Neal Bisno, Executive Vice President

Neal Bisno was first elected as International Executive Vice President in May of 2016. Neal oversees SEIU’s work across the Midwest and Pennsylvania to support SEIU local unions in building worker and political power, in service of SEIU’s goals of organizing one million new workers over the next decade and writing new rules for Unions for All workers.

Neal also oversees SEIU’s organizing program, which supports not yet union workers - rideshare drivers, hospital workers, home care and child care workers, higher education professionals, security officers, airport workers, and others - in forming unions to improve their lives, enhance the quality of care and services they provide, and expand our democracy.

Prior to leading SEIU’s work in organizing and in the Midwest and Pennsylvania,, Neal spearheaded SEIU's State Power program, a project that supported SEIU local unions in key battleground states in unifying their organizing and political work to build worker power. The program’s accomplishments included the establishment of Minnesota's groundbreaking Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board, which is lifting standards for 25,000 frontline workers and improving care for seniors across the state.

In 2017-18, Neal oversaw the creation of Together We Rise, the union’s initiative to prepare for the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus decision and other threats under the first Trump Administration, including helping SEIU local unions successfully execute the largest internal organizing campaign in the union’s history.

First drawn to the labor movement as a student activist in the 1980s, Neal has been working in the union movement since 1989. Prior to his election as an International Officer, Neal served in a variety of leadership roles and ultimately as president of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, representing nearly 45,000 nurses and healthcare workers in hospitals, nursing homes, home and community based services, and state facilities.During Neal’s tenure at SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, the local union grew dramatically in size and strength through a relentless focus on organizing and by driving long-term strategy to build political power. Neal was the architect of Pennsylvania’s's law banning forced overtime for healthcare workers, helped lead the campaign to expand Medicaid for uninsured Pennsylvanians, and supported 20,000 Pennsylvania home care workers of all races and backgrounds in winning a first-ever voice for themselves and their consumers.

Neal is motivated by a deep conviction that building worker power through cross-racial solidarity is the key to confronting corporate power, dismantling structural racism, and achieving a just society where all people are respected and all communities can thrive. He is a resident of Pittsburgh, where he lives with his partner, and is the proud father of an adult son.