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Healthcare Workers Give a Loud YES to New, Strong Healthcare Union

Members Approve New Union By 97%-3% Margin in Large Turnout Vote

Nearly 13,000 healthcare workers voted to unite into the country’s largest healthcare union local, SEIU Healthcare Illinois Indiana. The votes for unification and a new constitution still has to be certified by SEIU President Andy Stern; that action is expected in June or early July.



Illinois Healthcare Workers to Unite
When nursing home, hospital, home and child care workers vote this spring to unify all Illinois healthcare workers into a single, powerful voice for change, the new union will become the largest, most powerful healthcare local in the country.

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Members lobby in Springfield for healthcare funds

Senator Schoenberg updates members on the status of the State Hospital Provider Tax that would release millions of dollars to safety-net hospitals.

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County passes budget, no job cuts

Town Hall Mtg 2-7-08

After months of operating without a 2008 budget, the Cook County Board passed a budget that does not threaten jobs of hospital workers. SEIU Healthcare Local 20 President Byron Hobbs had called for not only a budget solution, but restoration of last year’s cuts to healthcare delivery services.

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Doctors vote to join union

Attending physicians of Provident Hospital voted to form a union with the National Doctors Council of the Service Employees International Union and SEIU Healthcare Local 20, which represents thousands of hospital workers in Chicago and Northwest Indiana.

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Our vision is to build a movement where the voices of healthcare workers echo throughout Chicagoland to call for social and economic justice. Led by our members, this movement assures that care is accessible and affordable to all and workers see one another realizing their hopes and dreams at work and beyond.