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SEIU Healthcare is the national union for nurses and healthcare workers, and part of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Launched in June of 2007, SEIU Healthcare unites more than one million nurses and healthcare workers within the hospital, nursing home, and homecare industries.

Who We Are Our national union is dedicated to ensuring the highest quality of care for every patient, fixing our broken healthcare system, and improving the lives of healthcare workers, their families, and their communities.

Working together, nurses and healthcare workers are leading a national effort to:
  • Heal our broken healthcare system;
  • Ensure that our patients receive the highest quality of care;
  • Establish safe staffing levels for all hospitals;
  • Improve the lives of healthcare workers throughout this country.

 

I now have such a great perspective on issues that impact healthcare workers, not only at [my hospital], but in every healthcare facility and home in America. any of our issues are, sadly, very common in this field. However, I am confident that by everyone working together…we can improve the overall quality of patient care, as well as working conditions, across America. People who work in healthcare, in any capacity, like to help people. We are, by nature, a caring, kind, and generous group of people who are depended upon by the young, the elderly, the sick, and the dying. We each have a gift which is to be shared, and so we must do so by working together to ensure the highest quality of life and well-being for our fellow human beings."

– Sherri L. Bradley, Health Unit Coordinator, Pediatrics, Pocono Medical Center, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania

Before SEIU: Like 22,000 other personal care attendants in Massachusetts, Hertenza Spense earns $10.84 an hour and receives no health benefits and no paid time off.

With SEIU: Hertenza has worked to mobilize other personal care attendants to join the campaign and improve PCA jobs. She is a new member of the PCA bargaining committee and began negotiating a contract for higher wages and health coverage. With a union contract, Hertenza hopes to take time off for the first time in decades.

"I’m looking forward to taking my first day off in 22 years."
– Hertenza Spense, Personal Care Attendant (PCA), Lynn, Massachusetts