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Take Back Labor Day - Watch Now!

The Take Back Labor Day road trip culminated yesterday, Labor Day, as SEIU hosted the "Take Back Labor Festival" in St. Paul, just across the Mississippi River from the site of the Republican National Convention which began the same day.

Watch the concert below.


2,000 Technical and Service Workers at the Mayo Clinic and other Southeast Minnesota Facilities Unite with Us

Workers at 4 hospitals vote by a 95% majority to join with us in SEIU Healthcare Minnesota

On Wednesday, August 20th, 2,000 technical and service workers at the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals across Southeast Minnesota voted YES! to be a part of our movement for working families in Minnesota.

Together, we are now more than 17,000 strong for quality, affordable healthcare, a secure retirement, wages that can support a family, and strong communities.

Fairview Southdale LPNs Speak Out Against Age Discrimination

Nurses File Age Discrimination Claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

SEIU and its Partners in the Healthcare for America NOW! Coalition Present "Health Insurance Rules"


Can you imagine anything more absurd than insurance company execs leading a 'protest' about the fact that people can't get insurance? Talk about chutzpah. But then, the insurance industry is used to making up it's own rules about what's ok.

Check out this video which everyone on the Internet is watching -- it shows them in their full glory.

After watching the video, click here to tell our politicians that The first order of business for the new President and Congress in 2009 should be to pass health care legislation that guarantees quality, affordable health care for all.

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Anti-Free Choice Ad Exposed

WCCO's Pat Kessler debunks a deceptive ad put out by big business that criticizes Al Franken for standing up for worker's rights

Justice for All. Pass it On.

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14 SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members stand together with nearly 2,000 delegates at the 2008 SEIU International Convention in setting “Justice for All” plan for our 2 million member union

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SEIU Healthcare Members On Hand as Obama Speaks to Working Families in St. Paul

Presumptive Democratic Nominee Will Stand With Working People to Bring the Change We Need

ObamaJune 3rd was a historic day for our country and our Union. 

SEIU-endorsed Barack Obama became the first African American in the history of our country to be the presidential nominee of one of the major parties.

And SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members were on hand to witness history...






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Barry Washington, Jr.

Abbott Northwestern

June 3rd  will be a day I always look back on and say I was there for something that my Granddad said he would never see.  For him to get a chance to see this great change in our country makes me feel like there is HOPE.  So, I am very happy we as SEIU members backed Barack Obama for President of the United States.


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Marty Fossen & Kelvin Clark, Sr.

Abbott Northwestern

We as union members are headed in the same direction as Barack Obama and that’s change.

--Kelvin Clark, Sr.

I was so happy to be a part of June 3rd’s historic event in St. Paul, we need change in America and I believe Obama is the change that will serve us all, union and non-union across America.

--Marty Fossen

Click here to stand with other working families and help elect Barack Obama


Bolder, Stronger, United: First Gathering of the Newly Elected Executive Board of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota

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Natalie Jackson, Aspen

Our first meeting as a new Executive Board was groundbreaking.

Collectively, we made a commitment to each other and every member of this union that we will act with clarity and purpose to win for workers.


“You have no idea how different this meeting was from previous board meetings.  This is a collection of member leaders with a commitment and purpose to winning for workers that I haven’t seen before.”

--Natalie Jackson, Trustee, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota Executive Board, Aspen

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U.S. Senate Candidate Al Franken Walks in the Shoes of SEIU Nursing Home Worker Ulysses Bridges

Walk a Day in My Shoes--Bridges & Franke

Al Franken Walks a Day in Ulysses Bridges' Shoes

As part of SEIU’s program to ensure politicians experience firsthand what life is like for working Americans, U.S. Senate Candidate Al Franken worked alongside Certified Nurse Assistant and SEIU Healthcare Minnesota member Ulysses Bridges to see what a day of caring for nursing home patients is really like.

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Watch what Ulysses and Al Had to Say About the Day


Al Franken Walks a Day in Ulysses Bridges' Shoes

Get Out of the Passenger Seat - It's Our Time to Drive

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Lori Theim-Busch

No matter your political persuasion, we can all agree that today's national dialogue on the future direction of our country is high stakes. If we expect these presidential candidates to start offering solutions, it's up to us to push them.

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