 2008 Democratic National Convention between 6:00 and 7:00 pm MDT. Burger will share with the convention her personal story of how growing up in a union family allowed her the opportunity to go to college and pursue her dreams. Read more...

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger to Address Democratic Convention Tonight

Aug 26, 2008 - Tonight, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will address the nation during the 2008 Democratic National Convention between 6:00 and 7:00 pm MDT. Burger will share with the convention her personal story of how growing up in a union family allowed her the opportunity to go to college and pursue her dreams. Read more...

SEIU Members 'Take Back Labor Day' Caravan To Visit Iowa City and Cedar Rapids En Route to RNC

Aug 26, 2008 - On August 29th and 30th, local members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will join workers from across the country, SEIU International President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger in Iowa at the second stop of the 'Take Back Labor Day' caravan. Read more...

SEIU Members 'Take Back Labor Day' Caravan To Visit Iowa City and Cedar Rapids En Route to RNC

Aug 26, 2008 - On August 29th and 30th, local members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will join workers from across the country, SEIU International President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger in Iowa at the second stop of the 'Take Back Labor Day' caravan. Read more...

SEIU Members 'Take Back Labor Day' Caravan To Visit Iowa City and Cedar Rapids En Route to RNC

Aug 26, 2008 - On August 29th and 30th, local members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will join workers from across the country, SEIU International President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger in Iowa at the second stop of the 'Take Back Labor Day' caravan. Read more...

SEIU Members 'Take Back Labor Day' Caravan To Visit Iowa City and Cedar Rapids En Route to RNC

Aug 26, 2008 - On August 29th and 30th, local members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will join workers from across the country, SEIU International President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger in Iowa at the second stop of the 'Take Back Labor Day' caravan. Read more...

SEIU Member Pauline Beck to Address Convention Tonight

Aug 26, 2008 - Tonight, SEIU homecare worker Pauline Beck will address the Democratic Convention, speaking to delegates about her experience last summer, spending the day with Barack Obama as he "walked a day in her shoes." Read more...

SEIU Member Pauline Beck to Address Convention Tonight

Aug 26, 2008 - Tonight, SEIU homecare worker Pauline Beck will address the Democratic Convention, speaking to delegates about her experience last summer, spending the day with Barack Obama as he "walked a day in her shoes." Read more...

Anna Burger, SEIU Member Pauline Beck to Address Convention Tuesday

Aug 25, 2008 - On Tuesday, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger and homecare worker Pauline Beck will address the Democratic Convention to keep the focus on the issues at stake for working families this election. Burger will talk about Obama's long record of standing with working families and why working people are uniting behind him in 2008 and Beck will discuss the day Barack Obama spent working on the job with her last fall. Read more...

The Road to American Health

Aug 25, 2008 - When the Road to American Health Care pulled into Denver on Saturday for the Democratic National Convention, it began the last leg of a 16-state journey that started four months ago in Cleveland, Ohio. Since hitting the road on April 29, the Road to American Health Care bus has truly been a vehicle for change, giving a voice to the millions of people across the country struggling with health care costs: Read more...

The Road to American Health

Aug 25, 2008 - When the Road to American Health Care pulled into Denver on Saturday for the Democratic National Convention, it began the last leg of a 16-state journey that started four months ago in Cleveland, Ohio. Since hitting the road on April 29, the Road to American Health Care bus has truly been a vehicle for change, giving a voice to the millions of people across the country struggling with health care costs: Read more...

The Road to American Health

Aug 25, 2008 - When the Road to American Health Care pulled into Denver on Saturday for the Democratic National Convention, it began the last leg of a 16-state journey that started four months ago in Cleveland, Ohio. Since hitting the road on April 29, the Road to American Health Care bus has truly been a vehicle for change, giving a voice to the millions of people across the country struggling with health care costs: Read more...

Road to Health Care Bus Tour Rolls Into Denver, Bringing Stories From Across America That Show:

Aug 25, 2008 - Since April, SEIUs Road to American Health Care bus tour has been traveling from coast to coast, stopping in communities large and small to highlight the stories of hard-working Americans who cant afford health coverage. Read more...

Road to Health Care Bus Tour Rolls Into Denver, Bringing Stories From Across America That Show:

Aug 25, 2008 - Since April, SEIUs Road to American Health Care bus tour has been traveling from coast to coast, stopping in communities large and small to highlight the stories of hard-working Americans who cant afford health coverage. Read more...

Road to Health Care Bus Tour Rolls Into Denver, Bringing Stories From Across America That Show:

Aug 25, 2008 - Since April, SEIUs Road to American Health Care bus tour has been traveling from coast to coast, stopping in communities large and small to highlight the stories of hard-working Americans who cant afford health coverage. Read more...

Road to Health Care Bus Tour Rolls Into Denver, Bringing Stories From Across America That Show:

Aug 25, 2008 - Since April, SEIUs Road to American Health Care bus tour has been traveling from coast to coast, stopping in communities large and small to highlight the stories of hard-working Americans who cant afford health coverage. Read more...

SEIU Local 1 President Tom Balanoff to Address Democratic Convention Tonight

Aug 25, 2008 - Tonight, Tom Balanoff, President of SEIU Local 1, will address the nation during the 2008 Democratic National Convention between 7:00 and 8:00 pm MDT. Local 1, which represents 40,000 janitors, security officers, building service and industrial workers in four states, has a long history working with Barack Obama, going back to his days as a community organizer on Chicagos Southside. Read more...

SEIU Local 1 President Tom Balanoff to Address Democratic Convention Tonight

Aug 25, 2008 - Tonight, Tom Balanoff, President of SEIU Local 1, will address the nation during the 2008 Democratic National Convention between 7:00 and 8:00 pm MDT. Local 1, which represents 40,000 janitors, security officers, building service and industrial workers in four states, has a long history working with Barack Obama, going back to his days as a community organizer on Chicagos Southside. Read more...

SEIU Keeps Focus on Working Families as 2008 Democratic Convention Kicks Off

Aug 24, 2008 - SEIU members and leaders will kick off the first day of the 2008 Democratic Convention by keeping the focus in Denver on working families. President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will discuss what SEIU members are doing to elect Barack Obama and create one nation that works for all Americans, SEIU members will talk to delegates and leaders about winning healthcare for all and an economy that rewards work instead of wealth, and SEIU Local 1 President Tom Balanoff will discuss Barack Obamas long history of standing with working families in a prime time address to the Convention. Read more...

SEIU Keeps Focus on Working Families as 2008 Democratic Convention Kicks Off

Aug 24, 2008 - SEIU members and leaders will kick off the first day of the 2008 Democratic Convention by keeping the focus in Denver on working families. President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will discuss what SEIU members are doing to elect Barack Obama and create one nation that works for all Americans, SEIU members will talk to delegates and leaders about winning healthcare for all and an economy that rewards work instead of wealth, and SEIU Local 1 President Tom Balanoff will discuss Barack Obamas long history of standing with working families in a prime time address to the Convention. Read more...

SEIU Members Call Obama-Biden Ticket Most Pro-Working Family in a Generation

Aug 23, 2008 - Today, members of the nations fastest growing union applauded Senator Obamas selection of Senator Joe Biden as his running mate, calling the two the most pro-working family presidential ticket in a generation. SEIU members are already on the ground in more than 20 states working to elect the first president and vice-president to walk a day in the shoes of SEIU members. Read more...

SEIU Members Call Obama-Biden Ticket Most Pro-Working Family in a Generation

Aug 23, 2008 - Today, members of the nations fastest growing union applauded Senator Obamas selection of Senator Joe Biden as his running mate, calling the two the most pro-working family presidential ticket in a generation. SEIU members are already on the ground in more than 20 states working to elect the first president and vice-president to walk a day in the shoes of SEIU members. Read more...

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger Statement

Aug 21, 2008 - On the Passing of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs JonesAmerica lost a true stateswoman yesterday and SEIU members and working families in Cleveland lost a dear friend. Read more...

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger Statement

Aug 21, 2008 - On the Passing of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs JonesAmerica lost a true stateswoman yesterday and SEIU members and working families in Cleveland lost a dear friend. Read more...

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger Statement

Aug 21, 2008 - On the Passing of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs JonesAmerica lost a true stateswoman yesterday and SEIU members and working families in Cleveland lost a dear friend. Read more...

The Pharcyde Joins "Take Back Labor Day" at Foot of the RNC

Aug 20, 2008 - Alternative Rap group The Pharcyde is the latest act to join the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) September 1st Take Back Labor Day Festival at the foot of the Republican National Convention. Read more...

The Pharcyde Joins "Take Back Labor Day" at Foot of the RNC

Aug 20, 2008 - Alternative Rap group The Pharcyde is the latest act to join the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) September 1st Take Back Labor Day Festival at the foot of the Republican National Convention. Read more...

Hundreds To Rally For Healthcare During Democratic National Convention

Aug 20, 2008 - Hundreds of healthcare workers, delegates, advocates and working families from Colorado and across the country will gather in a park just steps from the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, August 27, to rally for a real solution to the nations healthcare crisis. Read more...

Hundreds To Rally For Healthcare During Democratic National Convention

Aug 20, 2008 - Hundreds of healthcare workers, delegates, advocates and working families from Colorado and across the country will gather in a park just steps from the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, August 27, to rally for a real solution to the nations healthcare crisis. Read more...

Hundreds To Rally For Healthcare During Democratic National Convention

Aug 20, 2008 - Hundreds of healthcare workers, delegates, advocates and working families from Colorado and across the country will gather in a park just steps from the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, August 27, to rally for a real solution to the nations healthcare crisis. Read more...

SEIU to Raise Workers Voices, Concerns Through Prominent Role at Democratic National Convention

Aug 19, 2008 - When the 2008 Democratic National Convention kicks off in Denver, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)the fastest-growing union in the countrywill be there, representing the interests and concerns of men and women who get up and go to work every day. Read more...

SEIU to Raise Workers Voices, Concerns Through Prominent Role at Democratic National Convention

Aug 19, 2008 - When the 2008 Democratic National Convention kicks off in Denver, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)the fastest-growing union in the countrywill be there, representing the interests and concerns of men and women who get up and go to work every day. Read more...

Anna Burger to Address Convention and Nation Tuesday Night

Aug 19, 2008 - On Tuesday night, August 26, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer and Change to Win Chair Anna Burger will address the country in primetime during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Read more...

Anna Burger to Address Convention and Nation Tuesday Night

Aug 19, 2008 - On Tuesday night, August 26, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer and Change to Win Chair Anna Burger will address the country in primetime during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Read more...

Anna Burger to Address Convention and Nation Tuesday Night

Aug 19, 2008 - On Tuesday night, August 26, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer and Change to Win Chair Anna Burger will address the country in primetime during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Read more...

McCain Health Care: Putting Moms Last

Aug 18, 2008 - With health care costs rising out of control, more and more Americans are finding it impossible to keep up. Women, 90 percent of whom shoulder the health care responsibility for their families, are in particular feeling the strain. Read more...

SEIU to Count Down to Better Health Care with 365 Stories for Next 365 Days

Aug 15, 2008 - With growing numbers of Americans calling on elected officials to fix the broken health care system, SEIUthe nations largest organization of health care workerslaunched 365 Stories: Countdown to Health Care today. Read more...

SEIU to Count Down to Better Health Care with 365 Stories for Next 365 Days

Aug 15, 2008 - With growing numbers of Americans calling on elected officials to fix the broken health care system, SEIUthe nations largest organization of health care workerslaunched 365 Stories: Countdown to Health Care today. Read more...

SEIU to Count Down to Better Health Care with 365 Stories for Next 365 Days

Aug 15, 2008 - With growing numbers of Americans calling on elected officials to fix the broken health care system, SEIUthe nations largest organization of health care workerslaunched 365 Stories: Countdown to Health Care today. Read more...

SEIU MEMBERS LAUNCH TV AD ON GORDON SMITH'S SUPPORT FOR BUSH-CHENEY AGENDA

Aug 13, 2008 - SEIUs 50,000 members in Oregon will begin airing a new television ad today, titled Middle, highlighting Senator Gordon Smiths support of George Bushs political agenda and collecting large political contributions from drug and oil companies in return. Read more...

SEIU MEMBERS LAUNCH TV AD ON GORDON SMITH'S SUPPORT FOR BUSH-CHENEY AGENDA

Aug 13, 2008 - SEIUs 50,000 members in Oregon will begin airing a new television ad today, titled Middle, highlighting Senator Gordon Smiths support of George Bushs political agenda and collecting large political contributions from drug and oil companies in return. Read more...

SEIU MEMBERS LAUNCH TV AD ON GORDON SMITH'S SUPPORT FOR BUSH-CHENEY AGENDA

Aug 13, 2008 - SEIUs 50,000 members in Oregon will begin airing a new television ad today, titled Middle, highlighting Senator Gordon Smiths support of George Bushs political agenda and collecting large political contributions from drug and oil companies in return. Read more...

SEIU MEMBERS LAUNCH TV AD ON SUNUNU TIES TO DRUG COMPANIES AND INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Aug 13, 2008 - SEIU, the nations largest union of health care workers, will begin airing a new television ad, titled Higher Costs, throughout New Hampshire today highlighting Senator John Sununus large political contributions from prescription drug companies and the health insurance industry. Read more...

SEIU MEMBERS LAUNCH TV AD ON SUNUNU TIES TO DRUG COMPANIES AND INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Aug 13, 2008 - SEIU, the nations largest union of health care workers, will begin airing a new television ad, titled Higher Costs, throughout New Hampshire today highlighting Senator John Sununus large political contributions from prescription drug companies and the health insurance industry. Read more...

SEIU MEMBERS LAUNCH TV AD ON SUNUNU TIES TO DRUG COMPANIES AND INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Aug 13, 2008 - SEIU, the nations largest union of health care workers, will begin airing a new television ad, titled Higher Costs, throughout New Hampshire today highlighting Senator John Sununus large political contributions from prescription drug companies and the health insurance industry. Read more...

America For Sale?

Aug 12, 2008 - This week, SEIU began running radio and print advertisements in six states as part of an ongoing public awareness campaign highlighting the national security concerns raised by the growing links between foreign governments and private equity buyout firms. Read more...

America For Sale?

Aug 12, 2008 - This week, SEIU began running radio and print advertisements in six states as part of an ongoing public awareness campaign highlighting the national security concerns raised by the growing links between foreign governments and private equity buyout firms. Read more...

America For Sale?

Aug 12, 2008 - This week, SEIU began running radio and print advertisements in six states as part of an ongoing public awareness campaign highlighting the national security concerns raised by the growing links between foreign governments and private equity buyout firms. Read more...

America For Sale?

Aug 12, 2008 - This week, SEIU began running radio and print advertisements in six states as part of an ongoing public awareness campaign highlighting the national security concerns raised by the growing links between foreign governments and private equity buyout firms. Read more...

America For Sale?

Aug 12, 2008 - This week, SEIU began running radio and print advertisements in six states as part of an ongoing public awareness campaign highlighting the national security concerns raised by the growing links between foreign governments and private equity buyout firms. Read more...

America For Sale?

Aug 12, 2008 - This week, SEIU began running radio and print advertisements in six states as part of an ongoing public awareness campaign highlighting the national security concerns raised by the growing links between foreign governments and private equity buyout firms. Read more...

America For Sale?

Aug 12, 2008 - This week, SEIU began running radio and print advertisements in six states as part of an ongoing public awareness campaign highlighting the national security concerns raised by the growing links between foreign governments and private equity buyout firms. Read more...

SEIU Members Boost Voter Rolls in Key Battleground States

Aug 11, 2008 - Hundreds of SEIU members are taking time off their jobs and volunteering after work to boost the voter rolls in their communities to elect Barack Obama and a pro-worker majority in Congress. Read more...

SEIU Members Boost Voter Rolls in Key Battleground States

Aug 11, 2008 - Hundreds of SEIU members are taking time off their jobs and volunteering after work to boost the voter rolls in their communities to elect Barack Obama and a pro-worker majority in Congress. Read more...

SEIU Members Boost Voter Rolls in Key Battleground States

Aug 11, 2008 - Hundreds of SEIU members are taking time off their jobs and volunteering after work to boost the voter rolls in their communities to elect Barack Obama and a pro-worker majority in Congress. Read more...

SEIU Members Boost Voter Rolls in Key Battleground States

Aug 11, 2008 - Hundreds of SEIU members are taking time off their jobs and volunteering after work to boost the voter rolls in their communities to elect Barack Obama and a pro-worker majority in Congress. Read more...

Musicians Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Billy Bragg and Atmosphere to "Take Back Labor Day" at Foot of Republican National Convention

Aug 05, 2008 - Hip Hop acts Lupe Fiasco and Atmosphere, actor/ musician Mos Def and British rocker Billy Bragg are joining the line-up at the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) Take Back Labor Day Festival at the foot of the Republican National Convention. Read more...

SEIU Launches Nationwide Actions To Question Health Insurance Industry Tactics

Aug 04, 2008 - With a series of events in states across the country, SEIU will call attention to health care insurance industry tactics that do more to ensure profits than insure patients. Read more...

SEIU Launches Nationwide Actions To Question Health Insurance Industry Tactics

Aug 04, 2008 - With a series of events in states across the country, SEIU will call attention to health care insurance industry tactics that do more to ensure profits than insure patients. Read more...

SEIU Launches Nationwide Actions To Question Health Insurance Industry Tactics

Aug 04, 2008 - With a series of events in states across the country, SEIU will call attention to health care insurance industry tactics that do more to ensure profits than insure patients. Read more...

SEIU Launches Nationwide Actions To Question Health Insurance Industry Tactics

Aug 04, 2008 - With a series of events in states across the country, SEIU will call attention to health care insurance industry tactics that do more to ensure profits than insure patients. Read more...

This Time Wal-Mart May Have Crossed the Line

Aug 01, 2008 - Today a Wall Street Journal article reports that Wal-Mart is holding mandatory meetings with supervisors and managers to warn them that if Senator Obama wins the presidential election, Democrats will pass the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize in Wal-Mart stores. Read more...

John McCains Economic Plan: Putting the Burden on Working Families

Jul 31, 2008 - As part of an extensive campaign to educate voters about where John McCain stands on the issues, SEIU today released a report that details his anti-working family record in the Senate and his harmful agenda for working families as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. SEIU members will be sharing the report with their families, neighbors, coworkers, and other voters as they work to elect a pro-worker president and Congress in November. Read more...

John McCains Economic Plan: Putting the Burden on Working Families

Jul 31, 2008 - As part of an extensive campaign to educate voters about where John McCain stands on the issues, SEIU today released a report that details his anti-working family record in the Senate and his harmful agenda for working families as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. SEIU members will be sharing the report with their families, neighbors, coworkers, and other voters as they work to elect a pro-worker president and Congress in November. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Launches Campaign to Win Health Care Majority in Congress

Jul 29, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, today announced a new campaign to elect a health care majority in Congress. The effort, which will target competitive races in seven states, is designed to solidify Congressional support for comprehensive health care reform, and send a clear message to lawmakers that health care must be their number one priority in 2009. Read more...

SEIU Sends Fifth "Dear John" Letter To Senator McCain

Jul 29, 2008 - Today, SEIU sent a fifth "Dear John" letter to Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president. SEIU members are offering assistance in the absence of any economic blueprint from McCain that puts working families first. The letters will continue until McCain personally meets with members. Read more...

SEIU Condemns Criminalization of Immigrant Workers and Renews the Call for Smart, Pragmatic Reform

Jul 24, 2008 - Today the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees and International Law held a hearing on the government's handling of immigration raids and criminalization of immigrant workers. Below is a statement from SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina. Read more...

AMERICA FOR SALE?

Jul 23, 2008 - Potential national security concerns are being raised over the growing links between foreign governments and secretive private equity buyout firms in a major new public awareness campaign being launched today. The campaign, sponsored by one of the nation's largest unions, SEIU (Service Employees International Union), calls for stronger federal oversight of arrangements where foreign government-controlled investment funds, known as "sovereign wealth funds (SWFs),"buy into private firms that own or invest in American companies responsible for defense, energy, and homeland security. Read more...

SEIU Calls On Health Insurance Companies To Join The Health Care Reform Team

Jul 21, 2008 - Michelle Gray, from Springfield, Ohio, works hard every day as a nurse for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Thanks to her union, SEIU District 1199 WKO, she has access to quality health care at an affordable price. Read more...

Update on the Road to American Health Care

Jul 16, 2008 - SEIU's Road to American Health Care bus tour is a little over halfway through its nationwide journey - and every mile that ticks by on the odometer brings us that much closer to the goal of a new, American health care system. Since hitting the road in Cleveland on April 29, the Road to American Health Care bus has truly been a vehicle for change, giving a voice to the millions of people across the country who are struggling with health care costs: Read more...

Top Talent to Perform at SEIU Labor Day Festival at Foot of Republican National Convention

Jul 15, 2008 - On the eve of the Republican National Convention, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-representing 2 million working people-will sponsor a festival to celebrate workers' achievements and to promote a New Vision for the 21st Century that includes: Read more...

Working Families, Merchants Send Joint Message to Lawmakers: Stop Credit Card Abuses Now

Jul 15, 2008 - In a groundbreaking joint effort by the nation's fastest growing union and trade associations representing merchants, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Food Marketing Institute (FMI), National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), and the National Grocers Association (NGA) sent a letter to every Member of the House of Representatives today calling on Congress to stop the nation's biggest banks and credit card companies from continuing abusive practices which harm American consumers and businesses. Read more...

AFT Election to Benefit Students, Standards

Jul 14, 2008 - SEIU president Andy Stern issued the following statement on the election of Randi Weingarten to lead the American Federation of Teachers: Read more...

Amy Dacey Named New Government Relations Director for SEIU

Jul 14, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today announced that it has named Amy Dacey as Government Relations Director for the nation's fastest growing union. Read more...

SEIU Members Launch TV Ad Supporting Jay Nixon's Gubernatorial Bid

Jul 14, 2008 - SEIU, the nation's largest union of health care workers, will begin airing a new television ad throughout Missouri tomorrow, supporting Jay Nixon as the best choice for Missouri voters concerned about health care. Read more...

An Overview of SEIU's Leadership on Healthcare

Jul 11, 2008 - Over the past several years, SEIU and its members have become the strongest force for quality affordable health care anywhere in America. The critical 2008 elections give us the unprecedented opportunity to raise the bar even higher. We are seizing that opportunity and will not stop until every man, woman and child has quality, affordable care they can count on. Read more...

Call for Justice: SEIU Condemns Violence and Intimidation in Cambodian Elections

Jul 10, 2008 - SEIU president Andy Stern issued the following statement today in response to reports that violence and intimidation tactics have been used as part of a ruling party campaign to weaken political rivals prior to Cambodian national elections in July 2008: Read more...

Bush Administration Again Attacks Constitutional Rights

Jul 10, 2008 - By signing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA) into law today, the Bush Administration adds another disgraceful chapter to its annals of attacks on our civil liberties. Read more...

The Drumbeat for Health Care Grows

Jul 08, 2008 - With momentum building for fundamental change in the nation's health care system, SEIU - the largest union of health care workers - today helped launch a new, national coalition that will bring together millions of Americans to demand quality, affordable health care for all. Read more...

Call with Anna Burger This Wednesday on SEIU Members' General Election Work

Jun 30, 2008 - Conference call to discuss SEIU's plans for the general election campaign, including activity by more than 100,000 members, more than any election in SEIU's history. Some of the states discussed will include: AZ, CO, IA, MN, NC, NH, NM, OH, PA, WI and VA Read more...

Stern Offers Health Care Solutions at Economic Summit with Barack Obama

Jun 26, 2008 - SEIU International President Andy Stern joined Senator Obama and other panelists for a summit today in Pittsburgh focused on American competitiveness in a global economy. Read more...

House Stands Up For Working People, Deals Blow to Buyout Industry

Jun 25, 2008 - In a rebuke to corporate buyout CEOs and their army of Washington lobbyists, the House of Representatives voted today to close a tax loophole that allows billionaire private equity managers to pay a lower tax rate than many middle-class Americans such as nurses or firefighters. Read more...

SEIU Members Get Ready to Mobilize for General Elections

Jun 24, 2008 - Nurses, child care and home care workers, janitors, security officers and other SEIU members across the country are already talking to voters and hitting the streets in key states and races across the country. Read more...

SEIU Pushes for Healthcare Solutions That Close Racial Gaps

Jun 19, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation's largest union of nurses and healthcare workers, has mounted a nationwide push for health access and equity as part of its unprecedented campaign to build a new, American healthcare system. Read more...

Workers Criticize Anti-Worker Policies and Poor Performance to LA Retirement Fund

Jun 17, 2008 - Worker and retiree advocates testified today about the structure and underperformance of the Lazard Mid-Cap fund, with $11 million in city money, and about the anti-worker policies at Lazard affiliated companies at a meeting of the Los Angeles Board of Deferred Compensation Administration. Read more...

SEIU MEMBERS CALL ON CONGRESS TO EXTEND JOBLESS BENEFITS

Jun 12, 2008 - As record gas and food prices, skyrocketing health care costs and the mortgage crisis continue to hammer the economy, SEIU's two million members today called on Congress to pass legislation extending jobless benefits. Read more...

SEIU, National Conference of Black Mayors Partner To Close Racial Gaps in Healthcare

Jun 05, 2008 - As calls for solutions to the nation's healthcare crisis intensify, the National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM) has joined with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to address the widening racial gaps in health care access and quality that shorten the lives of African Americans. Read more...

TODAY: OBAMA TO ADDRESS SEIU CONVENTION

Jun 04, 2008 - Since endorsing Obama in February, thousands of SEIU members have made millions of phone calls, knocked on more than a million doors, appeared on multiple television ads, and volunteered thousands of hours to make Barack Obama the Democratic nominee for president. This morning, Senator Obama will address the 2008 SEIU Convention currently taking place in Puerto Rico live via satellite. Read more...

Pre-eminent Leader of Burmese Democracy Movement Addresses more than 2000 at SEIU Convention

Jun 03, 2008 - U Maung Maung addressed more than two thousand members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) at their 2008 convention today, sharing stories of the countless numbers of Burmese workers who face forced labor at the hands of the military -- and even imprisonment for standing up for their rights. Read more...

SEIU: THE GENERAL ELECTION BEGINS TONIGHT

Jun 03, 2008 - "Now that the final primary votes have been cast, we congratulate Senator Clinton on waging a vigorous campaign that inspired working people across this country," said Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger. "Senator Clinton has been a strong friend of workers and we look forward to continuing to work with her in the Senate." 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...

SEIU Hits 2 Million-Member Mark; Launches Groundbreaking Organizing, Social Justice Program

Jun 02, 2008 - Members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) kicked off its 24th International Convention today with the announcement that the organization's membership had grown to two million. Read more...

La SEIU llega a 2 millones de miembros; lanza innovador programa de organizacion y justicia social

Jun 02, 2008 - Miembros de la Unin Internacional de Empleados de Servicio (Service Employees International Union, SEIU) inauguraron hoy la 24.a Convencin Internacional anunciando que el nmero de miembros de la organizacin haba llegado a dos millones. Read more...

Barack Obama to Address SEIU Convention

Jun 02, 2008 - This Wednesday at 10:50 am EST, Sen. Barack Obama will address more than 4,000 SEIU members, leaders, and guests at the 2008 SEIU Convention in Puerto Rico by live satellite feed. Read more...

Janitors Overwhelmingly Approve New Contract with Higher Wages, Improved Access to Family Healthcare, Other Benefits

May 28, 2008 - After a strike of more than 1,000 janitors that impacted Silicon Valley's high-tech giants and spread throughout the Bay Area, janitors won higher wages, improved access to family healthcare and other benefits in a four-year pact covering 6,000 janitors. Read more...

SEIU: BUSH AND MCCAIN STAND UNITED AGAINST FIXING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

May 27, 2008 - When President Bush and Senator McCain share a stage tonight at a high-dollar fundraiser in Phoenix, voters will be hard pressed to identify any substantial differences between the two, especially when it comes to their ideas for health care. Read more...

John McCain's Health Care Proposals: Making a Bad Problem Worse

May 22, 2008 - As part of an extensive campaign to educate voters about where John McCain stands on the issues, SEIU today released a review of some of his disastrous health care proposals. The research will be shared with the more than 500,000 health care voters SEIU has identified through its Americans for Health Care campaign, as well as other voters, union members and community allies. Read more...

Strike Spreads in Silicon Valley, Bay Area

May 21, 2008 - Striking janitors are demonstrating outside the Intel shareholder's meeting this morning in Mountain View as concerned investors inside question the company's policies on issues that affect working families. Read more...

SEIU MEMBERS HELP CLOSE OUT NOMINATION FOR OBAMA IN OREGON

May 20, 2008 - SEIU's 50,000 members in Oregon helped Barack Obama win big, giving him a majority of the pledged delegates in the nomination contest in addition to a majority of the superdelegates. Read more...

SEIU Members Get Out Vote for Obama and Other Candidates in Oregon Primary

May 20, 2008 - SEIU members across Oregon are working hard to close the Democratic nomination today for Barack Obama and turn out the vote for U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley, Attorney General candidate John Kroger, Portland Mayoral candidate Sam Adams and other state and local candidates. With more than 50,000 members, SEIU is the largest union in the state. Read more...

Rank-and-File Members Bring Lawsuit Against UHW-W Officers Demanding Return of Nearly $200,000 in Dues Money Diverted to Unlawful, Off-the-Books Fund

May 20, 2008 - Rank-and-file members of SEIU California affiliate United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W) today filed a lawsuit against two dozen of UHW-W's top officers, demanding the return of nearly $200,000 in dues money that was illegally transferred from the UHW-W treasury into an outside, off-the-books fund and which is still unaccounted for. Read more...

Day 1: Silicon Valley Janitors Walking Off the Job Today

May 20, 2008 - Janitors who clean some of the area's highest-profile corporations are trading their brooms for picket signs today. Hundreds of janitors are walking off the job at Cisco Systems, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and other high-tech and bio-tech corporations throughout the Silicon Valley. As the strike expands, it could spread to other parts of the Bay Area. Read more...

CARLYLE GROUP BUYOUT OF BOOZ-ALLEN WOULD ADD BILLIONS IN SENSITIVE U.S. CONTRACTS TO PORTFOLIO PARTIALLY OWNED BY ABU DHABI GOVERNMENT

May 16, 2008 - Today's announcement that global buyout firm Carlyle Group will pay $2.54 billion for Booz Allen's government consulting arm demands immediate congressional attention to examine any national security implications and to clarify present and future control issues before the deal receives regulatory approval. Read more...

Statement from SEIU Local 1021 President Damita Davis Howard Regarding Governor Schwarzenegger's Budget Cuts

May 15, 2008 - SEIU Local 1021 President Damita Davis Howard released the following statement today in response to Governor Schwarzenegger's devastating budget proposal. SEIU Local 1021 represents 54,000 Bay Area health care and service workers and their families. Read more...

Advocates Call for Congress to Stand Up to Profit-Hungry Nursing Homes and Protect Seniors

May 15, 2008 - The nation's largest healthcare workers' union testified before Chairman Stupak's (D-MI-1) House Energy & Commerce Oversight Subcommittee today, calling for Congress to stand up to the powerful and profit-hungry nursing home industry and pass legislation that would improve the quality of care by ensuring that residents and taxpayers know who owns nursing homes, who is responsible for care at them, and how taxpayer funds are being used. Read more...

1199 SEIU Joins Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez to Announce New Home New Home Healthcare Initiative for the City's Elderly Public Housing Residents

May 12, 2008 - 1199 SEIU today joined Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez in unveiling new congressional legislation to improve home healthcare services for the City's elderly public housing residents. Congresswoman Velazquez made the announcement at a Lower East Side residential development for seniors. Read more...

SEIU Members to Politicians: Live Up to Your Promises Or We Will Hold You Accountable

May 08, 2008 - Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union say they will hold elected leaders strictly accountable if they say one thing before an election and then do something else. Read more...

Workers With No Healthcare Protecting Kaiser Facilities, Security Contractor May Be Misleading California's Largest Healthcare Provider

May 07, 2008 - Oakland, Calif.-In the heart of California's leading healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, an increasing number of security officers report they either don't have health insurance or can't afford the plan for their families. Read more...

Open Hearings, Fact-Finding Today by SEIU Long Term Care Workers Continues Democratic Process Begun in 2006

May 06, 2008 - A democratic process involving several SEIU local unions that began in 2006 continues today with open hearings and fact-finding in California. SEIU members in California are in the process of examining how homecare and nursing home workers in the long term care profession should organize themselves in order to have the greatest strength to win for their families and the clients they serve. Read more...

OBAMA: CLEARLY THE PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE

May 06, 2008 - "Senator Obama's commanding win in North Carolina and close showing in Indiana means he is clearly the Democratic nominee for President,"said Anna Burger, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer. "We've had a long process and the outcome is now clear. The Democratic Party should come together to focus on winning in November." Read more...

SEIU Warns of the Disastrous Impact on All Working People and Renews the Call for Smart, Pragmatic Reform

May 06, 2008 - Today the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security convened a hearing on the employer verification system proposed in the Shuler/Tancredo Secure America through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act. In response, SEIU issued a formal statement before the subcommittee, and SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina issued the following statement: Read more...

STATEMENT OF THE SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION TO U.S. House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee ON THE SECURE AMERICA THROUGH VERIFICATION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT

May 06, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is strongly opposed to The Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act ("SAVE Act,"HR 4088). We are particularly concerned about the cost of the Act to the federal government and the burden that it will place on many American workers and those legally authorized to work in the United States. Read more...

Hospital Security Officers Launch Statewide Strike to Protest Unfair Labor Practices

May 06, 2008 - Hundreds of security officers responsible for protecting patients and staff at Kaiser medical facilities throughout the state launched an unprecedented three-day strike today to protest unfair labor practices by employer Inter-Con Security Read more...

State Employees Association of North Carolina Joins SEIU in Historic Union Vote

May 05, 2008 - On May 3, the State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) voted to affiliate with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The SEANC convention included 671 elected delegates representing SEANC's 55,000 state employee members across the state. Nearly 80 percent, or 524 delegates, voted to affiliate with SEIU. Read more...

Inter-Con Files Charges to Try and Stop Statewide Security Officer Strike, Workers Vow to Continue

May 02, 2008 - Inter-Con Security filed for charges with the National Labor Relations Board late Thursday and is asking the NLRB to seek a court injunction against a 3-day unfair labor practice strike by more than 400 officers who protect Kaiser facilities. The predominantly minority workforce is scheduled to walk off the job starting May 6 to protest how Inter-Con has retaliated against, threatened, intimidated and spied on workers who are trying to form a union. Read more...

Justice for Janitors Launches New Website TheIrvineCompanyWatch.org as Thousands Demonstrate Outside Buildings Owned by The Irvine Company in LA

Apr 30, 2008 - As contracts covering more than 16,000 California janitors expired this week, thousands of janitors marched and rallied outside buildings owned by The Irvine Company in Century City and in Orange County's Fashion Island while playing drums, waving brooms and chanting. Read more...

SEIU Members Engage in Aggressive GOTV Campaign in Indiana

Apr 30, 2008 - With less than a week to go before Indiana's Democratic Primary on Tuesday, May 6, SEIU members are stepping up their efforts on behalf of Senator Obama for President. Starting today, SEIU will be up on the air statewide urging voters to support Barack Obama on May 6. The ad is part of an extensive campaign that SEIU members are waging to get out the vote for Obama in the remaining days before the primary. Read more...

SEIU BEGINS NATIONAL TV ASSAULT ON MCCAIN'S TERRIBLE HEALTHCARE "PLAN"

Apr 29, 2008 - At a press conference today, SEIU will unveil its first ad of the election cycle focused on John McCain's terrible record on healthcare and his healthcare "plan."The ad coincides with a policy announcement on healthcare by McCain today in Florida. Read more...

Inter-Con Security Officers to Launch Strikes at Kaiser Hospitals Across California, Defend Civil Rights

Apr 25, 2008 - Security officers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals are ramping up their fight against employer Inter-Con, today issuing 10-day notice of an unfair labor practice strike in California to defend their civil rights. Inter-Con workers held the first-ever strike by hospital security officers last month in response to Inter-Con threatening, intimidating, and spying on workers who were trying to form a union for better conditions Read more...

20,000 More Pennsylvania Child Care Providers to Form Union

Apr 25, 2008 - Today a majority of 20,000 home-based child care providers casting ballots voted to unite for a stronger say in delivering affordable, quality child care by forming their own union with Child Care Providers UNITED (CCP UNITED). Ballots were counted Friday by the American Arbitration Association. Over 95 percent of child care providers casting ballots voted to join CCP UNITED. Read more...

Congress Must Not Hedge on Health Care Reform

Apr 24, 2008 - SEIU members and leaders responded strongly to statements by congressional Democrats that health care reform is unlikely in the new Congress. Read more...

NEW SEIU REPORT ON SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS AND PRIVATE EQUITY CALLS FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY OF SWF INVESTMENTS IN U.S. BUYOUT FUNDS

Apr 23, 2008 - Access, Decreased Transparency, a new report released today by the 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to coincide with tomorrow's (April 24) U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Hearing on sovereign investments, calls on Congress to equip itself and the public with the tools necessary to make informed decisions about sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investment in United States private equity firms. Read more...

SEIU Members Launch TV Ad on Obama's Solutions for Reigning in Gas Prices

Apr 17, 2008 - Today, SEIU went up on television in Pennsylvania to draw attention to Barack Obama's solutions for skyrocketing gas prices. Read more...

Statement of SEIU President Andy Stern Regarding UHW-W's Confirmation of Illegal Delegate Election Process

Apr 16, 2008 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement today in response to the now-confirmed illegal delegate elections of SEIU local union United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W): Read more...

SEIU Send Second "Dear John" Letter To Senator John McCain

Apr 15, 2008 - SEIU today sent a second a "Dear John"letter to Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president. SEIU members are offering their assistance in the absence of any economic blueprint from McCain and will continue sending letters until he meets with them and presents proposals that put working families first. Read more...

Security Officers Win First-Ever Union Contract

Apr 14, 2008 - -D.C. City Council Members and clergy joined with Local 32BJ today to announce agreements with the four top private security contractors in Washington D.C. on 4-year contracts providing nearly 1,500 private security officers with the higher wages, health care and other benefits they need to support their families Read more...

SEIU Urges Action Now In Congress To Provide Economic Relief To Workers

Apr 10, 2008 - SEIU's President and Secretary-Treasurer met with House and Senate leadership today to discuss solutions to provide relief to workers who are being affected by the current economic downturn. Read more...

SEIU: McCain Still Does Not Get It

Apr 10, 2008 - SEIU released the following statement from SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Senator McCain's economic proposals made today in New York City: Read more...

Twin Cities Security Officers' Victory Ensures Affordable Family Health Care, Major Wage Improvements

Apr 09, 2008 - In a groundbreaking victory that will pave the way for similar gains by other workers in Minnesota, private security officers in Minneapolis and Saint Paul won access to affordable health insurance, higher wages, improved training and equipment, and sick leave in a tentative contract agreement reached late last night with their employers. Read more...

Inter-Con Security Officers at Kaiser On Strike as Inter-Con Breaks More Laws

Apr 04, 2008 - Security officers employed by Inter-Con to protect Kaiser Permanente patients and staff have conducted a week of pickets and activities across California, culminating in one-day strikes and pickets today in Hayward, Fremont and Sacramento. Read more...

Honoring the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Apr 04, 2008 - Gerry Hudson, Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement today: Read more...

Aramark Workers Launch National Tour to Probe Impact of Corporate Giant's Business Practices on America's Communities

Apr 03, 2008 - With a growing number of communities nationwide raising concerns about the business and workplace practices of food service giant Aramark, four current and former Aramark employees are launching a national tour today to learn more about the corporation's impact on America's communities. Read more...

Striking Security Officers File Federal Charges Against Inter-Con

Apr 03, 2008 - Security officers employed by Inter-Con to protect Kaiser Permanente patients and staff across California today filed federal charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against their employer for spying on, threatening, interrogating, and intimidating workers on the job. 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...

OBAMA STANDS WITH SEIU MEMBERS FOR CHANGE AT CONVENTION

Apr 02, 2008 - In a speech today at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO's 38th Constitutional Convention, Senator Barack Obama laid out a plan to help working families and put us on a clear path to creating a new American Dream. From ending the war in Iraq to strengthening the ability of workers to organize and turning around the economic slowdown, Obama will deliver the change America needs. Read more...

Tibetan Protests No Excuse for Violence

Apr 01, 2008 - Gerry Hudson, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Jigme Ugen, executive vice president of SEIU Healthcare issued the following statement today: Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for Friday, April 4, 2008: Security Officers to Strike Inter-Con at California Healthcare Facilities

Mar 31, 2008 - Security officers employed by Inter-Con to protect Kaiser Permanente patients and staff are preparing to strike, according to SEIU Local 24/7, California's security officer union. Since November 2005, 1,500 Inter-Con security officers at Kaiser Permanente have been working to improve security and working conditions by forming a union with SEIU. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for March 28, 2008: Liberty Bell Security Officers Demand a Safe Workplace

Mar 28, 2008 - Liberty Bell Security Officers will be leafleting at noon on Friday March 28th. They are coming out to protest a number of cutbacks that their employer Wackenhut has made which threaten the workers' security and that of visitors to the Independence National Historic Park. Read more...

SEIU Does Not Endorse Lipitor or Any Other Product

Mar 27, 2008 - Recently, a letter appearing to endorse a well-known pharmaceutical was circulated by the International Association of EMTS and Paramedics, an affiliate of the National Association of Government Employees (IAEP/SEIU). Read more...

Nine Twin Cities Security Officers Arrested While Standing Up for Health Care for Working Families

Mar 27, 2008 - In an historic act of non-violent civil disobedience, nine Minneapolis security officers were among those arrested earlier today while calling attention to the need for the city's private security force to have access to quality affordable health care. Read more...

ADVISORY for Wednesday April 2: SEIU to Host Press Briefing with Leading Black Economists

Mar 27, 2008 - Next Wednesday, the 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by hosting a press briefing with leading black economists to discuss the impact of today's economy on black workers. Read more...

Frontline Caregivers, National Healthcare Providers Unveil What's Working in the Battle Against Chronic Disease:

Mar 19, 2008 - Nurses, doctors and health care workers joined CEO's from a nationally renowned group of health care providers in sharing nearly a dozen pioneering programs that contain costs while improving the quality of chronic care at a summit hosted today by the Partnership for Quality Care (PQC). Read more...

Pennsylvania SEIU Members Available to Discuss Their Efforts for Senator Obama

Mar 19, 2008 - With more than 75,000 members in Pennsylvania, SEIU is working hard to elect Senator Barack Obama president so he can bring about the change America needs. Members have engaged in an extensive voter registration effort in their communities in advance of the March 24 primary deadline. Read more...

Town Hall Meeting with Rep. Barney Frank, Mass. AG Martha Coakley Focuses on Harmful Banking Practices, Rising Credit Card Interest Rates Hurting Working Families and Consumers

Mar 19, 2008 - As federal lawmakers debate legislation that would protect consumers from rising credit card interest rates, U.S. Representative Barney Frank and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley are taking part in a town hall meeting today to discuss the devastating impact of unfair banking and credit card practices on consumers and working families. Read more...

Statement on the Cancellation of Consumer Testimony at the House Financial Services Consumer Credit Hearing

Mar 13, 2008 - The following statement was released today by SEIU, Consumers Union, USPIRG, Consumer Federation of America, and Consumer Action on the cancellation of consumer testimony at the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit hearing: Read more...

SEIU Members Help Turn Out the Vote in Important Foster Win in Illinois

Mar 08, 2008 - SEIU members and working families across Illinois are celebrating Bill Foster's win in Saturday's special election in the 14th congressional district. With more than 5,000 members in the district, SEIU engaged in an extensive voter mobilization effort in support of Foster. Read more...

SEIU Members Help Carry Obama to Overwhelming Victory in Wyoming

Mar 08, 2008 - SEIU members helped carry Sen. Obama to an overwhelming victory in the Wyoming caucuses today with hundreds of SEIU members from every corner of the state turning out their coworkers, families, and friends to set record caucus participation. SEIU has more than 1,200 members in the state. Read more...

Workers, Residents' Family Members Confront Lazard Execs Over Concerns at Atria Senior Living

Mar 05, 2008 - Workers and family members of elderly residents at Atria Senior Living centers confronted private equity owner Lazard's executives outside their annual meeting of buyout fund investors today, demanding better care and wages at hundreds of facilities across the country. Read more...

Barack Obama Wins Debate on Creating a New American Dream

Feb 26, 2008 - Senator Obama clearly demonstrated tonight that he has the best plan and best strategy to create a new American Dream. Whether the topic was ensuring that all Americans have access to health care, ending the war in Iraq, or creating new jobs for workers, Obama showed yet again that he is the best candidate to unite the country for the change we need. Read more...

SEIU Steps Up Advocacy for Obama In March 4 Primary States

Feb 26, 2008 - Members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are escalating their campaign activities for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential bid with a week to go before the pivotal March 4 primaries. Read more...

SEIU Members Turn Their Focus to Winning Ohio and Texas for Obama

Feb 22, 2008 - With critical primaries in Ohio and Texas just days away, SEIU members are already hitting the pavement as part of an extensive, multi-million dollar ground and air campaign for Sen. Barack Obama. Read more...

SEIU Leaders Stern and Burger to Join SEIU Member Activities for Obama in Cleveland Saturday

Feb 22, 2008 - On Saturday, SEIU President Andrew Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will join SEIU members pounding the pavement in Cleveland and Youngstown for Sen. Barack Obama. Stern will kick off a morning canvass with Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and join SEIU member events for Sen. Obama throughout the day. Read more...

SEIU Member to Introduce Barack Obama at Houston Rally Tonight

Feb 19, 2008 - Tonight, SEIU member and janitor Israel Gomez will introduce Sen. Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Houston. Read more...

SEIU Members Endorse Sen. Barack Obama

Feb 15, 2008 - Nurses, childcare workers, janitors and other service workers endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president today, calling him the candidate with the best vision, best plan and best strategy to lead the country to a new American Dream. Read more...

SEIU Members Help Make the Difference in Historic Win for Donna Edwards

Feb 13, 2008 - In a major victory for working people, Donna Edwards defeated longtime incumbent Al Wynn in the Democratic primary to represent Maryland's fourth congressional district. Read more...

SEIU Members: Settlement is the "Write" Thing

Feb 13, 2008 - Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), today released the following statement on the resolution of the Writers Guild strike Read more...

Twin Cities Security Officers Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize Strike

Feb 09, 2008 - Joined by Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and U.S. Representative Keith Ellison, security officers who protect the majority of commercial office buildings and other major properties in Minneapolis and Saint Paul voted today to authorize their bargaining committee to call a strike if necessary. Read more...

Working Families Need More Relief, Less Rhetoric from Washington

Feb 04, 2008 - As a new Washington Post-ABC News poll reveals that public views of the national economy are now more negative than at any point in nearly 15 years, Service Employees International Union Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement today regarding the effects of America's economic woes on working people: Read more...

SEIU Members Launch Unprecedented Effort for Quality, Affordable Health Care for All

Feb 04, 2008 - SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, announced today that it is launching a sweeping new election-year effort to win quality, affordable health care for every man, woman and child in America. Read more...

G4S Workers Renew Strike Threat in Malawi

Feb 01, 2008 - Security guards for G4S in Malawi, struggling to survive on poverty pay, today renewed their threat to strike unless Africa's biggest multinational employer agrees to meet their demand for a 30% raise. Read more...

Left in the Dark and Facing Thousands in Rent Increases, Elderly Atria Senior Living Residents Protest, Call for Improvements

Jan 30, 2008 - Elderly residents at Atria Senior Living's Covell Gardens facility continued their protests over exorbitant rent increases on Wednesday, Jan. 30. Residents and family members detailed how skyrocketing rents have affected them, and pointed to recent problems with care and services at the facility. Read more...

SEIU: Best Thing About Bush's State of the Union Address is That it is His Last

Jan 28, 2008 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger issued the following statement tonight regarding President Bush's final State of the Union address: Read more...

SEIU Statement on the World Economic Forum Study on the Economic Impact of Private Equity

Jan 25, 2008 - Statement by Stephen Lerner, Director of SEIU's Private Equity Project, regarding the World Economic Forum Study on the economic impact of private equity: Read more...

SEIU Drives Growth as Union Workforce Increases for the First Time in Years

Jan 25, 2008 - Seeking to improve their lives and the wide range of services they provide in their communities, 114,158 workers voted to unite in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in 2007. SEIU's growth last year accounted for nearly 25 percent of the total union growth across the country, solidifying SEIU's role as America's fastest-growing union. Read more...

SEIU: Security Officers Reach Tentative Agreement on Historic Union Contract in Los Angeles

Jan 21, 2008 - Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Security Officers United in Los Angeles Local 2006 announced today that they have achieved a tentative agreement on their first union contract. If ratified, the contract will be the best-ever of its kind in the country, raising total compensation - wages and healthcare - by nearly 40 percent. Read more...

Could the Carlyle Group Buyout of Booz Allen Government Consulting Arm Be a Threat to National Security?

Jan 17, 2008 - Global buyout firm the Carlyle Group's announcement that it seeks to acquire Booz Allen's government consulting business should raise serious questions about the ramifications for national security and demands immediate government oversight to ensure adequate controls exist should the deal be completed. Read more...

SEIU Lays Out Measures to Reduce Naturalization Backlog and Help New Citizens Vote in 2008

Jan 17, 2008 - "If the Bush administration truly believes America is stronger and more dynamic when new citizens are welcomed, it will make sure that USCIS processes the hundreds of thousands of citizenship applications trapped in a snarl of red tape and government bureaucracy,"said Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina, upon submitting testimony to the House Subcommittee on Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law on how to reduce the naturalization backlog that may block hundreds of thousands of citizenship applicants from voting in the 2008 Elections. Read more...

Eliseo Medina Testimony on Naturalization Backlog Before House Judiciary Subcommittee

Jan 17, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), on behalf of its more than 1.9 million members, thanks the U.S House of Representatives Subcommittee on Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law for holding this hearing. Read more...

Statement by SEIU International President Andy Stern on Countrywide CEO Mozilo's 'Golden Parachute'

Jan 11, 2008 - "Today's announcement that Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo will receive a severance package totaling $115 million-including free rides on the company jet and his country club bills paid up until 2011-amounts to little more than a "golden parachute."Coming on the heels of Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal's own $161.5 million severance deal, it is clear that corporatism's ethos of enriching companies while impoverishing people is alive and well. Read more...

SEIU: Bank of America Should Not Be Allowed to Acquire Countrywide

Jan 11, 2008 - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-the fastest-growing union in North America-today cautioned against uncritical and short-sighted support for Bank of America's attempt to acquire troubled mortgage giant Countrywide Financial Corporation. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for Jan. 14th: New Show at Bread and Roses Gallery Features Work that Explores Motivations for Voting in 2008

Jan 10, 2008 - The Martin Luther King Jr. Gallery, founded by Bread and Roses, is opening a show that features work by 12 diverse artists on the motivations for voting in 2008. Read more...

National Citizenship Coalition Surpasses One Million Goal; 2007 Citizenship Applications Highest In A Decade

Jan 07, 2008 - Today, the Ya es Hora: Ciudadania! (Citizenship, It's Time!) Campaign announced that it surpassed its goal of helping mobilize more than one million eligible immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship in 2007. Read more...

New York City Office Cleaners Win New Contract with Significant Wage Hikes and Pension Improvements

Dec 29, 2007 - The Local 32BJ Bargaining Committee today announced tentative agreement on a new $6.8 billion contract for 26,000 commercial property service workers in New York City that provides more than 16% in pay increases over the life of the contract, improves the pension benefit for the first time in four years and maintains fully employer-paid family health care coverage. Read more...

Carlyle Group Sewer Sludge Business May Increase Health Risks to Communities

Dec 17, 2007 - People who live near the operations of a Carlyle Group sewer sludge business could be at an increased health risk if Carlyle does not provide information to those communities about toxins and other hazards associated with its business. Read more...

SEIU Releases Detailed Comparison of Presidential Candidates on Health Care

Dec 12, 2007 - With less than a month to go before voters participate in the first-in-the-nation caucuses and primary, SEIU's Americans for Health Care campaign has released a detailed comparison of the health care plans of the Democratic and Republican candidates for president. Read more...

Contract for Bay Area Security Officers Sets New National Standards in Pay, Access to Health Care

Dec 12, 2007 - Security officers united in Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 24/7 voted overwhelmingly to approve a five-year pact with the area's leading private security firms with higher wages and a family health care plan and career ladder that are the first of their kind. Read more...

Carlyle Group Embrace of Abu Dhabi Undermining Respect for Human Rights

Dec 10, 2007 - As nations around world recognize human rights day today, the big money partnership of the Government of Abu Dhabi and global buyout firm the Carlyle Group is undermining respect for human rights Read more...

SEIU Unveils Reform Measures for Holding Nation's Biggest Banks Accountable to Consumers, Working Families

Dec 06, 2007 - With lawmakers continuing the debate over subprime mortgage protections, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) unveiled new reform measures today for some of the nation's largest and most powerful banks. Read more...

Republican Presidential Candidates Continue to Disappoint Health Care Voters

Dec 05, 2007 - With polls consistently showing health care as a top issue for voters in this election, health care voters in early primary and caucus states are voicing their disappointment that no Republican candidate has a plan to ensure all Americans have access to health care. Read more...

SEIU Healthcare Chair Dennis Rivera Shares Vision for Partnership with Puerto Rican Long Term Care Advocates, Providers, and Policymakers

Dec 05, 2007 - In a speech today addressing an audience of AARP advocates, care providers, and policymakers, SEIU Healthcare Chair Dennis Rivera shared pressing concerns about the Commonwealth's readiness to meet future long term care demands and a vision of partnership to build a more sustainable and affordable system of care. Read more...

SEIU Security Officers, Bay Area Security Contractors Reach Tentative Agreement On Higher Wages, Family Healthcare

Nov 30, 2007 - Security officers united in Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 24/7 reached a tentative agreement late last night with the Bay Area's largest private security companies on a contract that includes higher wages and family healthcare. Read more...

SEIU President Andy Stern Calls On States and Pension Funds to Ensure Investments Support Respect for Human Rights

Nov 30, 2007 - In remarks today at the Asia Society of Southern California, SEIU President Andy Stern raised concerns about Abu Dhabi's recent $1.35 billion investment in the Carlyle Group, saying sovereign wealth investment deals should not serve to underwrite human rights violators or anti-worker business practices, but instead work "to open markets and minds." Read more...

SEIU Joins International Union And Environmental Allies To Advocate For Environmental Justice

Nov 30, 2007 - SEIU Executive Vice President Gerry Hudson will travel to Bali, Indonesia, December 6th - 11th as part of the first-ever U.S. labor delegation to participate in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Read more...

Workers Stand Together For A Share Of The Profits

Nov 27, 2007 - Following last week's "labor solidarity"rally and march down Hollywood Boulevard, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members today launched a month-long billboard campaign in support of striking writers. Read more...

Atria Growth in Massachusetts Halted by Town Government

Nov 20, 2007 - In a stunning defeat for Atria Senior Living, one of the country's largest assisted living providers, local elected representatives in Falmouth, Mass. refused to change local zoning law to allow for the expansion of the Atria Woodbriar facility (located at 339 Gifford Street) at the annual Falmouth Town Meeting on Tuesday, November 13. Read more...

Battle over Access to Fisher Island Beaches Escalates; Access to Florida Beaches on the Line

Nov 16, 2007 - In a letter to the Fisher Island Community Association today, SEIU gave Fisher Island until 5:00 p.m. tonight to allow access to the public slip at the Marina and to the public beaches and ferry terminal allowing access to those beaches, or face legal action. Read more...

1,000 Aramark Workers and Their Supporters March on Aramark's World Headquarters to Demand Company Do Better for Customers, Taxpayers, and Workers Across the Country

Nov 14, 2007 - More than 1,000 Aramark workers and their supporters who provide food and cleaning services at facilities across the country came together in Center City with public school parents, clergy and elected officials to call on Philadelphia-based Aramark to improve its treatment of workers and customers at Aramark facilities. Read more...

National Coalition Unveils Unprecedented Campaign to Increase the Latino Vote in 2008 Presidential Election

Nov 14, 2007 - In a briefing at the National Press Club today, a coalition of the nation's largest and most established Latino organizations and the country's largest Spanish-language media companies launched Ya es Hora, Ve y Vota! (It's Time, Go Vote!), a non-partisan national voter mobilization effort targeting U.S. Hispanics. Read more...

Congressional Leaders Schedule Hearings on Quality of Nursing Home Care

Nov 14, 2007 - The nation's largest healthcare workers' union applauded Congressional leaders for scheduling hearings on growing problems with nursing homes. Chairman Pete Stark's (D-CA-13) House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee will examine the effects of nursing home ownership on the quality of care, especially in light of Carlyle Group's takeover of Manor Care. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY for Nov. 17th: Activist Armada of Small Boats to Take "Private" Beach of Exclusive Fisher Island Public

Nov 13, 2007 - An armada of decorated boats will carry hundreds of activists on Saturday, November 17 to the sheltered and until now thought to be off-limits beaches of Fisher Island-named the nation's most expensive zip code by Forbes and labeled "Fantasy Island" by the New York Times-to protest discriminatory and abusive treatment of the workers that clean, maintain, and protect the island. Read more...

Service Workers Call on Aramark to stop leaving Houston Families Behind

Nov 09, 2007 - Last year, thousands of Houston janitors and their families won, for the first time, better wages, access to affordable health care, and dignity on the job. But there are thousands more service workers in Houston who still struggle to make ends meet at dead-end, low-wage jobs with no path toward health insurance. Read more...

Congressional Leaders Schedule Hearings on Quality of Nursing Home Care

Nov 08, 2007 - The nation's largest healthcare workers' union applauded Congressional leaders for scheduling hearings on growing problems with nursing homes. Chairman Pete Stark's (D-CA-13) House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee will examine the effects of nursing home ownership on the quality of care, especially in light of Carlyle Group's takeover of Manor Care. Read more...

Home Care Workers Vote to Join Union

Nov 08, 2007 - In a move that is destined to improve healthcare for thousands of Massachusetts seniors and people with disabilities, 22,000 Massachusetts home care workers have voted to join 1199SEIU, the healthcare workers union. The vote passed by a landslide margin of 94% Yes to 6% No. Read more...

SEIU Healthcare Nurses and Hospital Workers at Tenet Hospitals Approve Agreements with Major Gains on Healthcare Coverage, Strengthened Voice on Patient Care Issues

Nov 05, 2007 - Nurses and hospital workers who belong to SEIU Healthcare at Tenet Healthcare have voted to approve new contract agreements that include a breakthrough commitment to provide access to employer-paid healthcare insurance for all employees in Florida and strengthen employees' voice on issues that affect patient care. Read more...

SEIU TO BUSH: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Nov 02, 2007 - Leaders of the largest healthcare union in the nation today praised the steadfast commitment of Senate leadership in their passage of SCHIP legislation that will provide health coverage for nearly 10 million uninsured children, and raised their voices against any further delay by President Bush in the face of a second promised veto. Read more...

SEIU's Efforts to Improve Private Security Industry Standards Are Challenged by Wackenhut Lawsuit

Nov 02, 2007 - "In the last month alone, Wackenhut security lapses were confirmed at one nuclear power plant, and Wackenhut guards were caught sleeping on the job at another nuclear power plant. Instead of addressing the problems that led to the lapses, Wackenhut has chosen to fight its employees' efforts to improve security. Read more...

Janitors, Supporters Beaten and Pepper-Sprayed by Mall Security at General Growth Properties' Southland Mall in Hayward, California

Nov 02, 2007 - Three people, including two janitors and a union organizer, were hospitalized yesterday after being beaten and pepper-sprayed by Southland Mall security officers during a peaceful 25-person mid-day delegation to the mall's management office to speak out against civil rights abuses against the mall's janitors, who are forming a union in order to gain a voice on the job. Read more...

NFIB Joins AARP, Business Roundtable & SEIU

Nov 01, 2007 - Today, the nation's leading consumer, business, and labor organizations have a new ally: America's small businesses. Read more...

Rangel Tax Reform Package Would Bring More Balance, Fairness

Oct 29, 2007 - America's tax system should reward hard work. Americans expect our tax system to encourage saving, and benefit the majority of Americans. Unfortunately, today's tax laws favor the wealthy. Working Americans without expensive lobbyists and tax lawyers see a system with loopholes, schemes, dodges, and intricate rules that benefit those who least need it. These loopholes and schemes raise the tax burden of working people and undercut vital public services. Read more...

Statement from Dennis Rivera, Chair of SEIU Healthcare Regarding the Passing of Cheryl Johnson, RN, President of the United American Nurses, AFL- CIO

Oct 29, 2007 - Dennis Rivera, Chair of SEIU Healthcare, today issued the following statement regarding the Passing of Cheryl Johnson, RN, President of the United American Nurses, AFL- CIO: Read more...

Health Care Voters in Early States Escalate Their Activities with Two Months to Go Until Iowa Caucuses

Oct 29, 2007 - With just over two months until the first voters in Iowa attend their caucuses to select a nominee for president, health care voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina are pulling out all of the stops to ensure that health care is the number one domestic issue in the election. Read more...

Pennsylvania Child Care Providers Vote to Form Union

Oct 29, 2007 - Over 3,700 home-based child care providers across Pennsylvania voted to form their own union with Child Care Providers UNITED (CCP UNITED). Over 95 percent of providers casting ballots voted to join CCP UNITED. Read more...

Security Officers Who Protect L.A.'s Tallest Buildings Ready To Strike

Oct 27, 2007 - For the first-time ever, private security officers that protect commercial office buildings throughout Los Angeles County voted overwhelmingly to go on strike. The union of 4,000 security officers in hundreds of buildings across Los Angeles County - including Downtown L.A., Century City, Westwood, and Mid-Wilshire - can call a strike at any time. Read more...

SEIU Leaders Applaud House Passage of Children's Healthcare, Warn Bush Against Veto

Oct 26, 2007 - Leaders of the largest healthcare union in the nation today celebrated the House passage of SCHIP legislation that would provide health coverage for nearly 10 million uninsured children, and expressing outrage at President Bush's threat to once again veto the bill. Read more...

SEIU Counsel, Home Care Workers, Disability Community Advocates Urge Congress to Support Fair Home Health Care Act

Oct 25, 2007 - Today, lead counsel for The Service Employees International Union, the nation's largest healthcare union, joined a home care worker and disability community advocates to testify before Congress in support of legislation that would close a loophole that denies home care workers overtime and minimum wage protections. Read more...

Another DREAM Deferred

Oct 24, 2007 - This afternoon, the Senate voted down the DREAM Act, a bill that would help immigrant children who attend college or serve in the military legalize their status. This vote exposes the failed leadership of Senate Democrats and Republicans, who have allowed nativist anti-immigrant hate speech to overwhelm reason on the immigration reform debate. Below is a statement by SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina responding to the failed cloture vote. Read more...

Hearings on Private Equity Ownership of Nursing Homes Open New Front for Embattled Buyout Industry

Oct 23, 2007 - The nation's largest healthcare workers union applauded U.S. Reps. John Dingell and Barney Frank today as they announced the first Congressional hearings on private equity ownership of nursing homes. The announcement today by the Chairmen of the House Energy & Commerce Committee and the House Financial Services Committee is the latest move by Congressional leaders this month to hold private equity firms accountable for the care, staffing, and conditions at nursing homes they own. Read more...

Child care providers across Maine vote to form a union

Oct 22, 2007 - Nearly 2,200 home-based child care providers across Maine now have a united voice for their profession, after voting in a statewide election to form their union with the Maine State Employees Association (MSEA)-SEIU Kids First. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY: Demonstration at Carlyle Group Offices Monday as Grassroots Caravan of Caregivers & Senior Advocates Arrives in D.C. to Speak Out for Improved Care, Staffing at Nation's Largest Nursing Home Chain

Oct 19, 2007 - With political concerns growing rapidly on Capitol Hill and in key states about the impact of private equity buyouts of nursing homes, a national caravan of caregivers and senior advocates will arrive in D.C. on Monday, Oct. 22, where they will hold a demonstration at the Pennsylvania Ave. headquarters of the Carlyle Group. Read more...

Complaint Against Fisher Island Corporations Challenges Racial Segregation and Abuse on Exclusive Private Island Off the Coast of South Beach

Oct 18, 2007 - In a case that harkens back to the civil rights lawsuits of the 1950's that ended racial segregation, 19 workers filed a class action complaint today against Fisher Island Holdings, Inc., Fisher Island Community Association, Inc., Fisher Island Club, Inc., and Fisher Island Community Association, LLC with the Miami-Dade County Equal Opportunity Board, charging that the policies and practices in effect on the Fisher Island Ferry Service that operates between the exclusive island to the mainland segregates Haitian, Hispanic, and African-American workers. Read more...

SEIU Applauds Bipartisan Leadership of Sen. Finance Committee in Push for Greater Oversight of Private Equity Takeovers of Nursing Homes

Oct 18, 2007 - The nation's largest healthcare workers union applauded the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Finance Committee today as it took new steps to hold private equity firms accountable for the care, staffing, and conditions at nursing homes they own. Read more...

SEIU Leaders Denounce Failure To Override SCHIP Veto, Vow To Continue Fight For Children's Healthcare

Oct 18, 2007 - Leaders of the largest healthcare union in the nation today blasted Members of Congress who refused to override President Bush's SCHIP veto, and pledged to continue fighting to win healthcare for 10 million uninsured children. Read more...

Hundreds of Nursing Home Workers From Across the Nation Rally for Improved Nursing Home Care

Oct 17, 2007 - Two members of the group went inside the shareholders meeting as proxies-SEIU District 1199 President Dave Regan and Carol Lafferty, a nursing aide at a Manor Care facility in Beckley, West Virginia. Regan addressed Manor Care management and shareholders, calling on them to make specific commitments to work with the Carlyle Group to improve care and ensure safe staffing as part of the deal. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY: Nursing Home Workers From Across the Nation to Rally in for Improved Nursing Home Care

Oct 17, 2007 - Nursing home workers and their supporters from across the nation are traveling to Toledo, Ohio Wednesday Oct. 17 to rally for improved care at the nation's largest nursing home chain as the shareholders of HCR Manor Care vote to approve a $6.3 billion buyout of the company by global buyout giant, The Carlyle Group. Read more...

Health Care Plays Key Role in Tsongas's Win

Oct 16, 2007 - "Tonight's win for Niki Tsongas isn't just a victory for voters in Massachusetts, it's a win for working families across the country,"said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger. "Voters in Massachusetts are not only sending a strong health care advocate to Washington, they're doing it just in time for her to cast a vote for a critically needed program." Read more...

SEIU Leaders Reiterate Endorsement Guidelines for Presidential Primary

Oct 15, 2007 - In response to the announcement of presidential endorsements at the state level by SEIU locals today, SEIU leaders restated the guidelines for endorsement agreed to by the International Executive Board last week. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY: SCHIP Vigil Tuesday, Oct. 16

Oct 15, 2007 - Hundreds of healthcare workers, parents, children, clergy, elected officials and concerned citizens will gather for a vigil near the Capitol this Tuesday, October 16, as part of a final push to win healthcare for nearly 10 million children. Read more...

How Much Taxpayer Money Has The Carlyle Group Taken from the U.S. Treasury?

Oct 10, 2007 - Just how much taxpayer money has the Carlyle Group taken from the U.S. Treasury? The answer is a mystery, but there is no question that buyout giant the Carlyle Group employs sophisticated financial strategies to turn taxpayer dollars into executive profits and avoid paying its fair share of taxes. Read more...

SEIU Launches Nationwide Campaign For Kids' Healthcare

Oct 09, 2007 - Thousands of healthcare workers, parents, children, faith leaders, and concerned citizens will take to the streets in communities across the country this week as part of a nationwide effort to win healthcare for nearly 10 million children. Read more...

Citing Strength of Presidential Field, SEIU Locals to Decide on Endorsement of Presidential Candidates by State

Oct 08, 2007 - Citing the strength of the presidential field on the key issues for working families, and the importance of the 2008 election on the future of America, SEIU local unions will decide on presidential primary endorsements on a state-by-state basis. Read more...

23 Arrested as Community Leaders, Students Engage in Non-Violent Act of Civil Disobedience, Protest Security Officers Being 'Left Out in the Cold' In Midst of Economic Boom

Oct 04, 2007 - With contract negotiations continuing for thousands of San Francisco Bay Area private security officers, elected leaders, labor leaders, clergy, students, and community supporters engaged in an act of non-violent civil disobedience today, during which 23 supporters were arrested when they occupied the intersection of Montgomery and Pine, located in the city's downtown financial district, for 45 minutes. Read more...

Bush NLRB Deals Ugly Blow to Workers and Employers

Oct 04, 2007 - Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement regarding the Bush NLRB's Dana Corp. decision: Read more...

Statement from Dennis Rivera, Chair of SEIU Healthcare Regarding Bush's Veto of Children's Healthcare

Oct 03, 2007 - Dennis Rivera, Chair of SEIU Healthcare, the nation's largest union of health care workers, today issued the following statement regarding President Bush's veto of the bipartisan SCHIP legislation: Read more...

Statement of SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger Regarding Bush Veto of Children's Healthcare

Oct 03, 2007 - Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU, the nation's largest union of health care workers, today issued the following statement regarding President Bush's veto of the bipartisan SCHIP legislation: Read more...

SEIU Launches Multi-State Grassroots Campaign Calling on the Carlyle Group To Put Care Above Profits in Buyout of Nation's Largest Nursing Home Chain

Oct 03, 2007 - In an effort to improve care at nursing homes, the nation's largest healthcare workers union today is launching a multi-state grassroots campaign calling on global buyout giant the Carlyle Group to put care above CEO profits in the $6.3 billion takeover of nursing home chain HCR Manor Care. Read more...

Nation's Largest Healthcare Workers Union Calls for Congressional Hearings into Private Equity Ownership of Nursing Homes

Oct 02, 2007 - Concerned that the trend toward private equity ownership of nursing homes is diverting taxpayer money to enriching top executives and buyout firms at the expense of quality care, the nation's largest healthcare workers union is calling on Congress to take action to improve the quality of care, and hold private equity firms accountable for their ownership of nursing homes. 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...

SEIU Urges President Bush to Reconsider Children's Healthcare Veto

Sep 27, 2007 - With Congress poised to approve legislation this week that would provide health coverage to nearly 10 million children, leaders of the nation's largest healthcare union today urge President Bush to reconsider his pledge to veto the bill. Read more...

Contract Talks Resume, Progress for Security Officers Today

Sep 26, 2007 - Contract negotiations for more than 4,000 Bay Area security officers resumed today with the security contractors committing to continue talks tomorrow and Friday. Security officers, on strike since Monday morning in protest of their employers' use of intimidation, harassment, and other unfair labor practices, made the decision to terminate for now their strike as a gesture of good faith and a nod to the progress made today at the bargaining table. Read more...

Giant Wackenhut Benefits From Small Business Act

Sep 26, 2007 - "Participation of the Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) in the Small Business Administration 8(a) program has been troubling,"according to testimony by Mr. Michael L. Barrera, President & CEO, United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, today. Read more...

Media Advisory - Day 3: San Francisco Security Officers' Strike Continues

Sep 26, 2007 - As contract talks for more than 4,000 Bay Area security officers resume today, workers are entering the third day of the first strike among private security officers in the history of San Francisco. Read more...

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Passes Resolution in Support of Security Officers' Strike

Sep 25, 2007 - With private security officers employed by Securitas, ABM, and Universal Protection Services in the second day of their historic strike, Bay Area security officers won another nod of approval from the city's elected leaders when the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution today in support of the workers' decision to call a strike. Read more...

Child care providers across Maryland vote to form a union

Sep 25, 2007 - Nearly 6,000 home-based child care providers across Maryland now have a united voice for their profession, after voting in a statewide election to form their union with SEIU Kids First. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY: Day 2 - Support for San Francisco Security Officers' Strike Goes National

Sep 25, 2007 - On the second day of the first-ever security officers' strike in San Francisco, union security officers and other supporters in Los Angeles, Miami, Washington, D.C., and Seattle are planning delegations today to Morgan Stanley offices in their own cities. Read more...

New York Times Exposes Harm to Seniors after Private Equity Buyouts of Nursing Homes

Sep 24, 2007 - A stunning front page expose by the New York Times Sunday details how cuts to staffing and operations at nursing homes bought by private equity firms across the country have enriched top executives and buyout firms but left residents worse off. Read more...

First-Ever Strike of Security Officers in San Francisco

Sep 24, 2007 - Security officers that work for some of the nation's largest security companies including Securitas, ABM and Universal Protection Services are going on strike in San Francisco today to protest their employers' use of intimidation, harassment, and other unlawful practices. Read more...

MEDIA ADVISORY - Day 1: San Francisco Security Officers on Strike

Sep 24, 2007 - Security officers that work for some of the nation's largest security companies including Securitas, ABM and Universal Protection Services are going on strike today to defend their rights - the first strike among private security officers in the history of San Francisco. The companies have been violating security officers' rights during an ongoing labor dispute over industry standards. Read more...

SEIU testifica ante Subcomite Judicial de la Cmara contra alza ilegal de tarifas de servicios de inmigracion de USCIS

Sep 20, 2007 - Hoy, Rhadames Rivera, vicepresidente de SEIU Healthcare Local 1199 UHE, testific ante el Subcomit de la Cmara de Representantes sobre Ciudadana, Refugiados, Seguridad Fronteriza, Inmigracin y Ley Internacional sobre el impacto negativo que el alza de tarifas del Departamento de Servicios de Ciudadana e Inmigracin (USCIS) de Estados Unidos tendr sobre sus afiliados inmigrantes. Read more...

SEIU Testifies Before House Judiciary Subcommittee Against Illegal USCIS Immigrant Service Fee Hike

Sep 20, 2007 - Today, Rhadames Rivera, Vice President of SEIU Healthcare Local 1199 UHE, testified before the House Subcommittee on Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law on the negative impact that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee hike will have on the union's immigrant members. Read more...

Transcript: SEIU Testifies Before House Judiciary Subcommittee Against Illegal USCIS Immigrant Service Fee Hike

Sep 20, 2007 - Today, Rhadames Rivera, Vice President of SEIU Healthcare Local 1199 UHE, testified before the House Subcommittee on Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law on the negative impact that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fee hike will have on the union's immigrant members. Rivera's full testimony follows. Read more...

Home Care Workers to Get Fair Wages Under New Congressional Proposal

Sep 19, 2007 - The Service Employees International Union, the nation's largest healthcare union, applauded the introduction of federal legislation to close a loophole that denies home care workers overtime and minimum wage protections. Read more...

Janitors Seek Rare Injunction Against Nation's Second Largest Mall Owner To Stop Rights Abuses

Sep 19, 2007 - Janitors in California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, and Washington are seeking an extraordinary remedy against General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP) and two of its cleaning contractors as the companies face new charges that they illegally co-erced workers in order to dissuade them from forming a union. Read more...

SEIU Members and Kids to Congress: Money for Healthcare, Not War!

Sep 18, 2007 - SEIU members and their children overtook the Senate Swamp today with purple t-shirts and red wagons to deliver an urgent message to the White House and Congress: fund children's healthcare, not the war in Iraq. Read more...

Janitors Win More than $1 Million in Lost Pay from UPS and Cleaning Contractors

Sep 17, 2007 - Almost 500 mostly Latino janitors who cleaned UPS facilities, hotels, and other properties in Illinois and Texas have won a $1.2 million settlement in the latest in a growing number of lawsuits involving the failure of janitorial contractors to pay their employees according to federal overtime and minimum wage laws. Read more...

Five Democratic Presidential Candidates to Address SEIU Workers

Sep 17, 2007 - Members of the nation's fastest-growing union will be reunited today with the presidential candidate who "walked a day in their shoes"at SEIU's Member Political Action Conference. In addition to speaking to close to 2,000 SEIU members from 35 states, the presidential candidates will meet informally with a smaller group of SEIU members as part of their "hang time." Read more...

Statement Regarding Federal Reserve Decision to Forgo Public Hearing and Unilaterally Approve Bank of America-LaSalle Merger in Chicago

Sep 14, 2007 - The Save Chicago Jobs and Community Investment Coalition is extremely disappointed in the decision by the Federal Reserve to forgo a public hearing and approve the acquisition of LaSalle Bank by Bank of America today. Read more...

Security Officers at Philadelphia Historic Sites Raise Concerns About Wackenhut at Community Hearing

Sep 13, 2007 - Six years after the World Trade Center was attacked in New York City, security officers who guard Philadelphia historic sites testified about their poor working conditions at a community field hearing held yesterday. The hearing was chaired by Congressman Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.) at Christ Church Community House just blocks from the Independence Hall and Liberty Bell sites. Read more...

Statement of Concern About Rising ATM Fees

Sep 12, 2007 - We are deeply concerned by Bank of America's plan to raise fees for non-customers at many of its ATMs to $3 per transaction-the highest in the country. Read more...

Security officers question impact of inadequate training, high turnover rates on public safety

Sep 11, 2007 - As the nation prepares to commemorate the tragedies of September 11, private security officers around the country that protect commercial high-rise office buildings, ports, universities, government buildings, public transportation, banks, and other critical sites are raising concerns about the impact of inadequate training standards on public safety. Read more...

SEIU Members to Hold Political Action Conference in Washington

Sep 10, 2007 - Six leading candidates for president will address close to 2,000 of SEIU's most politically active members at the Member Political Action Conference (MPAC) on Monday, September 17, 2007. Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger will present SEIU's plan for electing a pro-worker president in 2008. Read more...

Over 2,000 Maine Child Care Providers to Vote in First-Ever Union Election

Sep 06, 2007 - Over 2,000 family child care providers announced today that they have majority support to file for Maine's first-ever union election for home-based child care. Read more...

6,000 Maryland child care providers to vote in first-ever union election

Sep 05, 2007 - Nearly 6,000 family child care providers could soon win a stronger voice for affordable, quality child care. Beginning Friday, providers will vote by mail in Maryland's first union election for home-based child care. Read more...

Senator Biden Walks A Day In The Shoes Of SEIU Custodian in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Aug 30, 2007 - Today Senator Joe Biden "walked a day in the shoes"of SEIU member Marshall Clemons, taking part in SEIU's program to ensure that presidential candidates experience firsthand what life is like for working people. Biden joined Clemons during his job as a custodian at Harding Middle School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he helped to rebuild a boiler and perform other maintenance tasks. Read more...

Non-profit Research Center Finds That Nation's Second Largest Mall Owner Drains Hundreds of Millions of Dollars From Local Governments and Schools

Aug 29, 2007 - The nation's second largest mall owner, General Growth Properties (GGP), has pursued what appears to be a systematic business strategy that has drained hundreds of millions of dollars from local communities and schools across the United States. According to a study released today by Good Jobs First, a non-profit research center that focuses on economic development issues, General Growth Properties has taken at least $200 million from local government and school district coffers over the last ten years, contributing to fiscal problems that in some communities have resulted in teacher layoffs, larger class sizes and cuts in other services. Read more...

Hurricane Katrina, Two Years Later

Aug 29, 2007 - SEIU President Andy Stern issued the following statement on the second anniversary of the storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast: 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...

Testimony of SEIU President Andy Stern Before Senate Health Policy Committee

Jan 10, 2007 - Andy Stern, President of SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in North America, delivered the following testimony today before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee regarding the state of America's health care system: Read more...

More than 49,000 Illinois Child Care Providers Choose SEIU As Their Union to Improve Services for 200,000 Children

Apr 07, 2005 - More than 49,000 Illinois home child care providers have voted overwhelmingly to join Local 880 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The ballots were counted by the American Arbitration Association Thursday after a three-week vote-by-mail election. Read more...