Taking Health Care to the States and the Streets

 

Ellen Golombek brings a powerful commitment to working families and to the difficult challenge of taming the American health care crisis. A former president of the Colorado Federation of Labor, she is the director of Americans for Health Care - a nonpartisan campaign launched by the Service Employees International Union to establish affordable, quality health care for all.


SEIU has a big stake in the health care issue from many perspectives. For one, it represents more than 755,000 health care workers, making it the largest union in the health field. SEIU is also the largest union in the AFL-CIO, with 1.6 million members - many of whom are lower-wage workers with a huge stake in negotiating health care benefits in their contracts and communities. Finally, SEIU has a long history of engagement with African-American and immigrant workers, and its innovative campaigns, like Justice for Janitors and the gro u n d - b reaking home health care workers organizing effort in California, have pushed the envelope on forging labor-community coalitions to advance worker rights.

 

Americans for Health Care takes those struggles the next step, consciously building a broad coalition of working families, small business owners, seniors, health care workers, community leaders, policy makers and individuals.

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