About Us

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is 2 million working people and 50,000 retirees united to improve services and our communities throughout North America.

SEIU’s history began at Local 1 in the early 1900s when a group of janitors working on the South Side of Chicago decided to organize. Since then we have made great strides. SEIU Local 1 members are working in 11 cities in seven states, and our jobs are some of the highest paying in our industries. Local 1 unites more than 50,000 workers in Texas and throughout Mid-America. SEIU Local 1 security officers, food service workers and janitors are working with community leaders to advocate for the quality services the public deserves and the good jobs our communities need.

SEIU is the fastest-growing union in North America. SEIU members are winning better wages, health care, and more secure jobs at home, while uniting their strength with their counterparts around the world to help ensure that workers, not just corporations and CEOs, benefit from today’s global economy. Focused on uniting workers in three sectors to improve their lives and the services they provide, SEIU is:

• The largest health care union, with 900,000 members in the field, including nurses, LPNs, doctors, lab technicians, nursing home workers, home care workers
• The largest property services union, with 225,000 members in the building cleaning and security industries, including janitors, door men and women
• The largest public services union, with 850,000 local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers, and child care providers

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Chicago Janitors Rally for Good Jobs

In the News

• Estás Viendo: Decenas de mujeres protestan por bajos salarios [Univision Chicago]
• Union Janitors March For Fair Wages, Equal Pay For Women [Progress Illinois]
• Fair Wages, Equal Pay – SEIU Local 1 Rally at Willis Tower [Progress Illinois]
• Chicago Airport Workers Seek Fairness, Unionization [In These Times]
• Janitors Rally for Wage Increase (The Columbia Chronicle)
• Airport Workers, Scholars, and Clergy Rally at O’Hare in Response to Shocking UIC Study
• Which Side Are You On? Disenchanted with the Democratic Party, unions threaten secession in 2012 [In These Times]
• Los conserjes protestan frente a Chase Bank por su contrato laboral (Vivelo Hoy)
• Chicago: Trabajadores de limpieza marchan por nuevo contrato (AOL Noticias)
• Rally for Fair Wages – ABC
• Janitors Protest – CLTV
• Rally for Better Jobs – NBC
• Janitors Protest – WGN
• Conserjes toman la calle por un nuevo contrato de trabajo (Vivelo Hoy)
• SEIU Local 1 rally – WGNO
• Janitors Rally for Good Jobs – WQAD
• Grounded by tips [The Chicago Reporter]
• Airport Workers Say Pay Is Illegally Low [Huffington Post]
• Happy Holidays from the 1 percent [The Milwaukee Community Journal]
• Airport firm no longer in subsidy program [Houston Chronicle]
• Chicago groups, Occupiers protest at Biggert’s D.C. office [MySuburbanLife.com]
• Union protests janitorial change at downtown office building [BizTimes.com]
• Union rallies in support of airport workers [Houston Chronicle]
• Occupy Chicago demonstrators block LaSalle Street bridge, Loop streets [Chicago Tribune]
• SEIU President Mary Kay Henry: Should the demands of Occupy Wall Street be Met? [Interview on MSNBC]

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