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  • SEIU Endorses Candidates for 2008
    7/2/2008
  • Members Interview Candidates Across Wisconsin
    5/21/2008
  • Everyone Deserves a Chance at the American Dream
    5/20/2008
  • Working Together to Solve the Healthcare Crises
    4/25/2008
  • Health Care Professionals Seek Mandatory Overtime Ban to Protect Patient Care
    3/13/2008
    The Senate Committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs voted yesterday 3-1 in favor of SB 512, which seeks to ban mandatory overtime for health care professionals after hearing testimony from nurses represented by SEIU Healthcare District 1199.
  • Wisconsin Assembly Fails Working Families
    10/18/2007
    Out-of-state, anti-government extremists pumped money into a rally held at the state capitol yesterday to provide cover for Assembly Republicans who are preventing adoption of Wisconsin’s long overdue state budget.
  • Legislators Urged to Pass Worker-Friendly Budget
    9/27/2007
    SEIU members asked their own legislators to urge Conference Committee members to negotiate a budget that protects collective bargaining rights, provides more access to quality health care through the Governor’s BadgerCare Plus, and adequately funds the public services that make Wisconsin great.
  • SEIU Applauds the CHAMP Act
    8/29/2007
    SEIU joined Representative Ron Kind today at Franciscan Skemp Healthcare in La Crosse to show appreciation for his work on the Children’s Health & Medicare Protection Act of 2007 (CHAMP Act). The CHAMP Act, recently passed by the House of Representatives, will expand health care coverage to millions of kids while also expanding and protecting Medicare coverage for the millions of seniors who depend on it.
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton Walks a Day in Our Shoes
    8/22/2007
    As the fifth presidential candidate to take up SEIU members’ challenge to “walk in their shoes,” Senator Hillary Clinton last Monday joined Las Vegas nurse Michelle Estrada during her shift in a medical/surgical unit. She then had dinner at Estrada’s home with her and her family.
  • "Working Families in Wisconsin are Suffering."
    The SEIU Wisconsin State Council has joined with the Wisconsin Health Care Reform Campaign at State Senate hearings across the state to demand quality affordable health care.
     
    SEIU is working both in Wisconsin, and nationally to fix our broken health care system.
     
    “Working families in Wisconsin are suffering,” stated Dian Palmer. “It is unacceptable that insurance companies and large hospital systems make billions, while parents are being forced to choose between necessary medications and food for their children.”

    The proposal, The Health Care Action Plan, introduced by registered nurse and State Senator Judy Robson (D-Beloit), will require the Legislature to pass a comprehensive health care plan by January 1, 2008.  This plan must provide health cover