SEIU Healthcare Michigan MPO's help lead Obama to victory!

SEIU Healthcare Michigan members from across the state joined together to help Barack Obama wrap up the Democratic nomination and are now leading the fight to ensure we have a pro-worker President in the White House next year! Hospital, nursing home and home care workers are on front lines of this critial campaign, whether its by knocking doors, making phone calls or getting active through their local Political Action Teams, SEIU Healthcare Michigan members are leading the way.

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2008 Convention in Puerto Rico

Our 2008 Convention in Puerto Rico was an amazing culmination of months of debate, discussion and planning that produced an exciting new vision of what we will strive to achieve together over the next four years. The commitment, respect and enthusiasm of our 1,200 SEIU Healthcare delegates throughout the week was remarkable, and speaks volumes to the democratic strength and vibrancy of our union.

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Delegates Elect New International Executive Board

 SEIU member delegates closed our 2008 Convention with the election of 23 Vice Presidents and 37 Executive Board members, including 20 percent of them new members, to lead the union for its 2008-2012 term.

Nine members of the board are rank-and-file SEIU members.

The 2008-2012 SEIU International Executive Board is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse bodies elected in the history of the labor movement, and many of its members came from the rank-and-file. It includes representation from across SEIU's three divisions and all parts of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

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A Tribute To Our Brother And Friend, David Smith

A lifetime caring for others

David Smith was part of the 40,000 home care workers who joined SEIU in 2005.

He immediately took an interest in the Union and in the contract campaign we launched after the organizing drive ended. Initially however, David was unsure of how to get involved because he couldn't read well enough to read the newsletters and other union information mailed to his house.

One of the first times we had the pleasure to meet him, he had come into our office. We had recently mailed out a survey to all of our home care members asking them to identify the issues that were most important to them (wages, healthcare, providing the best care for their clients).

David couldn't read the survey well enough to respond but wanted his voice to be heard none the less. So he brought the survey into the office with him and asked one of our organizers to read it to him so he could
respond.

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