New National Healthcare Union Is Our Voice for Quality Care
In late June, more than 2,000 healthcare workers met in
Baltimore
to
launch SEIU Healthcare, our new national union with more than 1 million
healthcare members from 38 SEIU locals, speaking with one strong voice for good
jobs and quality care.
SEIU Healthcare will work to unite more
healthcare workers, raise standards, and fix America's broken healthcare system.
Our first big effort is to
collect a million petition signatures urging Congress to
provide health insurance to uninsured children.
More than 9 million
children in America have no health insurance. They have no access to regular
checkups, their parents struggle to afford doctors' visits when they are sick,
and they often go without care. Congress can provide coverage to millions of
uninsured kids by increasing funding for the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP) by $50 billion.