SEIU Local 509

At over 23,000 members and growing, SEIU Local 509 is the union for Massachusetts health and human service workers and educators.

[MassBudget @MassBudget]

More than half of renters in Massachusetts have household incomes below $75,000 per year. This has caused many of these renters to be burdened by the cost of rent (considered to be more than 30% of household income).

[SEIU @SEIU]

As working people, we MUST fight back.

SEIU members are rising to the occasion, and demanding Palantir stop its collaboration with ICE. It is essential for our freedom at work and at home, and this letter is just the beginning.

[SEIU Local 509 @SEIU509]

SEIU 509 was proud to be at the Boston Pride Parade with our SEIU union siblings! 💪🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ rights are workers' rights. And this #PrideMonth, we're making that crystal clear—at work and in our communities.

[SEIU @SEIU]

Congress left for recess without passing the federal budget bill. Welcome them back with a clear message: we need #HealthcareNotHate!

Join us for Seven Days in June and demand Congress fund healthcare, not more ICE cruelty and abuse. https://t.co/mOBujilstz

[Illinois Drivers Alliance @DriversIllinois]

HISTORY MADE! The Rideshare Drivers’ Union Bill passed both chambers and will now head to the Governor’s desk to be signed into law. 100,000 drivers can now form a union and collectively bargain for higher wages, safety protections and more!

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

Happy Pride from America’s unions! We’re wishing the LGBTQIA+ community a joyful and safe Pride Month.

Unions are for everyone, and the labor movement will keep fighting to make sure everyone can be their true selves, on and off the job 🏳️‍🌈✊

[SEIU @SEIU]

This is what worker power looks like! Rideshare drivers organized, built power, refused to be ignored, and fought for a fair share of the wealth working people create. #UnionsForAll

[SEIU Local 509 @SEIU509]

@UAW @AFLCIO @UAWRegion1 Solidarity!!

[SEIU @SEIU]

#EidMubarak to working people celebrating around the world! #1u

[April Verrett @SEIUPres]

For years, rideshare drivers were told to accept less.
This week, 70k MA rideshare drivers proved what workers already know: corporate power is not untouchable when working people organize.
Congrats to the App Drivers Union. This is not the finish line. It’s the starting line.

[SEIU Local 509 @SEIU509]

🎉 VICTORY! After months of petition gathering, lobbying, and a May Day lunchtime picket–DCF Central workers have won back overtime on transportation! When we fight, we win.

[SEIU @SEIU]

This is what worker power looks like! Today, the MA App Drivers Union became the first statewide union to win recognition & the right to negotiate with Uber & Lyft. The largest private sector workforce to win union recognition since Ford autoworkers in 1941!

MA drivers are showing the country what’s possible. Working people will win money, power & respect.

[SEIU Local 509 @SEIU509]

📢 Calling all Medford activists! We have a real chance to improve working conditions for @32BJSEIU building services workers. Urge your city councilors to pass a pro-worker ordinance in Medford today: https://t.co/LoNjVsYW2g

[SEIU Local 509 @SEIU509]

Better Living Community workers are purpling up at their worksites! 💜 Many BCL workers have been providing care for the Greater New Bedford area for over 20 years and deserve a fair contract that includes fair wage increases and stronger benefits for all. #1u

[SEIU Local 521 @SEIU521]

🚨 UNION VICTORY 🚨 400+ healthcare workers @ Planned Parenthood Mar Monte from Bakersfield to Oakland, voted by supermajority to form their union with SEIU Local 521 ✊🏽💜 Workers are organizing to protect patients, defend care, and strengthen reproductive healthcare.

[SEIU Local 509 @SEIU509]

Rideshare drivers keep our communities moving, but Uber & Lyft drivers are still denied the basic right to form a union!

Tell your legislator: Stand with working people, not billion-dollar corporations. Vote YES on the Rideshare Drivers’ Union Bill: https://t.co/F6lX4chlBn

[SEIU @SEIU]

Big shoutout to more than 5,000 Penn State faculty members who just WON their union! Faculty members across all ranks and departments, across race and immigration statuses, tenured and contingent, full-time and part-time, at Penn State University Park and across the Commonwealth Campuses just achieved a historic victory. When we fight, we WIN! #UnionsForAll

[SEIU Local 509 @SEIU509]

Lesley faculty stood united and won strong wage increases, higher minimum salaries, workload protections, & limits on the maximum class size increases over the life of their contract.

When we fight, we win! (2/2)

[SEIU Local 509 @SEIU509]

This is what worker power looks like ✊ After nearly two years of negotiations, collective actions, a two-day strike, and growing community support—@lesley_u Core faculty have reached a tentative agreement! (1/2)

[April Verrett @SEIUPres]

Democracy has to show up where workers clock in, not just where voters cast ballots.
When workers organize, bargain and win power on the job, we don’t just raise wages. We strengthen democracy itself.
That’s why we say #UnionsForAll
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