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Wanda King, CNA with residentSince 1969, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania nursing home workers have stood up for dignity, rights, and respect for ourselves and for our residents. We know that to bring all long term care workers out of poverty, ensure affordable family health insurance, and provide quality care to our residents, we have to stand together.

By standing up to nursing home operators that too often put profit ahead of the needs of front-line workers and our residents,  we have made change. We fought for a "Nursing Home Workers' Bill of Rights" and a nursing home employers "Code of Conduct". We have won significant wage increases, fully paid health insurance and pensions, protections and the dignity and respect we deserve so we can provide the quality of care our residents need.


Mountain City Workers Join Other Extendicare Homes in SEIU Healthcare PA

Extendicare Mountain City Workers Form a Union with SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania

Workers at Extendicare Mountain City Celebrate Forming Their Union

On Wednesday, April 9th, close to 170 workers at Extendicare Mountain City chose to join SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania and be united with the hundreds of other Extendicare workers.

Cedarbrook Nurses Join SEIU Healthcare PA

Cedarbrook Nurses

Cedarbrook Nurses

Nearly 200 nurses at Cedarbrook Nursing Homes in Allentown and Fountain Hill voted by a landslide to join us in SEIU Healthcare. “This is an incredible victory not only for all the nurses at Cedarbrook but also for our residents. We now have one voice to advocate for improved care for our residents,” said Peggy Nye, LPN.

Nursing Home Workers Highlight Concerns Over Private Equity Takeover of Nation's Largest Chain

In the wake of Wednesday’s vote by shareholders of the nation’s largest nursing home chain HCR Manor Care to approve a $6.3 billion buyout of the company by global buyout giant The Carlyle Group, nursing home workers and their supporters traveled by caravan through Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland—arriving in DC yesterday at Carlyle Group headquarters—to express growing concern that the buyout may come at a high cost to seniors, taxpayers, and workers.