SEIU United Healthcare Workers West

Infobox Union
name= SEIU UHW
country= United States
affiliation=
members= 140,000
full_name= SEIU United Health Care Workers West
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founded= In the 1930s
current=
head= SEIU
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
merged_into=
office= Oakland, California
people= Sal Rosselli, president
website= [http://www.seiu-uhw.org/index.html www.seiu-uhw.org]
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The SEIU United Health Care Workers West (SEIU UHW)is a statewide local union of the Service Employees International Union in California in the United States. It has a membership of 140,000.

UHW was created by the merger of two SEIU local unions: Local 250 in Northern California and Local 399 in Southern California. The larger of those two locals, Local 250, began when workers at San Francisco General Hospital, who were inspired by the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, organized a union at their hospital in 1934.

The President of the union is Sal Rosselli, who has been the president for nearly 20 years. UHW is headquarted in Oakland, California and has offices statewide. UHW is an industrial union representing all classifications of health care workers in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health agencies as well as homecare workers. UHW is one of the fastest growing unions in the nation and is very diverse, with its members speaking more than 50 languages.

Recent victories of the union include winning a six-week strike against Sutter Health in San Francisco, the conclusion of successful negotiations with Catholic Healthcare West,a successful win of an election at O'Connor Woods Retirement Community in Stockton, California and a statewide contract victory with HCA, the nation's largest hospital company. Most of the union's current organizing work is being carried out in Southern California.

External links

* [http://www.seiu-uhw.org/index.html Official site]

Articles

* [http://www.clintreilly.com/?p=185 The Battle for Labor's Soul] by Clint Reilly
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601920.html A Leader His Critics And A Union Divided] from the Washington Post