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Sue Hammond
Was when the candidate that I invited to our union meeting came and spoke. I also was very honored to be invited to see Hillary Clinton speak in Seattle.
Elissa Underwood
People who have signed up out of a certain obligation, but then they get so inspired that they sign up for another shift on their own.
Montique Thompson
My proudest moment was signing up my co -workers up to be full members. We are at 100%. I feel most proud because it has never been done at Centinela Skilled Hospital, Los Angeles.
Ruby Olivas
After my first shift as a phone bank leader, when I realized I have what it takes to do this work. I’m a very self-critical person and had some doubts coming into this experience. After the f...
Sharron Pasion
My phone bank lead partner and I found out that we work really well together. We work on the same shift at the hospital, but we have different roles so we don’t work together there. We found ...
Shannon
The Fight for 15 Assembly, both in the preparation and with the outcome of the fast-food workers asking to join the SEIU!
Trina Moehring
I have grown my Leadership Steward in leaps and bounds to 6 or 7 in an office where an elected official work’s and he is “god”.
I’ve worked as a negotiator and CAT te...
Sergio Garcia
My proudest moment was when I was able to help a homecare member secure more hours to take care of her daughter, who needed care around the clock. I supported her through the application and appeal...
Corey Dearborn
- I am a Youth Counselor at Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. I have been doing this work for almost 20 years now. I love my job and the ability to change the lives of ...
Freddie Davis
Taking action to stop Governor Rauner budget cuts to homecare and childcare. I led a group of people with disabilities, elderly and people in wheelchairs to shut down the streets of Chicago and Spr...
Maggie Vancol Pena
I most proud of helping to recruit more members to sign up on COPE. I helped gather the most volunteers for the primary campaign in Miami, Florida to support Hilary Clinton.
Tai
When we SEIU Local 1000 went to the City Council and fought of the 15 dollars and a Union
Ashley Brewer
Accepting the call to take on more roles in the union that requirement to get outside of my comfort zone and have faith in the abilities that I have.
Patrice Carrigan
we just got our Clinical scientist to join our union and are on our way to a great contract
MaryEllen Leveille
Winning $15 start rates for a hospital that has been viciously anti union for years
Christine Crean
I was a regional VP and worked for the Department of Children and families. There was a lot of tension because a worker was put on leave pending an investigation of a case, We were not informed abo...
Shemiaka Meitzenheimer
The unification of Local 2015 – the staffing bill in particular – she is a nurse, and sharing her story empowered her to organize/lead others.
Cyandra Wilson
My niece began and SEIU member and she’s become very active in the union. Her name Renita Wilson.
Mya
When I walked along side the brothers and sisters every year at the share holders meeting at McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago, when it time to shut it down.
Darius Cephas
I was in the Boston Globe and Local news to raise awareness on the struggle of my city as well as other city and countries around the world.
Jennefer Castillo
When I was asked to attend deployments in another state, I was excited! Being able to meet new people who do my job without all the benefits I have access to, is inspiring! To see the looks on thes...
Earlene Webster
Talking to people that feel that they don’t really matter because we need everybody to grow our union. Give them all hope and vision to move forward. The more members the more power.
Socorro Almeida
Being part of the bargaining table for my agency and representing my area
Yesenia Martinez
Attending the Ignite Conference and stepping out of my confront zone. Also taking action to support airport workers
Melissa Ringer
Meeting and Speaking with other local Members to work toward building a unified presents in the Yakima Area. Bringing more than 35 members to Olympia for purple presence to talk to legislators.
...Rick Ross
Last Fall I went to Canada to speak at a Labor Union Convention, I talked about winning $15 in SeaTac and Seattle. I also went to Olympia to stop the HB 6662 to Separate Family caregiver from other...
Frank Metully
I am New to SEIU but as a teamster shop steward I saved the jobs of many persons who were ati-union.
Tuifua Taliauli
I’ve just been a caregiver for couple months and I see that we WIN in coming together.
Kaloline Moimoi
Purple Presence Day- we get to show the people in Olympia that we matter and they need to listen to what we go through. We deserve more !!
Vai Makaafi
Inspiring stories of members from all different Locals and using those experience with members with similar stories and making a connection.
Peter MacKinnon
Getting members to picket and rally and call for change in child protection in Massachusetts- resulting in between $40-60 million in additional funding JUST for more workers – about a 35% inc...
Dawn Davis
Organizing and mobilizing chapter members to fight against and beating back a negative change management wanted to make in our workplace. When management offered a settled they said “We heard...
John Taylor
We discovered, during the course of a discrimination investigation, that a mid-level HR administrator at the University of Oregon had rubber-stamped a request from an office manager to obtain full ...
Gwen Phillips
One of my proudest leadership moments is when I was able to sign-up 13 out of 15 co-workers with sign pledge cards within a two week period.
Lawrence Brooks
One of my proudest moments was presenting a myth busting presentation to the City and News outlets on one of our days of actions and being an active agent of change in regards to changing the dialo...
Kat Miles
While working with our leader Lebert (who also was here), we had 32 members show up for the fight for $15 from his chapter.
Maribel Rodriguez
The rally on April 15 to our state capital and seeing so many members fighting for 15 and organizing people to get there!Another one was helping people understand why having a living wage is so imp...
Linda Lee
Our Local won the Best Local award this year from the Southwest Washington Labor Round Table. In the past year, we started attending, and now they are larger in size, and for the first time ever, ...
Tanika Aden
One of my proudest leadership moments from the past year came when I reached out to a union member who considered herself anti-union. She is a single mother struggling to make it. We had visited he...
Agustina Cardenas
I have always been passionate about immigration reform, this year I talked to a lot of people registered to vote and to become citizenships so when I hear from them that they have voted or become c...
kerri Theuerl
Every time another member steps up to become more involved , every time they dig deeper to find resolutions, every time they acknowledge that they have grown as leaders in their work environment , ...
Sharon Lewis-Pope
November 10 action- I had an action on November 10th in a smaller city Altoona Pa. Watching Nursing home workers,Hospital workers and fast food workers unite for a fair wage and people who were jus...
Tyler Downey
Seeing member leaders step up at our 2015 local convention and take on leadership and speaking roles.
Ryan Dolby
I am thrilled that I had the opportunity to train new labour activists. The passion they bring to the labour movement is a breath of fresh air
Michael hall
My proudest moment was giving a speech at ignite. It changed everything for me as a leader .
Theresa Matteer
1. Marching to McDonald head quatters on a mission for fight for 15.
2. Going to AFRAM conference in Detroit.
3. Being actively involved in helping elect a union minded Prim Minister
Riley Richman
Proudest moment would be when one of our members spoke at Ignite. It was the culmination of his development and hard work
Kristof Barocz
Helping other find their voice and follow their passion, while working for collective progress. Leading a team with a respectful attitude, pushing for collaboration.
Dan Belford
Helping lead a political action asking for government support for PTSD funding for first responders.
Fiona Bailey
Bargaining committee, i recently got the opportunity to sit on the bargaining committee and attend negotiation, and the entire week all i was focus on was the members and what’s important to ...
Sabrina Ladson
The fight for $15 because it’s a shame when people go to work everyday and have to choose between food for the family or paying the rent.
Mary Rosario
one of my proudest moments is activating new members and coworkers that was never active and building leaders with issues that really moves them and being a part of Social Justice Leadership Academ...
Eunice Mercedes
My proudest moment of leadership would be the Fight For 15 campaign, I connected our local campaign directly to the the fight for 15. I spoke to members in my security division and got them to unde...
Juan Gutierrez
Being able to help in the workshops for the Atlantic City conference last year.
Vickie blevins
We were fighting an important battle for 4 local house seats that would have brought right to work to our state we fought and won 3 of the 4 seats
Michele Burk
I would say being part of the team that worked in the Cleveland area to obtain about 300 new membership cards from fair share members. We accomplished this in one week.
Erica McLain
While on leave I had members donate time to me. I was told by members that they did this because of what I had done for them over the past year.
Erica McLain
I was on FMLA and I had quite a few members call me to let me know that they were praying and that they would hate to lose me because of the aide I had given them over the years. It made me feel go...
Fernando Salcedo
Number one, proud to be a member of local #1. Two, proud to help other members in the training areas. Three, always fighting to expand our union.
Vincet Salsa
I would have to say that the contract campaign was my proudest moment: when I helped mobilized thousands of members to be on the streets and fight for their rights. Also, I was a proud member of th...
Krzysztof Fedorowicz
Participating on the design of the Ignite and playing super active role in the janitorial contract campaign right after. Mobilizing members in my turf and turning them to action. Actively campaigne...
Pam Owens
We turned a negative into a positive during a decert campaign in Lansing, Michigan. In three days of housevisits and meetings, we were able to secure a victory by a nearly 3 to 1 margin.
Eric Szopacs
Stepping up in absence of our chapter president while we had a rough negotiations process. It was really hard to help lead a big group of people while trying to fill a great leaders shoes because o...
Matthew Yarnell
The leadership and passion that our ignite members brought back to the local was over the top.
The entire leader cohort came back to Pennsylvania and went all in to organize 20,000 home mem...
Alana Bennett
Leaving ignite and getting involved in homecare campaign signing up thousands of home care workers across Pennsylvania into the Union also bringing home to My Local what I’ve learned at igni...
Ryan Richard
Helping with AGH workers become unionized and getting the home care workers unionized
Christina Sloat
Forming a committee on domestic violence &victims of violen crimes.To be able to share my story and help guide/direct others towards resources .Also,working on SB4 and winning/testifying agains...
Tonya Y Morrow
Being able to take the IGNITE curriculum and do a workshop tying everything together during our Leadership Assembly and moving to a fill in role, for the HCPA political department and working with ...
Evelia Rodriguez
I was proudest when we figured out how to bring community members into active participation in our union. When I look back it was those conversations that helped us win minimum wage.
Brandy Cunningham
“I cried the moment we celebrated successfully enrolling 10,000 Californians into healthcare, I thought wow – we did that!” (Kaiser Orange County)
Darrell “DJ” Jerome
It happened during the Kaiser On-Call Conversion that took place this past winter, where I was able to witness a member’s life change. The member was pregnant in her last trimester. She also had ...
Oscar Gaspar
Getting people enrolled into healthcare, was really life changing for me. As a healthcare worker, I see people struggle to find access to care all the time. Through our enrollment events I felt lik...
Gisella Thomas
Recently, a member from my facility, who had been asked numerous times, came to me and said “I want to do COPE”, I knew that I was finally getting through to
my members about why it all m...
Clemente Guzman
Right after the Ignite Conference one of my participants came back to her local and ran with the SPARK. She started holding her own meetings and did a membership drive where she signed up 10 people i...Zenia Javalera
participating on the airport campaign and the final decision to Proposition 1 in SeaTac. Airport workers are finally being paid $15.24 and are getting back pay.
Samihullah Tokhi
After the IGNITE Conference, several of us at Local 1000 created the IGNITE CORE Team. A group of staff organizers and member leaders who went to the IGNITE conference and then who dedicated themselve...Lenny Rizzuto
My proudest leadership moment for me is being part of a team that developed a leadership program specific for member leaders to develop the skill set so strong so when they go back to the worksite the...
Wandra Pitts
I had the opportunity to bring my daughter, for the first time, and a group of friends on a Local 1000 bus trip from Sacramento to Oakland to participate in the National Day of Action on November 1...
LeRoy Candler II
To bring people from church and other churches and Pastor to come together and speak at rally's. To getting the community to understand that we have power together and only why we have to make change...
Dorothy Ortiz
Attentiveness to others; when members I work with come back to me and tell me “it was the Contract Language you shared with me” or “I could really relate to your personal story...
Erik Larsen
One if my proudest movements was leading the coastal community of leaders. It was a team effort to keep 20-30 leaders meeting quarterly. We created a learning environment that support their growth. An...Keri Kline
Developing my new Steward, her family/children didn't understand the fight, in denial, and didn't understand the reason why we do what we do. We easily unpacked the importance of our fight. By the tim...Tonya Bealey
My Proud moments have been sharing my experiences with SEIU 1000, Ignite and Leadership development which has helped me become a better leader. Ive educated members on things that are more important ...Glen Bessemer
I served as a co-bus captain from Sacramento to Berkely, keeping the bus charged up and engaged during the ride to the FF15! Rally. For he first time I played a prominent role, Facilitating several...Christina Calugcugan
1.) Leading the FF15 campaign in Los Angeles and actually being in front of Gov. Jerry Brown while he signed the bill!
2.) Achieving over 7,000+ signatures for Prop 30 in a matter of 2 week...
Sandra Nofal
To be part of the Fight for $ 15, I do make twice that amount but to be part of a movement that I can affect my friends, family, and neighbors that make less than $ 15 an hour, FEELS GREAT !!!!!!!!...
Stephanie Deceus
One of the proudest leadership moments this past year is being able to guide an organizer through the steps she needed to take to get her members to fight their boss against a wrongful termination....
Sereda White
Selected as a “pioneer” of the labor management partnership at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL., I have learned a great deal about compromise. I am confident because my leaders at ...
Robin Miller
Re-igniting members who were beginning to run out of energy and lose their focus.
Jesse Martin
Helping to negotiate nursing home contracts that raised CNA’s to $15/per hour.
Keisha Barnes
The proudest moment I had in the past year was being able to share my personal story with the U.S. Senator, and have him agree to support home care workers.
Chas Walker
Reached first ever contract for RI Child Care providers - after a 10 year campaign!! Helped save Bannister House nursing home through massive member mobilization.
Pam Jones
When a leader step up and turned out 9 new members. At that moment I felt like a leader.
Darnell Ford
My proudest moment was going back to where I work, DCF State Children’s Hospital, and organizing new employees to the Fight for $15 campaign. They turned out to the all the actions..recruited...
Efia Joseph
Being able to mobilize members on the FF$15 when I was unable to do before.
T. Mitchell
Building a campaign of safety and security at a rehab hospital. We won safer conditions after workers in our union circulated a petition. A campaign that connected workers from multiple bargaining ...
Dora Alvarez
She said that SEIU-UHW has given her an opportunity to grow as a leader and learn about herself through different opportunities. She met other healthcare workers like her who yearn to be respected ...
Michelle Ross
Her most memorable leadership moment was when she first spoke about Medi-Cal. She knew she was helping others and she realized that that’s going to be her mission in life. She fondly remembers th...
Jay Fermin
One of the memorable experiences he’s had in organizing is camping out of this guy’s home. He waited until he finally arrived. He was able to connect with him and until now this person still ca...
Mark Janov
One of his favorite moments is when he developed his chief steward, Marissa, into a leader. She didn’t know anything about the union but through their conversations about the contracts, COPE, and...
Georgette Bradford
She’s proud that she was there when Gov. Brown announced the minimum wage legislation which was qualified with the hard work of our leaders who collected over 600,000 signatures. “Politics ...