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If you have yet to re-commit to our union, now is the time. As healthcare professionals, our voice in decisions that impact our patients and our profession is protected in our union contract. Sign your Together We Rise card today to show our employers and elected officials that we’re united to make our healthcare system better for all. For public sector employees: bit.ly/seiuhcpamemberpublic For private sector employees: bit.ly/seiuhcpamember 1 TOGETHER WE RISE Dear SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania member: Our healthcare system, our union and our country are in a moment of unprecedented change. We see those changes at work—as massive healthcare systems and outside corporations buy up our workplaces, we are asked to do more with less. We see the effects on our union—as the Supreme Court just passed the biggest measure in decades to try to weaken our ability to negotiate strong contracts, improve care, and have a say in our jobs. And we see it in our communities, being pulled apart by violence, addiction, poverty and uncertainty. We were drawn to the healthcare field by a desire to care for people, and to heal. That makes watching the struggle around us even harder. Yet there is hope. Through our union, we are proving that Together, We Rise. Despite billionaire-funded campaigns that aim to convince union members they’re better off without their union, a majority of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania members have re-committed and re-signed a union card, and we’ve welcomed new healthcare workers from across Pennsylvania into our union. In the midst of a growing corporate healthcare climate that too often takes decision- making away from frontline caregivers, workers and management are coming together in our Healthcare Transformation initiative to develop conflict resolution skills, brainstorm projects, and implement changes inside our facilities that improve care, efficiency, and save lives. In September, 2017 hundreds of union healthcare workers came together in Lancaster to learn vital skills at our Leadership Assembly. The theme, “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Acts,” emphasized the ability for each of us to change our lives and our healthcare system through our union. And nurses across Pennsylvania came together in record numbers to address the undeniable care crisis happening in our state. In just three months, nurses visited 100 legislators in Pennsylvania to lift up the dangerous challenges of their profession and urge lawmakers to support safe staffing ratio laws. Their advocacy on behalf of their patients and profession is working. Because of their dedication, 49 legislators have signed on to support staffing ratio laws to date—the most ever—and Governor Wolf has come out in support of staffing ratio laws—the first sitting Governor of PA ever to do so. This is all in addition to the victories happening inside every one of our hospitals, nursing homes, state health facilities and with home care workers each and every day. Every working person deserves the right to have a say in their wages and working conditions. Every healthcare worker needs the power to stand up and advocate for those they care for. That is what we have through our union and that is how We Rise. Sincerely, Matt Yarnell, President, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania

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Page 1: TOGETHER WE RISE · The International Medical Corps (IMC) provided an in depth look at disaster relief, both at home and abroad. We’re partnering with IMC to develop a rapid response

If you have yet to re-commit to our union, now is the time. As healthcare professionals, our voice in decisions that impact our patients and our profession is protected in our union contract. Sign your Together We Rise card today to show our employers and elected officials that we’re united to make our

healthcare system better for all.

For public sector employees: bit.ly/seiuhcpamemberpublic

For private sector employees: bit.ly/seiuhcpamember

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TOGETHER WE RISE Dear SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania member:

Our healthcare system, our union and our country are in a moment of unprecedented change.

We see those changes at work—as massive healthcare systems and outside corporations buy up our workplaces, we are asked to do more with less. We see the effects on our union—as the Supreme Court just passed the biggest measure in decades to try to weaken our ability to negotiate strong contracts, improve care, and have a say in our jobs. And we see it in our communities, being pulled apart by violence, addiction, poverty and uncertainty.

We were drawn to the healthcare field by a desire to care for people, and to heal. That makes watching the struggle around us even harder.

Yet there is hope. Through our union, we are proving that Together, We Rise.

Despite billionaire-funded campaigns that aim to convince union members they’re better off without their union, a majority of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania members have re-committed and re-signed a union card, and we’ve welcomed new healthcare workers from across Pennsylvania into our union.

In the midst of a growing corporate healthcare climate that too often takes decision-making away from frontline caregivers, workers and management are coming together in our Healthcare Transformation initiative to develop conflict resolution skills, brainstorm projects, and implement changes inside our facilities that improve care, efficiency, and save lives.

In September, 2017 hundreds of union healthcare workers came together in Lancaster to learn vital skills at our Leadership Assembly. The theme, “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Acts,” emphasized the ability for each of us to change our lives and our healthcare system through our union.

And nurses across Pennsylvania came together in record numbers to address the undeniable care crisis happening in our state. In just three months, nurses visited 100 legislators in Pennsylvania to lift up the dangerous challenges of their profession and urge lawmakers to support safe staffing ratio laws. Their advocacy on behalf of their patients and profession is working. Because of their dedication, 49 legislators have signed on to support staffing ratio laws to date—the most ever—and Governor Wolf has come out in support of staffing ratio laws—the first sitting Governor of PA ever to do so.

This is all in addition to the victories happening inside every one of our hospitals, nursing homes, state health facilities and with home care workers each and every day.

Every working person deserves the right to have a say in their wages and working conditions. Every healthcare worker needs the power to stand up and advocate for those they care for. That is what we have through our union and that is how We Rise.

Sincerely,Matt Yarnell, President, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania

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Coming Together to Save Lives Pennsylvania is in the midst of a patient safety crisis, driven by unprecedented short-staffing. Research shows that in Pennsylvania hospitals, every one additional patient per nurse increases the risk of death by 7%.

The 9,000 Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania’s Nurse Alliance are working to change that. Through Nurses of PA, a movement of union and non-union nurses initiated by nurses of SEIU HCPA, nurses are coming together to win safe staffing ratio laws in Pennsylvania.

Since 2017, over 10,000 people have signed the Nurses of PA safe staffing petition and in just three months, 200 nurses have visited 100 PA legislators, sharing the challenges of their profession and urging them to support safe ratio laws, which 90% of nurses want. To date, 49 legislators have signed on to support safe staffing ratios.

And our advocacy doesn’t stop there. In May, Dr. Rachel Levine, Secretary for the PA Dept. of Health, met with nurses to discuss needed changes to improve care. Just a few weeks later, Governor Wolf held a roundtable discussion with nurses who shared the challenges they face. At the end of the meeting, Gov. Wolf expressed his commitment to make safe staffing ratio laws a reality—the first time in history that a sitting PA Governor has supported safe ratio laws. Changing laws is never easy. But as we saw when nurses passed a ban on mandatory overtime, it can be done. Through the strength and resources of our union, nurses are creating real change to transform our healthcare system.

Disaster Preparedness SummitThis year’s Nurse Alliance Education Conference, Nurse Preparedness: Coming Together in Crisis, focused on preparing nurses for rapid response during natural disasters and public health crises. Nurses across the state received valuable training, information and first-hand accounts on how to navigate disaster assistance while earning CE credits.

The International Medical Corps (IMC) provided an in depth look at disaster relief, both at home and abroad. We’re partnering with IMC to develop a rapid response system to employ nurses to disaster areas and provide coordinated training and communication. SEIU nurses left the conference with plans to work disaster relief leave into their union contracts and develop other ways to work with their employers to ensure this important work is possible.

REAL STORIES FROM DISASTER RELIEF WORK

Wendy Snyder, an orthopedic nurse from Heritage Valley Beaver, and Justin Jacobeen, an RN from Hershey Medical Center, were among 200 first responders and volunteers who traveled to Puerto Rico under a union-led relief effort when hurricanes devastated the island last year.

They spent a week setting up clinics to treat patients and provide education, particularly about the importance of drinking clean water. Many of their patients suffered from conjunctivitis, skin and foot infections, leptospirosis, respiratory issues and a few cases of cholera.

“I went to Puerto Rico on a plane full of strangers, but I came back with a family,” Snyder said. “I will never forget the relationships I built with other union members from different places, different backgrounds and different jobs. As nurses, we have a calling to help and heal. I am so grateful I had the opportunity to do that for our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico.”

THE NURSE ALLIANCE

Denelle Weller, RN at Mt. Nittany Medical Center, was recently named to the Executive Board of the Patient Safety Authority, making Weller the first practicing bedside nurse ever to join the board. “It speaks volumes that Governor Wolf is putting frontline workers in positions like this. We’re the people who see the care delivered and know what needs to be changed.”

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Every day, PA hospital workers dedicate their lives to provide the best care and services possible. But as larger systems and global health empires buy up smaller hospitals, workers struggle to maintain the community feel their patients trust. From dietary workers to laboratory techs,

housekeeping to secretaries and every job in between, SEIU members are using their union strength to ensure their voices are heard in these rapidly-changing times.

When dietary workers at Fulton County Medical Center were outsourced, they

signed union cards to ensure they had a voice, and stopped plans to cut wages and hike healthcare costs. And when Tower Health purchased Chestnut Hill and Pottstown hospitals, workers came together to protect the standards they achieved through their union. That’s not all!

Hospital Workers Uniting To Improve Care in Their Industry

• Allegheny Valley Hospital• UPMC Altoona• Central Blood Bank• Lehigh Valley Hospital—Schuylkill

(Schuylkill Medical Center)• Washington Greene• Allegheny General Hospital RNs• Allegheny General Hospital Techs• Allegheny General Hospital Service/Clerical• Frick Hospital• Easton Hospital Techs

Contracts Ratified

AGH Members Make Big Gains Through Their Union. Allegheny General Hospital registered nurses, along with service, technical, and clerical workers, achieved tremendous union contracts over the past year. In October 1,300 AGH nurses reached an agreement that ensures their hospital can provide the very best nursing care in the region. “Throughout these negotiations, we have remained focused on two goals: making sure there are always enough nurses at the bedside for our patients, and that our input is respected in care-delivery decisions,” said Cathy Stoddart, RN. “This contract achieves those goals.”

Then this spring, Service, Clerical and Technical workers ratified a union contract that increases staffing levels in many areas, freezes healthcare costs, and substantially increases wages. “This victory really shows the difference that having a union makes,” said Valerie Fehl, a certified occupational therapy assistant. “For me personally, it means I’ll be able to quit my second job and spend more time with my three-year-old son and husband. For Pittsburgh, it means more solid middle-class jobs.”

UPMC McKeesport RNs Say YES to Their Union, Win Strong Contract. After UPMC waged a deliberate attempt to take away their rights at work, McKeesport RNs voted by a 3-to-1 margin in favor of their union. Months later, they entered contract negotiations. Nurses put a billboard up across the street from the hospital, held a candlelight vigil and stayed united until they won a strong contract that includes not only fair wage increases and job protections, but consistent nurse scheduling and assignment processes that put patient care first.

Moses Taylor & First Hospital Workers Stand Strong for Patient Care. In Northeastern PA, nurses and hospital workers are standing up to their for-profit owner, CHS. At First Hospital of Wyoming Valley, mental health techs and clerical staff are united to achieve a contract that offers vital training and fair wages to recruit experienced staff. Since October, workers have hit the picket line twice and were joined by registered nurses, who were fighting for the same protections. In June, RNs finally won a new contract that provides training, orientation, and wage increases. Just a few miles away, nurses at Moses Taylor Hospital, another CHS-facility, went on strike the same time as First Hospital. United, their message to CHS is clear: frontline caregivers will not back down when patient care is at stake.

Hershey Medical Center RNs Unite, Win Big Changes. In April, over 1,700 registered nurses at Hershey Medical Center came together like never before to ratify a contract that ensures their hospital is both the region’s employer of choice for nurses and the provider of choice for patients. Concerned about turnover, nurses were committed to ending the wage cap and reining in healthcare costs. “This contract makes sure none of our nurses are lured to other hospitals by better pay or benefits,” said Russy Jean, RN.

• Hershey Medical Center• UPMC McKeesport• Geisinger Wyoming Valley• JC Blair • First Hospital of Wyoming Valley RNs• Cura Hospitality at Fulton County

Medical Center• Wayne Memorial • Cura at Fulton County Medical Center• Aramark at Lock Haven• Aramark at Polyclinic 3

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Home Care Workers Fighting for—and Winning—Better Jobs and Care Seniors and people with disabilities overwhelmingly prefer to receive care at home, but there is an alarming shortage of qualified home caregivers in no small part because of poverty wages, lack of healthcare benefits and training. To solve this home care crisis, United Home Care Workers of PA (UHWP) have been working tirelessly to earn the respect and recognition they deserve and turn home care jobs into family-sustaining careers.

In June, 2017 Addus workers came together at the bargaining table and won historic 20–30% wage increases— giving some workers as much as an additional $2.75 an hour! Then in partnership with Liberty Home Choices, TRPIL, and Voices for Independence, UHWP launched the first ever home care apprenticeship program. In May of 2018, our first three graduates completed their apprenticeship, Tamora Reid, Latoya Frye, and Sunomia Haynes, earning either a CNA license or a advanced home care certification and a wage increase. Finally, in the spring of 2018, home care workers were proud to stand with Governor Wolf as he extended sexual harassment protections for domestic workers, including home care workers.

Despite outside attacks by groups that want to strip away their ability to come together to improve their lives, PA home care workers refuse to stop fighting for a better future for workers, seniors and individuals living with disabilities.

Pennsylvania nursing homes are in the midst of an ownership sea change—in the last three years alone, over 70% of our union homes have been bought and sold to new operators. While this dramatic transition presents real challenges for workers and their residents, it’s also creates new opportunities to shine a light on the quality of nursing home jobs and care and fundamentally improve the long term care system.

Despite the tremendous uncertainty, SEIU members are speaking out and taking to the streets to protect their union rights and the standards they’ve worked for decades to achieve. The path ahead won’t be easy, but united, nursing home workers are stronger than ever.

SEIU Nursing Home Members Stand Strong Against the Storm

Golden Living Center Workers Win Back $1.7M. When GLC sold its PA nursing homes, it left owing 2,000 workers nearly $1.7 million in unpaid sick and vacation time. For months, SEIU members worked for justice by talking to the media, signing petitions and continually calling GLC management to demand payment. Finally in May, GLC agreed to pay workers what was rightfully theirs, proving the power of collective action.

Skyline Workers Protect Residents Against All Odds. In 2017, New Jersey-based Skyline Healthcare purchased five former Golden Living Center nursing homes and that’s when the trouble started. Almost immediately, reports flooded in of Skyline not paying vendors, employee health insurance or the Training and Education Fund. But SEIU members fought back and did whatever was necessary to care for residents. Finally, the Department of Health intervened and workers continue to push for better standards with their new owner.

“Hands Off My Union” Say Saber Workers. A troubling new trend is for new employers to recognize the union but refuse to honor workers’ contracts. Just ask Saber workers who have now held two rounds of info pickets to push back against their new employer who’s looking to cut training and affordable healthcare while eliminating workers’ seniority, vacation, and holidays. These workers will continue fighting until they regain the benefits they have worked for years to achieve.

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Berks Heim Nurses Fight for Their Home’s Future. For years, county nursing home workers have fought to prevent private sales in order to maintain care and job standards that are

often higher than in privately-owned homes. This past year, nurses at Berks Heim Nursing and Rehabilitation have waged an inspiring campaign to keep their home in County-hands, speaking at Commissioners Meetings, writing letters and garnering community support. Berks Heim is a true asset for County taxpayers and nurses there intend to keep it that way.

Workers Say No to Vita’s Cuts. On June 22, workers at Somerton and Garden Spring Centers in

Southeastern PA held info pickets to demand their new employer, Vita Healthcare Group, treat them with dignity and respect. For decades, workers have raised job and care standards

through their union but literally overnight, the new employer slashed wages and gutted their healthcare benefits. These workers won’t rest until justice is restored.

• Grane• Hampton House• Care Pavilion• Chicora• Armstrong County• Allegheny County (Kanes)• Brighton• LGAR

Contract victories• Sunnyview• Global Riverside

and Westgate Hills• Transitions

Washington• Transitions

Huntingdon• Prospect Park

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Attacks on our union rights are nothing new; in fact, for as long as working women and men have come together collectively to demand better wages and safer working conditions, wealthy special interests have tried to break our unions apart.

And now, despite a new fierce wave of attacks, healthcare professionals—along with adjunct professors, airport workers, home caregivers, childcare workers, and many more—are joining together in unions in record numbers. More people joined unions in the last several years than in previous decades, with 262,000 new union members joining the labor movement last year alone. What’s more, public approval of unions is soaring: a recent Gallup Poll shows 61 percent of Americans have a favorable view of unions.

In this moment of intense challenge and tremendous opportunity, we are finding new and innovative ways to come together and build power. We are working to make America’s economy fairer for every working person while at the same time creating a healthcare system that prioritizes patient care over corporate profits. As we build our union, we are demanding those in power work with us to make it easier, not harder, to build strong unions. And regardless of what new attacks come our way, we will continue to organize and build upon the legacy of those who came before us.

UPMC: Hospital Workers are Rising. The movement of Hospital Workers at UPMC fighting for their union has been growing as more and more workers have signed on to stand up to the healthcare giant. This past year, the service and tech workers have been joined by student nurses, research assistants, and homecare nurses to demand that UPMC do more for the people who make them the success they are today.

The work being done in Pittsburgh and across Western Pennsylvania has inspired hospital workers across America. On labor day, workers in hospitals across the country kicked off the national Hospital Workers Rising movement to make every hospital job a good union job.

Mazzoni Center Unite to Improve LGBTQIA Care. In September, front line staff at Mazzoni Center, which provides vital healthcare services to Philadelphia’s LGBTQIA community, voted to join our union after finally reaching their limit with organizational mismanagement, unfair hiring and firing practices, staffing turnover and a lack of input in decisions that impact work conditions and client care. “Our months-long struggle was rewarded with a resounding yes vote to join SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania and we are determined to ensure that the lives of LGBTQIA workers and people are valued,” said Michelle Lindstrom, Medical Case Manager.

Oak Health Rehab Center Nurses Say Union Yes. On September 5, 14 licensed practical nurses from Oak Health Rehabilitation Center in Western Pennsylvania voted unanimously to join SEIU Healthcare PA. They were fed up with understaffing, lack of adequate pay and unaffordable healthcare costs and used their collective strength to build a better future for themselves, their families and their residents.

Welcome Mount Nittany Medical Center’s Monitor Surveillance Techs. Finally, we welcome our newest union sisters and brothers— Monitor Surveillance Techs from Mount Nittany Medical Center— who voted in June to join their co-workers in SEIU Healthcare PA and fight for better working conditions and improved quality patient care. “I believe in the power of unions. We are much stronger together than when we try to stand alone!,” said Scott Rauch, Mount Nittany Monitor Surveillance Tech.

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WE’RE ORGANIZING LIKE NEVER BEFORE

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Everyday, lawmakers in Harrisburg and Washington make decisions that profoundly impact our lives—in our workplaces, our homes and our communities. Those we elect to office decide how much funding is available for our jobs, if healthcare workers should have the right to collectively bargain, if our patients should have safe staffing levels and if our kids should have properly funded schools.

That’s why, on the steps of the state Capitol, at our local County Courthouses, and in Washington DC, SEIU Healthcare PA members have let decision-makers know what matters to us, the working women and men who keep our country running. We have spoken up for safe staffing, dignity for seniors and people with disabilities, affordable healthcare, and our American right to have strong unions.

As we gear up for another important election in the Fall, we must keep educating candidates on what matters to healthcare workers and those we care for—we must elect champions who will stand up for us when it matters most.

No Court Case Will Stop Us. For years, wealthy corporations and the politicians they support have been working to strip union workers of our rights—the Janus v. ACSFME Supreme Court case is nothing more than the latest attack. But members of SEIU and other unions across the country refuse to allow corporate interests to take away our voice and our rights to collectively bargain for better standards and safer workplaces.

In addition to re-signing and re-committing as members of our union, we took to the streets and social media to show our union pride and spoke out again and again to expose the wealthy special interests bankrolling Janus whose agenda is to weaken our union for their financial gain.

On Feb. 26, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Janus case, thousands of union members held demonstrations all across the state to stand up for our union rights. Then on June 11 & 12, we gathered at the state Capitol to urge our lawmakers to stand up for good union jobs and rights of working people. Regardless of the Janus decision, we have made it loud and clear that no court case will stand in our way as we will continue to organize and make our union stronger than ever before.

Defending the ACA Again…, and Again and Again. Since its passage, the Affordable Care Act has given 20 million more Americans healthcare benefits, cancer patients assurance their coverage wouldn’t be limited by lifetime caps and those struggling from opioid addiction access to life-saving care. But throughout this past year, extremists in Congress have attempted again and again to dismantle the ACA with no plan in place to replace it.

As healthcare workers who know the difference affordable care can make for our patients, we stood up against these attacks every step of the way. In February, members of Congress went on recess, and we were waiting for them, holding town halls to share our healthcare stories, even when they failed to show up! We put ourselves on the line to declare that healthcare is a human right and again and again, we made phone calls, sent emails, spoke to reporters and demanded our legislators understand how important healthcare access is to every American. In the end, we were able to protect the benefits offered by the Affordable Care Act and will continue to work on how to strengthen and improve the law.

Conor Lamb, A Steadfast Supporter of Union Rights. Earlier this year, union voters in Western PA had a unique opportunity to elect a new Congressman who centered his campaign on protecting workers’ rights. Conor Lamb, a veteran who was running for Congress in Washington, PA, expressed his steadfast support for workers’ rights, protecting Medicare and Social Security while refusing to take campaign money from corporate executives. In comparison, his opponent, Rick Saccone, built his political career on trying to strip union workers of their rights and bankrolled his campaign with wealthy Washington donors.

The outcome of this election was incredibly close, but it was the thousands of doors knocked and conversations between union voters that helped pull Conor Lamb

to victory. We will continue to support Conor—and other candidates that support our union rights—in November.

MY VOICEMY VOTE

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Brad Barkdoll, Chambersburg Hospital

John Berezansky, State Unit

Kelly Blacker, Dunmore Healthcare Center

Lisa Colatruglio, Heritage Valley of Beaver

Kaylee Colemire, Hershey Medical Center

Cathy Curtin, Berwick Hospital Center

Connie Cwikla, Lackawanna Health and Rehab

Shelby Dille, Brighton Rehab and Wellness Center

Brenda Fields, Washington Hospital

David Green, Lehigh Valley Hospital—Pocono

Linda Heater, Pottstown Hospital

Donna Heimbach, AristaCare at Hearthside

Norman Henderson, Addus Philadelphia

Dena Hitchan, Allegheny General Hospital

Chris Horton, Maybrook Hills Rehab and HC Center Michelle Johnson, Crestview North GEC

Amy Kepple, Allegheny Valley Hospital

Pamela Kramer-Schwarz, Hershey Medical Center Sandra Kurtz, Hershey Medical Center

Andrea Leach, Broad Mountain H&R Center

Patricia Lindenfelser, Allegheny General Hospital

Gary Margulis, State Unit

Stefan Martin, Saunders House Linda McCarthy, Allegheny General Hospital

Bridgid Mentzer, Chambersburg Hospital

Stephanie Messick, Uniontown HC & Rehab Center

Brennan Mills, The Meadows at West Shore

Tonya Morrow, SEIU Healthcare PA Staff

Jeanette Oakley, Chestnut Hill Hospital

Lolita Owens, UHWP AFSCME

Linda Parlett, JC Blair Memorial Hospital

William Pollock, Chambersburg Hospital

Matt Pulaski, Mount Nittany Medical Center

Katrina Rectenwald, Allegheny General Hospital

Tina Siegel, Clarion Health and Rehab Center

Paula Stellabotte, UMPC Altoona

Tynia Stevens, Bryn Mawr Extended Care Center

Eric Szopacs, Phoebe Home

Ruth Visintainer, Geisinger Wyoming Valley

Sandra Williams, Windber Woods

Susan Woodings, Allegheny General Hospital

Scott Young, Mount Nittany Medical Center

Erica Zimmerman, Canonsburg General Hospital

GET CONNECTED

SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania1500 N. 2nd Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102www.seiuhcpa.org

Member Resource Center: 1-800-252-3894 or 412-222-9514 (if you are out of PA)

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Matthew YarnellPresident

Zach ZobristSecretary-Treasurer

Morgan LindseyExecutive Vice President, Field Director

Jesse WildermanExecutive Vice President, Director of Innovation

Sarah FishbeinVice President, New Organizing

Lisa FrankVice President for Strategic Campaigns

Amanda LapinaVice President, Hospital Systems

Carlos RiveraVice President, Long Term Care

Wendell RoysterVice President, Long Term Care

EXECUTIVE BOARDOFFICERS

BECK NOTICEUnder the National Labor Relations Act, employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement requiring the payment of union dues as a

condition of employment have the right to be or remain a non-member of the union subject only to the duty to pay a monthly representation fee equal to union dues. If you elect not to join the union and limit your obligation to the union to the payment of these fees, you will lose all the rights of union membership, including the right to attend union meetings, the right to vote for union officers, and to take advantage of other privileges of union membership. If you wish to so limit your obligation, you must send written notice of your decision to the Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, 1500 N. Second Street, Suite 12, Harrisburg, PA 17102. You should include your name, address, last 4 digits of your social security number, employer and work location.

If you elect or have elected not to be a member of the union and to limit your obligation to the union to the payment of fees equal to periodic dues, you have the right to object to paying for union activities which are not legally considered to be germane to the union’s duties as a collective bargaining agent. If you object, the union will reduce your payment proportional to the percentage of the union’s total expenditures that are not legally considered germane to collective bargaining. For 2017, the union has determined that this reduced fee for non-members, known as the fair share fee, is equal to 78.10% of regular union dues. This rate was in effect through December 31, 2017. For 2018, the union has determined that this reduced fee for non-members, known as the fair share fee, is equal to 78.70% of regular union dues. This rate will be in effect through December 31, 2018.

The fair share fee amount has been calculated based on the union’s expenditures for collective bargaining, grievances and arbitrations, as well as other representational activities affecting the terms and conditions of employment, and excluding non-representational expenditures. We believe that all of the union’s expenditures benefit you. We therefore believe it is in your interest not to object. If you wish to object as described above, you must mail written notice of your objection to the Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, 1500 N. Second Street, Suite 12, Harrisburg, PA 17102. You should include your name, address, employer and work location. Your objection must be postmarked no later than thirty (30) days after the mailing of this notice in order to be valid. If you do not send such a letter, we will presume that you have no objection to being charged a fee equal to full membership dues. If the union receives an objection, you will be provided with financial information sufficient for you to assess whether the union has correctly calculated its fair share fee and on your rights to challenge such calculations.

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Making Change at the Ballot BoxNov. 2018 is a key election for working Pennsylvanians. Voters will head to the ballot box to elect our next Governor, US Senator, and legislators across the state. We need to make sure candidates running for office hear from us—healthcare professionals—about what we need to build our communities, support our families and create a healthcare system that puts patients ahead of profits.