Healthcare Workers Uniting

Minnesota Caregivers Win Contract With HealthPartners

Elsie Urman

More than 1,500 SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members at 29 HealthPartners clinics in the Twin Cities metro area have ratified a new three-year contract. In addition to protecting their health benefits with no givebacks, and securing annual wage increases, the contract calls for the formation of a patient care committee to which clinic workers can bring disputes with doctors and administrators over staffing and safety.

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Watch Out: Here Comes SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana!

Three SEIU Healthcare locals, all based in Chicago, are about to join forces to form SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana. Locals 4, 20, and 880 have, until now, represented nursing home, hospital, homecare and childcare workers. Early this Spring, all of them will be in a brand new 90,000 – member Union.

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U of Miami Med School, SEIU Healthcare Florida Ratify Landmark Contract

The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and SEIU Healthcare Florida have ratified a union contract for more than 1,000 healthcare employees, including nurses, respiratory therapists, dietary workers, custodial and other direct patient caregivers at the University of Miami Hospital.

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2007 Highlights

UHW members at Tenet Los Alamitos

Our Locals produced so much good work in the past six months that we could not possibly list it all. Here, however, are some highlights of what we've done together since last July.

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