SERVICE EMPLOYERS INTERNATIONAL UNION

LOCAL 200 UNITED

MARIST COLLGE CHAPTER

SEIU Local 200United

Together, in union, we fight to create a more just and humane society for all working families. We are a diverse group of working people in NY, VT, and PA. We plow roads, clean schools, cook meals, and so much more. We are janitors, nurses, professors, and caregivers.

SEIU’s new international president looks to help end poverty-wage work in America

April Verrett, the newly elected international president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is ready to come out the gate running––or, at least, organizing. 

Verrett says she plans to lead SEIU in a campaign of helping to unionize up to a million new workers over the next 10 years.

Talking with people about unions and helping them to understand that joining a worker’s organization is a way to build collective power is part of Verrett’s progressive stance. She said that “ultimately, as an organizer, I want to be able to say I did something to help end poverty and poverty-wage work in America.”

SEIU’s ‘Fight for $15 and a Union’ Rebrands Itself Simply As ‘Fight For A Union’

The SEIU’s 2009 blueprint to unionize fast-food workers through a “living wage” has returned to its roots.