Join SEIU Healthcare Michigan

How Can a Union Help?

By uniting with others who do the same type of work, you will have a stronger voice on the job and in your community—and you can help create a better future for yourself and all Americans.

Here are five good reasons to join your co-workers in uniting to form a union:

# 1 – Working together, union members have the strength to win better wages, affordable health care, a secure retirement, and safer workplaces.

# 2 – The "union advantage" is substantial. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, union members are much more likely to have health benefits and pensions.

# 3 – For people of color and women workers, the union impact is even greater. Women workers who are union members earn nearly $9,000 a year more than their non-union counterparts. For African-American workers, the union differential is also about $9,000, and for Latino workers the yearly advantage is more than $11,000.

# 4 – In addition to helping workers win better wages and benefits, unions help all workers by giving working families a stronger voice in our communities, in the political arena, and in the global economy.

# 5 – By joining together, we can build the strength to hold elected officials accountable, stop the "race to the bottom" by employers who cut wages and benefits in favor of bigger profits, and win improvements such as affordable, quality health care for all.

What Being Union Means

Quality of care. Working together we can address staffing issues, decrease turnover rates, improve worker satisfaction and gain the tools necessary to raise patient care standards.

A voice at work. When you join with your co-workers, your employer has to negotiate with you as a group. Together, you have more power than you would have as an individual to demand a fair wage, sick pay, vacation days, and improved working conditions at your job. Once you ratify your contract, your employer cannot make any changes without negotiating and reaching an agreement with all of you first. By uniting, homecare workers can also have a voice in the way the Home Help system is run.

Healthcare for you and your family. Healthcare workers who have dedicated their lives to helping others should have access to quality healthcare for themselves and their families. But every day more and more employers are cutting these benefits. By uniting with the more than 55,000 members of SEIU Healthcare Michigan you can join the fight for family healthcare coverage.

Click here to join SEIU Healthcare Michigan!